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

hi jonathan work on your free technique, SDK, and speed starts and turns too lift weights and get strong sprint and get fast get timed on 25's and 50's learn how to correctly split your 50's and 100's You've got a great frame not many swimmers are 6' 5" if you want to go 23.5 you need to split it 11.6 11.9 11.5 12.0 11.4 12.1 11.3 12.2 11.2 12.3 11.1 12.2 so train to get out in 10.9 from your start to your feet come home in 11.9 from your feet to your hand read and use the ideas in swim faster faster forums.usms.org/showthread.php Thanks Ande! Im going to follow your adviice my season starts this tuesday morning. Im so excited to get back in the water. I really Want to improove my 50m Free Style! I do it in 26s Right now. Best i done was high 25's Do you have any advice? Im 6'5 190lbs. 16, And im swimming for my high school team and i REALLY want to make state on the individual relay this year. I need to get to at least 23.50 to make it but i want to go down to at least 22s so i actually dont get last place in state! What should i do!? I have from This tuesday 5am in the morning till february 9th next year to make it! Ahh. Please Tell me if you got anything that can improove my free style. Id apreciate it Thats my breakthrough. I kick pretty fast. Im going to try counting my kicks now to see if im doing 6beat and im going to work on my SDK.. But i never used it before so ill tell you the results later if you got any tips just post it here and let me KNOW! Thanks!

hi jonathan work on your free technique, SDK, and speed starts and turns too lift weights and get strong sprint and get fast get timed on 25's and 50's learn how to correctly split your 50's and 100's You've got a great frame not many swimmers are 6' 5" if you want to go 23.5 you need to split it 11.6 11.9 11.5 12.0 11.4 12.1 11.3 12.2 11.2 12.3 11.1 12.2 so train to get out in 10.9 from your start to your feet come home in 11.9 from your feet to your hand read and use the ideas in swim faster faster forums.usms.org/showthread.php sweet thanks man, look i get cramps on my leg sometimes when i do sdk

Hi Ande, I just cannot improve my swim splits over the distance. I've been trying for 3 years now with very little improvement. I can swim a sub 30 sec. 50 yard and a sub 1 minute in a 100 yard but cannot hold it over longer distances. My best distance splits are: 500yds. = 6:18 1.5K = 22:19 1 mile = 23:56 2.4 mile = 1:03:50 I've been swimming 4x per week about 3,000-4,000 yards per day. Mostly sets like 20x100's w/15 sec rest and 10x200's w/20 sec rest and 4x500's w/30 sec rest. My 20x100's are average about 1:18 per, and that's the fastest I can go and still do 20 of them. I have good form in water. I think it may be my strength that's the issue, I'm 6'3 and 175lbs with broad shoulders with size 10.5 feet and normal size hands, (ie. large frame with normal size hands and feet.) Is it my size that is limiting me and strength issues? My main goal is to go sub 20 in 1.5K swim. What workouts or things should I be doing to get out of this rut? Thanks, Terry :notworking:

sweet thanks man, look i get cramps on my leg sometimes when i do sdk With that information, I would guess that you are kicking from the thighs and not from the hips. a good SDK involves the entre body, like a wave that starts small at the extended hands and ends large at the feet. Paul

With that information, I would guess that you are kicking from the thighs and not from the hips. a good SDK involves the entre body, like a wave that starts small at the extended hands and ends large at the feet. Paul THANKS PAUL! ur so right cause i got it on my thighs Im gonna work on using my entire body under water..

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?

depends different people do it different ways michael phelps has a long sweeping SDK Ian Crocker takes short fast kicks figure out what works best for you With that information, I would guess that you are kicking from the thighs and not from the hips. a good SDK involves the entre body, like a wave that starts small at the extended hands and ends large at the feet. Paul

all he did in practice is one fast 50 he got stronger and swam faster Did you feel like you worked hard and swam faster in practice to have dropped that much on ur 50?

depends different people do it different ways michael phelps has a long sweeping SDK Ian Crocker takes short fast kicks figure out what works best for you Im better with SDK .. / faster in my opinion at least from the walls. I am having problems with my butterfly anytips? i often get so tired and i lose balance alot..

part of it is strength and conditioning get stronger and swim faster part of it is technique, I can't offer corrections sight unseen i need to see you swim, put a vid of you swimming fly on youtube and give us the link ande Im better with SDK .. / faster in my opinion at least from the walls. I am having problems with my butterfly anytips? i often get so tired and i lose balance alot..