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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My 2005/2006 season was a disaster, I didn't improve any of the times I did at 2005 Nationals at the end of the previous season, partly due to getting sick a lot.
This year I decided to try the swim fast in meets by swimming fast in practice strategy, and to concentrate on getting faster in shorter distances, so I have been concentrating on the 50 and 100 in free and fly. I have also started going to the gym. I've swum in five meets this fall and improved my 100 free time in each one, in the last meet I took 3sec off my time from the meet the week before (2.5sec of my 2005 Nationals PB), which really surprised the heck out of me! I only hope that it wasn't a once in a lifetime swim! :eek: I've still got lots of specific things to work on. E.g. starts and turns and SDK. Luckily our coaches have been giving us more sprint stuff in workouts, but I still do a lot of "adjusting" to the sets we get to avoid one long medium intensity workout.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still relatively slow, but it is nice to be getting better again!
Thanks for all the tips and advice you've posted Ande! :notworthy:
My 2005/2006 season was a disaster, I didn't improve any of the times I did at 2005 Nationals at the end of the previous season, partly due to getting sick a lot.
This year I decided to try the swim fast in meets by swimming fast in practice strategy, and to concentrate on getting faster in shorter distances, so I have been concentrating on the 50 and 100 in free and fly. I have also started going to the gym. I've swum in five meets this fall and improved my 100 free time in each one, in the last meet I took 3sec off my time from the meet the week before (2.5sec of my 2005 Nationals PB), which really surprised the heck out of me! I only hope that it wasn't a once in a lifetime swim! :eek: I've still got lots of specific things to work on. E.g. starts and turns and SDK. Luckily our coaches have been giving us more sprint stuff in workouts, but I still do a lot of "adjusting" to the sets we get to avoid one long medium intensity workout.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still relatively slow, but it is nice to be getting better again!
Thanks for all the tips and advice you've posted Ande! :notworthy:
