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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 --
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  • I've written alot about this topic Done a lot of speed training If you REALLY want to improve your speed here's the areas to work on 1) Technique: there's an optimal way to position and move your body to go the fastest through the water start, dive, streamline SDK break out swimming turns touch in a 50 free how much time do you spend doing the start dive & SDK? how much distance do you cover? how much time of each practice do you spend working on your start dive & SDK? 2) Swimming most swimming programs don't focus on developing maximum speed Really work to improve how fast you can swim and SDK 3) Body Characteristics shape: fast swimmers tend to be lean and powerful strength: stronger swimmers are faster flexibility 4. Equipment now more than ever the equipment you use matters. Swimmers need to test out different suits to figure out what works best 5. Mental goals plans action self image IPS = Ideal Performance State, being psyched mental toughness, pain tolerance correct splitting / effort allocation 1st & 2nd 25's of a 50 should be with in 0.25 - 0.50 for me to swim faster I need to: 1) get stronger 2) lose 15 - 25 lbs & 3) swim faster in practice & 4) Correctly split my races Amaury Leveaux's WR SCM 50m FR vinovo.magnify.net/.../Amaury-Leveaux-World-Record-50m Milorad Cavic's 100 fl outstanding SDK vinovo.magnify.net/.../Milorad-Cavic-Gold-medal-100m-b Amaury LEVEAUX's 44.94 - New World Record www.youtube.com/watch think about how much time and distance in a 50 free is spent on Start, Dive, Streamline & SDK vs swimming freestyle How much of your training is spent working on those skills?
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  • I've written alot about this topic Done a lot of speed training If you REALLY want to improve your speed here's the areas to work on 1) Technique: there's an optimal way to position and move your body to go the fastest through the water start, dive, streamline SDK break out swimming turns touch in a 50 free how much time do you spend doing the start dive & SDK? how much distance do you cover? how much time of each practice do you spend working on your start dive & SDK? 2) Swimming most swimming programs don't focus on developing maximum speed Really work to improve how fast you can swim and SDK 3) Body Characteristics shape: fast swimmers tend to be lean and powerful strength: stronger swimmers are faster flexibility 4. Equipment now more than ever the equipment you use matters. Swimmers need to test out different suits to figure out what works best 5. Mental goals plans action self image IPS = Ideal Performance State, being psyched mental toughness, pain tolerance correct splitting / effort allocation 1st & 2nd 25's of a 50 should be with in 0.25 - 0.50 for me to swim faster I need to: 1) get stronger 2) lose 15 - 25 lbs & 3) swim faster in practice & 4) Correctly split my races Amaury Leveaux's WR SCM 50m FR vinovo.magnify.net/.../Amaury-Leveaux-World-Record-50m Milorad Cavic's 100 fl outstanding SDK vinovo.magnify.net/.../Milorad-Cavic-Gold-medal-100m-b Amaury LEVEAUX's 44.94 - New World Record www.youtube.com/watch think about how much time and distance in a 50 free is spent on Start, Dive, Streamline & SDK vs swimming freestyle How much of your training is spent working on those skills?
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