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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I just had a major swimming breakthrough in the 50 free at nationals, and I attribute it to two things: muscle mass from lifting heavy weights at low reps (weighted chin-ups, weighted dips, squats, and deadlifts), and race-specific training. The only swimming workouts I did were simply 1x50 freestyle all out. I dropped over a second (22 to 21) from nationals last year.
Did you feel like you worked hard and swam faster in practice to have dropped that much on ur 50?
I just had a major swimming breakthrough in the 50 free at nationals, and I attribute it to two things: muscle mass from lifting heavy weights at low reps (weighted chin-ups, weighted dips, squats, and deadlifts), and race-specific training. The only swimming workouts I did were simply 1x50 freestyle all out. I dropped over a second (22 to 21) from nationals last year.
Did you feel like you worked hard and swam faster in practice to have dropped that much on ur 50?
