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

there could be lots of reasons not warming up enough sometimes in practices you get on a roll and feel great could be poor splitting choices could be fatigue from previous races could be being effected by pressure and nervousness ande Why is it my technique falls to pieces out of practice? I've never had a race that ever felt great like some sets in practice have. I've begun to think it's my dive because it's such a change from the wall start you get used to in practice.

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 ... People have told me my stroke gets very shallow, but how do you control such a thing midrace? Is it simply controlling nerves and not psyching yourself out?

Concentrate on keeping your stroke long your intensity depends on how long your race is figure out what to concentrate on to do it correctly Ande People have told me my stroke gets very shallow, but how do you control such a thing midrace? Is it simply controlling nerves and not psyching yourself out?

Talking about break-throughs, I HAVE to share my today's experience with everyone, 'cause I have never been happier with my results since I started swimming. Congratulations to you, and keep up the good work!

doesn't anyone wanna break through? ande

I tend to work on my technique while in the pool and work on my conditioning on the land. Although if you only workout in the pool you should just break up your workout into two parts, one for technique and one for conditioning.

It's my first year swimming and right now my best times are 50 meter free (29.37) 100 meter free (106.24) 50 yard free (26.54) 100 yard free (59.43) I'm 16 a junior in highschool and just decided to start swimming this year with my school team. my stroke skill in order from best to worst would be like free, fly, ***, back I'm told i have a natural talent for swimming and have the body for it, I'm like 5'11 with real long arms. i'd loveee to keep improving my times but right now they've been pretty much staying the same. I don't really know whats wrong with my stroke, other than i dont really understand how my kick should be going its just kind of all over the place i know it needs work. also im not exactly sure I'm pulling correctly, how can i be sure? my coach says my finishes and starts need work but that should just come with practice. I'm in love with this sport and will definatley be swimming year round.

train hard work on speed lift weights read and use the ideas from swim faster faster you can go much faster than what you've been so far ande It's my first year swimming and right now my best times are 50 meter free (29.37) 100 meter free (106.24) 50 yard free (26.54) 100 yard free (59.43) I'm 16 a junior in highschool and just decided to start swimming this year with my school team. my stroke skill in order from best to worst would be like free, fly, ***, back I'm told i have a natural talent for swimming and have the body for it, I'm like 5'11 with real long arms. i'd loveee to keep improving my times but right now they've been pretty much staying the same. I don't really know whats wrong with my stroke, other than i dont really understand how my kick should be going its just kind of all over the place i know it needs work. also im not exactly sure I'm pulling correctly, how can i be sure? my coach says my finishes and starts need work but that should just come with practice. I'm in love with this sport and will definatley be swimming year round.

I understand what you meant, but you should try and drop that down to 1:15. 1:20 seems a bit slow if you are going :53 in meets - really you should be able to hold between 1:05 and 1:10, especially if you are a distance swimmer. Maybe, I'm off on that, but I'm basing this off of my times, and base 100 time and that of my teammates. I think you could definately be swimming 100's faster in practice. I can swim around that fast if not a bit faster than that in practice and I'm still not under 5 minutes.

true it helps to swim faster in practice I think you could definately be swimming 100's faster in practice. I can swim around that fast if not a bit faster than that in practice and I'm still not under 5 minutes.