What do YOU need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough?"

One topic of great interest to us all is "What do you need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough?" "What do you need to do to significantly improve your swimming times over one season?" Do you have any specific, nitty gritty type suggestions. I think it's really easy to fall into ruts, to just show up and go through the motions rather than seizing the moment while we train. Any one have any thoughts on what we need to do to significantly improve? forums.usms.org/showthread.php
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    Kyra, there may be some younger kids that you swim with but there may be kids in college there that are home for the summer. Swimming wise you are probably better off with a USS team, however, two a days are rough especially when you aren't used to them at all. You might not be able to get through the workouts for the first few weeks. However, you will get better faster with a USS team workingout twice a day than with a maters team. Does the masters team only have morning workouts? Perhaps you could go to a few sessions of both and see what you think. Also, since you are only 19 (Happy Birthday!) you will probably find more people closer to your age on the USS team. If you can I really recommend trying them both.
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  • Former Member
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    Kyra, there may be some younger kids that you swim with but there may be kids in college there that are home for the summer. Swimming wise you are probably better off with a USS team, however, two a days are rough especially when you aren't used to them at all. You might not be able to get through the workouts for the first few weeks. However, you will get better faster with a USS team workingout twice a day than with a maters team. Does the masters team only have morning workouts? Perhaps you could go to a few sessions of both and see what you think. Also, since you are only 19 (Happy Birthday!) you will probably find more people closer to your age on the USS team. If you can I really recommend trying them both.
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