Hello i am new here so a short introduction
I am 22 years old, short about 5'9" and currently 145 pounds. When i was younger and even shorter i always had the dream to swim competition.
It started at 15. I went to the pool as a loner. And just started swimming on a Wednesday afternoon, it was breaststroke i had o idea how to swim crawl. Next to me there was a club(in Europe its club's no schools,...) swimming next to me. Thy where all very close connected to each other and that was what i wanted. I was tired of having a lone childhood and started swimming more. I really fell in love on swimming and when summer came i started to work out my plan to enter competition and the club.
I started with swimming 5 hours a day mostly breaststroke,the mileage was little at first about 2 miles but it build out to 4. Then when the swimming was done usually the youth of the swimming club would come train. I would hide in the cafeteria and learn there technique.Soon i was doing all strokes. Also partially with the help of some masters who trained earlier in the day and where from an other club that was closed. 4 months after starting(still in summer vacation) i did a set with 2 of those swimmers of 1 x 800 in 12'00" that was my first big breakthrough. I socialized also a lot at the pool in august i was there from 4 - 9 in the pool. 5 hours and 8000 meters each training. My breaststroke improved most i was swimming sets of 1500 meter in 1'32-1'38". And swam 50 meter in 36". I stood 100 pounds then(gained good 5 pounds muscle at 5'4"; but i was a happy kid with a target get into competition and make palls) I even started dreaming about swimming from all the time in the pool. And as it belonged when the clock was almost 9 and the swimmers where gathering around the pool as public swimming was almost over i did my very best to get noticed. I swam 50 meter breaststroke under 40" and tried keeping it on.
now a jump 4 months later:
i was the happiest kid thee was , half of my target was reached. I could swim with the team the hard work (read 32 hour weeks in the pool had finally worked some). Now i was aloud to swim by one of the trainers with the team on Wednesday and Saturday. NOt when the other trainers saw me. Basically i was to slow and not officially member to the club. I didn't give a damn, my ego had increased about 600% and i totally forget i was small. most kids where 2-3 years younger then me and luckily for me the ones that where my age group are even now standing 5'9" as me to 6'.I made friends quickly so. Swam happily, went to see their meets and be the number one support. For me it was not abot the competition, basically to be someone in some group. Everything went well and i started getting a own target to swim under 1 minute for 100 crawl. I'd swim 4 hour sessions in the week nd after school if i was allowed from home I'd sit in the pool. For an hour.
again a small forward:
at 17, i still was not improving much in swimming basically i was over training all the time, i didn't know about lactate threshold i only knew to give it all... And my 100 meter pr was 1'15" in training.
Then sh*** happened (basically in swimming that was the only place i could make good friends honestly i am different then anyone else with an iq of 140 not even the nerds on school understood me, and i'd ight my enemy's and didn't do to well at school yes even a high iq does nt mean anything if you cant focus on learning. basically i went to another school thinking it would get better. There it became worse i got in huge fights, i got zero respect and my grades plumps further above that ther was less time to swim... I felt it i was loosing contact with the only love i had.
I quickly discovered another side, to make friends i started stealing, i made my own kinds of drugs( well stuff to get high) out of house hold(garage) stuff.I also usually spend some days away from home. And one day i was put in an institute where they held me locked. I fell in love there on another kid (she was 15 i was 17) and things improved quickly.I also started having my first romantic experiences, and exciting games then.
After about a year there i moved back to home(never to see my love again), and i just realized that swimming club entering was really hard. I pretty much gave up on my DREAM(swim in the club and compete), i told myself not talented enough, not good enough, to small,....
Since i still loved swimming i tried triathlon i basically saw that i had quiet some running talent. Without training id run 10th place on a local race. So i'd run once-twice a week and swim 3 times it worked out some. My biking was super poor as i didn't do any.Then it struck i got pains every where.Things got worse again. They gave me insoles did not help, then other insoles and they gave me more pain at other places. Yet i held on to triathlon. Even swimming started to hurt.
now-----
After 2 years of pain,And 2 triathlons i decided its enough. The past 2 years did nothing to my life but complain, andi only would go to two doctors. This summer its time TO ENJOY LIFE ONCE MORE.
*I'll go to every doctor for the next 6 months until its fixed even if it means surgery to screw my foot(literally).So overpronation stops.
*I'll stop focusing on he excuse triathlon.
*I will work hard again to get in the club and if needed with all internet help available. I'll teach myself on how to train, how the body works.
*I'll compete hell I'll break a club record even if I'm not talented.
*I will gain muscle to swim, stop running (was 3 times weekly before) and do cross training as lifting weights to gain weight and bike some on the ergo meter to improve my heart power. I already read about vo2max and stuff. And my targets outside of swimming to swim better are:
weight: 165-180 pounds pure muscle
height: 7' damn cant change that well ... 5'9" then :(
conditioning outside swimming:
Get to 5-5.5 watt/kg(at my future weight) on the ergo meter(i have a ergo meter at home) vs my 4 watt/kg now At only 145 pounds. And hold that for 5 - 10 minutes. And as far as strength goes bench press 220 pounds 10 reps.
health problems: cure them(currently walking, ergo meter hurts)
* get my personality back, in the team and on my family i was actually like 200% social, i used my apartness in way of thinking as attribute.And was optimist all the way...(the years have changed me some) but i'm back on my way...
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Sorry for the loonnngg explanation. But so you guys know who i am(my motivation). And what i am after.
I now know what anaerobic threshold,vo2max etc means....
But to :fish2:better ???
Here are already some questions i started working on my targets since 3 weeks. The months before i swam zero km's(3 months befrore i swam 3x weekly). I swim in a 25 meter pool mostly on my own.
What kind of kilometers would you advice me ?
(now i'm at 12 km/week and current pb's are back at 1'15" crawl, breaststroke 50 is 40" but my feet overpronate even when swimming, so my breaststroke is off, my 1500 max is about 23')
Any advice on sets, speed and recovery so i wont over train, so speed etc. I want to train smarter now.:dunno:
I have zero speed so i'll focus o the 400 meter
the records of my club are: 400 IM 4'53", 400 free 4'08" damn this one seems impossible, and 800 meter free:9'05".
I'll hunt these as if it where Olympics.Probably i wont reach them but hey nothing wrong with trying.whether 5'nothing or super size 7.:wine:
