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How to improve in swim? (Especially 50 Free)?

  • Hi :) i'm a 50 free sprinter and I really want to swim for college so I need to improve my times and get those big cuts. Here's a little background: -I'm 15 -Learned how to swim August 15, 2011. (how to breath, float, all 4 strokes, flip turns, dives, etc...I died.) -Swam on high school until early October when my dad kicked me off the team because of my un-asian grades right before divisions, conferences and states, so I never got the chance to try to finish getting my state cut this year. -In the 50 free, I went from a 37.9 (week 3) to a 26.4 (last day before dad kicked me off) -I got back on a club team, and i've been on for 5 weeks now. It felt like I was starting all over again when I got back, it still kind of sucks right now.. -I am NOT a distance swimmer at all, and my strokes are still a little messy, but they're getting there.. -Practices are 6 days a week, minimum 3 hours a day. -Backstroke is my worst stroke. I don't do it right. Pretty much, I can't do it :P So don't give me any back sets lol -Breaststroke isn't terrible, and it's not great, so I guess it's in the middle. It's my 2nd worst stroke. Please don't make any breast drills either! -Fly is my favorite stroke but I hate swimming it, if that makes sense.. (free is still my best, though.) -I can do dolphin kick, but after I dive in or kick off the wall, I feel out of breath almost immediately and I feel like I'm going to slow. I don't know what it is.. I feel like I could go faster if I dolphin kick off instead of flutter kicking :( Oh yeah, I run in the spring time (track) and i'm a 100 sprinter, 200 sprinter, and a 300 hurdler. Which means I won't have time to swim during the spring time, (March-June) bad idea, I know, i'm gonna die when I get back to swim. But I love track and I hope to run in college too :) Are there any drills, tips, techniques, sets, etc.. that can help me do this? I'm aiming for 24s. by the end of my senior year, right now i'm a sophomore. Thanks in advance :)

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    If all you say is true, you have amazing potential. If you managed to get to a 26 after swimming for a total of 4 months, then the best advice I have is to keep doing what you are doing. Anything a stranger on Y!A tells you to do probably is not as good as the coaching you have already been receiving.

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WOW! I've been swimming for 5 years and my 50m free PB is 36 seconds! Are you aware that you are better than you think? Anyways besides that, just keep swimming and you will eventually get better. Watch how the pros do it and learn from them. Ask your coach questions. Watch friends swim, get advice from them. Etc, In other words, just get involved the most in swimming that you can.

Get yourself a swimming coach. Improve your grades. Don't eat junk food. When you do the crawl/freestyle make sure your hands very flat and sharp so they can sorta of "dive" into the water like a fin. Don't let the wrist bend much either. Another fault a lot of free style swimmers do is not bend the arm and will swing their arm over straight and flop it into the water. Another thing to do is to get videos of champion swimmers and watch and make lots of notes. You need to swim year round even when you do track. It improves your breathing, speed, accuracy and endurance not only in swimming but also in track. Keep in mind that if you wreck your ankles or knees or even your arms/hands in track you will ruin your swimming. To improve your kicking power you need to hold on to the edge of the pool and kick while faced down to the bottom of the pool hard and over and over. Then turn around and do it that way over and over. Then do the lanes. The power warm up really boosts the lane power. A swimming coach is the best to get. I swam from the time I was three years old (family had a pool) and my dad got me a swim coach when I was a teen to correct some bad swimming habits and it really paid off. I only had to have two coaching times to correct them. Good Luck from a swimming racer of high school a long time ago. Your timing is very good.

Peggy

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