CeeGee90 wrote:
Slowtwitchers, I am stuck in the 1:30/100y-1:40/100y purgatory of swimming. Doing anything above 200y at 1:2x/100y is a challenge. I work with coach but in general his motto is: you have good technique, just need to swim more. I'd like to hear from you what single "switch" or "transformation" you did in your technique that you attribute to providing the most gains in the water. Thanks in advance!
Your coach is way way off base.
Yes, of course, you need to swim a lot to develop fitness and aquatic power. But with bad technique, you're basically only going to make things worse.
A good cycling analogy:
Imagine if you bike a huge amount and soon, with long and extended smart training, you develop Lance-like cycling power output. But every time you get on your bike, you're forced to connect a literal large parachute to the back of your bike. It doesn't matter how strong you get, even grandmas on 3-speeds will be beating you with you having to pull that high-drag parachute. And the faster you try to go, the parachute will only pull you back harder.
THIS is what bad technique does to you in swimming.
For me, the way I moved from back-of-the-pack swimmer to front-of- the-pack swimmer is that I got lots and lots of great technique help from smart coaches (
not ones that said that the solution was to "just swim more"). So how do you find and select such a coach? Well, here are some ideas:
https://www.darkspeedworks.com/blog-swimcoach.htm
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