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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  • I've been told you swim in meets how you swim when you are tired. You might trying to increase your stroke rate too much, you might now be used to racing ... how much race pace work are you doing in practice? The difference of the dive shouldn't matter for more than a few seconds, anything after the first 15 it should feel the same ...
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  • I've been told you swim in meets how you swim when you are tired. You might trying to increase your stroke rate too much, you might now be used to racing ... how much race pace work are you doing in practice? The difference of the dive shouldn't matter for more than a few seconds, anything after the first 15 it should feel the same ...
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