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What do YOU need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough?"

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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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  • hey chris, you'll find parachutes are a drag good luck look forward to reading your reports ande I've decided I need better top-end speed and "easy speed" so I can get out faster on 100s. (I'm not really that interested in 50s for their own sake.) Posters like Ande and Jazz have had great success with this, but I'm not going to follow their philosophy exactly mostly because I want to keep my endurance for 200s and the 500 free. So my plan is going to center around resistance training in the water. I bought one of those adjustable swimming parachutes and will use it at the end of practice on days that I don't lift. I plan on doing 25s mostly, perhaps some broken 50s, with the chute to work on power/explosiveness and SDK speed. At least, that's the initial plan -- I haven't even used the device yet. I'd be curious about others' experience with this equipment. I'll share my own thoughts as I use it.
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  • hey chris, you'll find parachutes are a drag good luck look forward to reading your reports ande I've decided I need better top-end speed and "easy speed" so I can get out faster on 100s. (I'm not really that interested in 50s for their own sake.) Posters like Ande and Jazz have had great success with this, but I'm not going to follow their philosophy exactly mostly because I want to keep my endurance for 200s and the 500 free. So my plan is going to center around resistance training in the water. I bought one of those adjustable swimming parachutes and will use it at the end of practice on days that I don't lift. I plan on doing 25s mostly, perhaps some broken 50s, with the chute to work on power/explosiveness and SDK speed. At least, that's the initial plan -- I haven't even used the device yet. I'd be curious about others' experience with this equipment. I'll share my own thoughts as I use it.
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