I keep recovering from last week's disappointment in the pool. It seems like I have to keep harping on the same topics when it comes to my swimming, but I have most of the difficulties when my form breaks down in the most fundamental ways. There were two things that came out of this morning's swim:
1) I may need to look into going with a smaller size of paddle, at least for a short time. I'm finding that my left side isn't getting the same amount of work as the right. Watching my hands, I've noticed that I don't do a complete catch with my left arm (forearm is short of vertical), and I'm "slipping" the paddle to make it easier. This is not a good habit to develop, so if I get a chance to hit the store this weekend, I may look into a set of paddles a size or two down.
2) Whenever I try to go hard, or start to get tired, my form slips, and I have to work twice as hard to overcome the giant brake my body turns into. Between 50-70m into my last sprint, my pull had shortened, which cost me body-roll, which caused my hands to cross over in front, and everything was a pile of suck, and I was killing myself out of breath. I yelled at myself to get it together, forced myself to widen my entry and finish the pull, which got me to roll again, and I sped up and felt less tress. It seems so easy, but I continue to have issues with maintaining the basics of good form under duress. I guess I'll need a few thousand more metres to get all this together again.
Swim: w/u - 200m each free, non-free, pull
4x100 as 50 scull/50 pull, 10"
500 as 12.5 head-up/87.5 free, 1'
200 ez non-free
3x200 pull w/paddles, 30"
2x(300 3-person drafting, 30"
100 ez non-free, 30")
4x100, 15", as 1) 25 sprint/75 ez, 2) 50 sprint/50 ez, 3) 25 sprint/75 ez, 4) all-out (1:39)
c/d - 100 ez non-free
Total: 3600m
Weights:
Chaosbringer - 2x4/65
Chins - 2x10,9
Reverse flye/Lateral raise - 2x8,9/15
Side plank w/abduction - 2x10,12
Supermans - 2x12,12
Reverse curl - 1x13/43
Diamond pushup - 1x14/20
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