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
you were 22 point what?
you went 21 point what?
How old are you?
did you do any warm up or warm down?
You don't have to do much yardage to swim a fast 50
Stronger muscles and great body shape lead to faster swimming
though there comes a point of diminishing returns in the
swimming speed vs strength vs muscle mass formula
otherwise taken to the extreme, body builders would be the fastest swimmers and they are not
that type of training defies conventional thinking.
did you do any other events?
So many questions!
I only did relays last year, and I think my best split was 22.1.
This year I went 20.94 on a relay and 21.59 in the individual.
I'm 21 years old.
I swam the medley relay on Saturday afternoon, and the 50 free Sunday morning. I warmed up a little bit on Saturday morning, mostly practicing starts because my pool doesn't have any starting blocks. After that I just did my races without warming up.
I only did the 50 free because it's the one event I really love to do.
You may be right about diminishing returns. I plan to keep lifting and hopefully gaining muscle until it no longer helps me. I also want to find a way to practice my starts more, because they were definitely the worst part of my races.
congratulations
you were 22 point what?
you went 21 point what?
How old are you?
did you do any warm up or warm down?
You don't have to do much yardage to swim a fast 50
Stronger muscles and great body shape lead to faster swimming
though there comes a point of diminishing returns in the
swimming speed vs strength vs muscle mass formula
otherwise taken to the extreme, body builders would be the fastest swimmers and they are not
that type of training defies conventional thinking.
did you do any other events?
So many questions!
I only did relays last year, and I think my best split was 22.1.
This year I went 20.94 on a relay and 21.59 in the individual.
I'm 21 years old.
I swam the medley relay on Saturday afternoon, and the 50 free Sunday morning. I warmed up a little bit on Saturday morning, mostly practicing starts because my pool doesn't have any starting blocks. After that I just did my races without warming up.
I only did the 50 free because it's the one event I really love to do.
You may be right about diminishing returns. I plan to keep lifting and hopefully gaining muscle until it no longer helps me. I also want to find a way to practice my starts more, because they were definitely the worst part of my races.
