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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congratulations!
Ande
Originally posted by gull80
Don't know if this will result in a breakthrough, but I'm finally (after 2 years) able to swim (no pull buoy) descending sets of 400s, 300s and 200s. Why is that? I credit the following, in no particular order:
Healthy (relatively) shoulder
Training partner of similar ability
Coached workouts 3 days/wk with the Masters team
Coached workouts with the age groupers 3 days/wk during the summer
Dry land work
Stroke improvement, including a change from a 2 beat to a four beat kick (and for the first time able to kick 50s on 1:00--no fins, no board).
My new goal (among others) is to swim faster at 50 than in my 40s (inspired by Tom Wolf).
congratulations!
Ande
Originally posted by gull80
Don't know if this will result in a breakthrough, but I'm finally (after 2 years) able to swim (no pull buoy) descending sets of 400s, 300s and 200s. Why is that? I credit the following, in no particular order:
Healthy (relatively) shoulder
Training partner of similar ability
Coached workouts 3 days/wk with the Masters team
Coached workouts with the age groupers 3 days/wk during the summer
Dry land work
Stroke improvement, including a change from a 2 beat to a four beat kick (and for the first time able to kick 50s on 1:00--no fins, no board).
My new goal (among others) is to swim faster at 50 than in my 40s (inspired by Tom Wolf).
