Cesar Cielo is fastest swimmer in the world -- 25 yards in 8.88 to the foot -- he was just trying to "maintain" on the second 25...
There are 3 ways to swim faster in any given race:
1) Improve your technique -- if you become more effecient in your technique, your times will drop across the board
2) Maintain a pace as close as possible to maximum speed -- You can hold your maximum speed for 6-8 seconds. There are no swim races of that length - so when training for any swimming race (50 up the mile), you are trying to maintain a pace as close to your maximum speed as possible.
3) Get Faster = improve your maximum speed
I would say on average, Masters swimmers (and age-groupers) spend their in the water workout season according to the following breakdown (rough guess):
1) Improving technique = 20-30%
2) Maintaining close to max = 65-79%
3) Improving Max Speed = 1-5%
Think about it -- if you swim 4-5 times per week, that equals about 20 hours a month. Did you spend more than a full hour in October on maximum speed ?
This Thread is all about Category 3 -- Improving your Max Speed --
PWB, how's that USA-S registration thing going?
If sprinting you want - you shall receive!
Look up the Lost Dutchman meet. They offer the 4 50's, I think. It's right there at Cactus something or other pool in Chandler. Not too much of an investment of traveling plus I recommend blowing off finals. It's usually some time in mid Feb, so very complementary with USMS schedule.
You could do this meet like a fast workout!
Michelle,
I haven't registered yet, but am contemplating a couple of events next spring/summer:
Grand Prix in Austin -- I gotta see if I can swing a business trip to Austin around this time and squeeze in an event or two.
Swimming World Cactus Classic LCM over Memorial Day @ ASU -- I'm going to post the meet flyer soon to the events forum to try to get some Masters' folks here, especially all of those guys who are bemoaning the loss of mens' college swimming. The meet directors / teams are working on arranging part of each entry fee to be donated to the foundation to save ASU Men's swimming.
He's "resting up" after Zones even though the lazy sprinters are back in the pool.
I'd rather think of it that my years of exceedingly exhausting distance workouts have left me with a "vacation deficit" that desperately needs to be balanced. Don't worry, though, am hitting weights/core on Monday and back in the pool on Tuesday.
PWB, how's that USA-S registration thing going?
If sprinting you want - you shall receive!
Look up the Lost Dutchman meet. They offer the 4 50's, I think. It's right there at Cactus something or other pool in Chandler. Not too much of an investment of traveling plus I recommend blowing off finals. It's usually some time in mid Feb, so very complementary with USMS schedule.
You could do this meet like a fast workout!
Michelle,
I haven't registered yet, but am contemplating a couple of events next spring/summer:
Grand Prix in Austin -- I gotta see if I can swing a business trip to Austin around this time and squeeze in an event or two.
Swimming World Cactus Classic LCM over Memorial Day @ ASU -- I'm going to post the meet flyer soon to the events forum to try to get some Masters' folks here, especially all of those guys who are bemoaning the loss of mens' college swimming. The meet directors / teams are working on arranging part of each entry fee to be donated to the foundation to save ASU Men's swimming.
He's "resting up" after Zones even though the lazy sprinters are back in the pool.
I'd rather think of it that my years of exceedingly exhausting distance workouts have left me with a "vacation deficit" that desperately needs to be balanced. Don't worry, though, am hitting weights/core on Monday and back in the pool on Tuesday.
