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?
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it should make a big difference for you
please let me know how your kicking project is going
ande
Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming
I think I wrote about the above break-through I had like a month ago and I could not even think that I would have another so soon.I got down my stroke count per 25m to 12(warm-up)-14(200m free pace) now.I am so happy.I am sure the times improved but I am not rushing to check, I think I will wait till that becomes second nature so that I do not mess up that feeling by trying to go faster and hence not paying attention to the technique.What I think helped me this time was the following:
1)I started very intense stretching (I want to be able to do the splits, I used to do them at 15 last);
2)I worked on the coordination of my hip rotation and the kick, that I decided to do when I sawthe underwater video of Klete Keller, his hip rotation is amazing.So I engraved Keller's way of swimming in my head and was trying to simulate it...I think it is working.
Just 3 months ago I could not cover 25 m. with less than 15 strokes
it should make a big difference for you
please let me know how your kicking project is going
ande
Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming
I think I wrote about the above break-through I had like a month ago and I could not even think that I would have another so soon.I got down my stroke count per 25m to 12(warm-up)-14(200m free pace) now.I am so happy.I am sure the times improved but I am not rushing to check, I think I will wait till that becomes second nature so that I do not mess up that feeling by trying to go faster and hence not paying attention to the technique.What I think helped me this time was the following:
1)I started very intense stretching (I want to be able to do the splits, I used to do them at 15 last);
2)I worked on the coordination of my hip rotation and the kick, that I decided to do when I sawthe underwater video of Klete Keller, his hip rotation is amazing.So I engraved Keller's way of swimming in my head and was trying to simulate it...I think it is working.
Just 3 months ago I could not cover 25 m. with less than 15 strokes
