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

Nah, I'm content with being mediocre ... ;)

Originally posted by ande anyone else out there want to make a major swimming breakthrough? Ande yap, I would. I had my "final" meet yesterday and I was pretty disappointed with it. Two weeks ago I swam the 50br in 35.72 as a part of a relay. Unfortunatley that doesn't count for the ranking as a breaststroker. So I wanted to swim a 35 in this meet, but I only made a 36.80. But I'll see the positiv things. It was about 0.02 faster than the actual time I'm listed with in the ranking. I felt less pain and burning in my arms during and after the race. Seems like my lactat tolerance training the last two weeks worked despite what my coach thinks about it :D I'm currently planning my training for this summer. In about 3 weeks I'll have time to concentrate more on my training and in August I'll have 6 weeks off so I can train as hard as I want (And I want to train as hard as possible). By the end of the year I hopefully go the 50br in 34.

Originally posted by ande Isn't there anyone else here who wants to make a MAJOR swimming BREAKTHROUGH? Post a question, I wanna help YOU SWIM FASTER FASTER. Ande Ande: OK, I want to do it: I am thinking on making a succesfull participation on the World Master Championship 2006 at SF, since I am going to take my family and some friends to go along. This is a two days trip driving from Mexico City. I am 38 years old now but I will be competing at the 40-45 year group by then as I turn 40 on mid June. I have been a master swimmer since 13 years ago, and I never practiced swimming before that. I am thinking to enter the next events and I am including my actual times: 50 meters free (29 high) 100 meters free (1:06 low) 200 meters free (2:28) 50 meters Backstroke (36 high) 100 meters Backstroke (1:20) 50 meters Fly (31 high) I have only an hour available to train from Tuesday to Friday, plus all morning on Saturdays and Sundays most of the times (though I just take two hours right now at those days). I would love to drop my times by around four seconds for the 100 meters (1:02 or better) and so on for the rest of the events. I am going to participate on the Mexican Nationals LCM in August where I am specting to see my first improvements. What would it be your advice?... thanks in advance.

Originally posted by ande anyone else out there want to make a major swimming breakthrough? I am always searching to make a breakthrough. I'd love suggestions!

great my advice to you is to Start training, hard and fast focus on the 100 free work on increasing your speed, do 12.5, 25, and 50 sprints with plenty of rest, to go 1:02 in the 100 you need to be able to go 27 in the 50 work on correctly splitting your 100 to go 1:02, you should split it 30, 32 that first 30 should feel pretty easy. why not train to break 1:00 in the 100 free? how tall are you? how much do you weigh? are you lifting weights? ande Originally posted by Alex Ande: OK, I want to do it: I am thinking on making a succesfull participation on the World Master Championship 2006 at SF, since I am going to take my family and some friends to go along. This is a two days trip driving from Mexico City. I am 38 years old now but I will be competing at the 40-45 year group by then as I turn 40 on mid June. I have been a master swimmer since 13 years ago, and I never practiced swimming before that. I am thinking to enter the next events and I am including my actual times: 50 meters free (29 high) 100 meters free (1:06 low) 200 meters free (2:28) 50 meters Backstroke (36 high) 100 meters Backstroke (1:20) 50 meters Fly (31 high) I have only an hour available to train from Tuesday to Friday, plus all morning on Saturdays and Sundays most of the times (though I just take two hours right now at those days). I would love to drop my times by around four seconds for the 100 meters (1:02 or better) and so on for the rest of the events. I am going to participate on the Mexican Nationals LCM in August where I am specting to see my first improvements. What would it be your advice?... thanks in advance.

Originally posted by ande how tall are you? how much do you weigh? are you lifting weights? ande Ande: Thanks for your tips, now: I am not very tall: 5' 8" Neither fat: 150 pounds And I am not lifting weights but I would if needed. Alex

you're better off swimming each day but monday and just doing push ups, sit ups, pull ups, and jumps for exercise. i would sacrifice two training sessions a week Ande Originally posted by Alex I will start lifting weights right away, but as I only have an hour a day I guess I have to swim Tus, Thurs, Sat and Sun & lift weights Wedn. and Fridays. (Mondays the club closes) What do you think?? I will also ask my coach her recomendation, though there is a new coach in our master team since the older retired for other activities (he did not make enough money for his needs), and the new one is preatty young and I don´t think she knows much. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by ande where are you now how have you been training where do you hope to be I think I will give it a try. Since I set my new goals according to your swim faster faster tip, I will propably need a lot of help on my way there. So, where am I now? Currently, I am at a 35.72 PB for the 50br but it seems as I could only reproduce 36.80-36.83 if I try hard. When I swam the 35, I was totaly in my mental "zone" swimming like in trance. How am I training? Currently I am training 4-5 times a week. Next monday I will start a high intensive 18 weeks calisthenics/running schedule for dryland training. In the summer I will also spend 6 weeks with a intensive weight training schedule. Where do I hope to be? Well, the big goal is to make national squad times by 2008. This would mean with a look at the age group I will be in by 2008 that I have to swim that 50br in around 28 secs. To make it more realistic and more motivating I broke it down into several goals having one for the end of each year. This means I will swim a 34 by the end of this year, a 32 by the end of next year, a 30 by the end of 2007 and then finaly a 28 by the end of 2008. I hope you can give me some help with this. My swim buddy whom I told this thinks I am crazy (if he hasn't thought that before) and also offered me a vacation at his expense. One more reasons to make it till 2008. As the mental thing now is set and for me, there is no doubt I will make the times of my dream when I want to swim them, the hard work starts.

Originally posted by ande If you were stronger you would probably swim faster weight training is important for sprinters ande I will start lifting weights right away, but as I only have an hour a day I guess I have to swim Tus, Thurs, Sat and Sun & lift weights Wedn. and Fridays. (Mondays the club closes) What do you think?? I will also ask my coach her recomendation, though there is a new coach in our master team since the older retired for other activities (he did not make enough money for his needs), and the new one is preatty young and I don´t think she knows much. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by ande this is kind of vague, i need specifics on your situation to give you good suggestions where are you now how have you been training where do you hope to be the more info the better ande Ande- I sent you a PM with some specifics. Your tips are great and I appreciate any and all input!! Suzanne