Smooth is fast!Ģ) Speed depends on two variables: your stroke length, or how many strokes it takes you to swim one length (SPL), and your stroke rate (SR). You will gain far more speed doing this than you will by focusing on fitness and working "hard" at your swimming. To get faster, here are a few ideas:ġ) Make practicing technique (balance, streamline, precise body positions and motions, smoothness, lack of splashing, etc) your main priority. Welcome-sounds like you're off to a good start judging from your times. Other than losing some weight (250lb and being obese is great for buoyancy but not for speed!) are there any suggestions on what distances/practises I should be concentrating on pursuing to improve my overall time for the mile?Īre there any suggestions on what distances/practises I should be concentrating on pursuing to improve my overall time for the mile? My best times, all set in the last fortnight, are below Since switching to sprinting my mile times have come down a lot in the last few months.īut I think I can do better in some areas to get the speed up. I followed advice to switch to sprint practise to get my overall speed up, and so I only swim the mile (1600m) once-a-week. I used to try to swim a mile every day but my times didn't lower and I just ended-up tired. Sometimes though I just do my favourite routine: 1 x 800m, 1 x 400m, 1 x 200m, 1 x 100m 1 x 50m and these invariably produce new PB's, sometimes 2 in the same session. I'm working on them, but I normally swim in busy lanes at a public pool so I'll probably never be able to use them.Īs well as the exercises I do swim sets of short sprints. I don't do tumble-turns (or 'flip-turns' as you call them in the US). For a mile I swim 64 lengths and just ignore the additional 9 metres to make a proper 1609m mile! I use a Poolmate lap counter watch and swim in a 25 metre pool. Never a swimmer even at school but I adopted TI since February 2014 and whilst before I would nearly black-out after 2 lengths of front crawl, I can do a mile now without any bother at all. I'm 52 years old, 5'11" and weigh just over 250lb. Just this week I managed to knock off 60 secs off my personal best (wearing jammers instead of shorts helped!) My first posting here, so a little about myself and a question.
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