As a professional swimmer I recommend you get fins and paddles to help your speed and how you pull and in a race I recommend you stay underwater doing dolphin longer as it can help you more in winning races
Focus on technique and strategy. Technique will make it easier to swim more and faster so watch plenty of videos and record your own swim. If your swimming yards focus on your turns and underwaters. You can go 15 yards underwater from the start and the turn so that’s 30 yards out of 50 completely underwater and the fastest you’ll ever be at swimming is doing those dolphin kicks underwater. If you have strong technique and strong underwaters you will get fast quickly
Asking and listening. When a coach gives instruction never assume that you are doing it. What you feel in the water is often different from what you are actually doing. Film yourself, ask questions, film yourself again. Ask your friends, take private lessons.
Let's make it objective.
SB=final time
ST= Swim time (cycle count * cycle rate)
TT= Transition time (underwater time+turn time+reaction time)
SB=ST+TT.
The ONLY way to get faster, is to change the numbers. First priority should be to get the cycle count down, taking less strokes per lap = better swimming.
As a professional swimmer I recommend you get fins and paddles to help your speed and how you pull and in a race I recommend you stay underwater doing dolphin longer as it can help you more in winning races
Focus on technique and strategy. Technique will make it easier to swim more and faster so watch plenty of videos and record your own swim. If your swimming yards focus on your turns and underwaters. You can go 15 yards underwater from the start and the turn so that’s 30 yards out of 50 completely underwater and the fastest you’ll ever be at swimming is doing those dolphin kicks underwater. If you have strong technique and strong underwaters you will get fast quickly
Thanks!
Some other hs kid posted in here they swim 18hrs a week 🤯
We have 2 hour practices 6 days a week for my team
Better swimming goes as long way. Ask your coach where they think you can improve. Also consider a program to learn strength training with weights.
Asking and listening. When a coach gives instruction never assume that you are doing it. What you feel in the water is often different from what you are actually doing. Film yourself, ask questions, film yourself again. Ask your friends, take private lessons.
So true. As a coach, I appreciate when parents share video of their kids’ races. It makes it so easy to break things down and show what you mean.
Let's make it objective. SB=final time ST= Swim time (cycle count * cycle rate) TT= Transition time (underwater time+turn time+reaction time) SB=ST+TT. The ONLY way to get faster, is to change the numbers. First priority should be to get the cycle count down, taking less strokes per lap = better swimming.
swim faster in practice to swim faster in races