Bigfuzzydoug's Ten Points to Swimming (Page 3)

Holy crap - I needed this thread a year ago.

Decided to do 14x100 of the catch-up drills today.  Timed myself for the warm up 100, then again on a final 100 (for the complete overall mile).  I was able to shave close to 25 seconds off the last 100.  That's almost 6 minutes per mile off a 1/2 mile swim if a continuous pace.

Not sure why I've been doing 1/2, 3/4, and 1 mile steady swims all this time.  I'm just happy I saw this last night.  GREAT advice. 

Just focus on one point at a time. Do 2 x 25 with lots of rest in between adn for each 25 focus on one and only one thing for that 25. on the way back, do that same focus for the other side of your body (if it's a right/left thing). Take a mental break and repeat for a different focus. Your first focus will (probably) fall away when you focus on thing #2, that's OK...just repeat focus #1 again on a different set.

By focusin gon only one thing your brain had the opportunity to begin rewiring it's signals to your body. It will take many, many repetitiosn to get the new ideas to "stick", so be patient and don't beat yourself up.

Glad to see this post bumped back up.  It got me started 2 years ago when I couldn't swim a lap.  I'll be doing my first Olympic distance next week.

Thanks again, BFD.

OH this is AWESOME! Even better...I read the info on my Nook!! ;-)

Definitely will put this to work ASAP. I have hit a plateau, and feels like something is amiss, and I just realized that my pull wasn't really pulling enough, and I wasn't gliding right. I can't wait to swim tomorrow!

I think this deserves to be a STICKY!!!!

Such great information!!!!  Thanks so much for this!

Another year, another bump for BFD.

I'm glad this got bumped.  I never saw it last sumer, and I think some of these drills can really benefit me and my swimming.

Thanks for the bump and thanks for the info BFD. 

AWESOME post.....I just started my TI swim lessons last week, and this was an awesome recap for what was discussed during my lessons. Prior to starting my lessons I had managed to work up to 800y swims, after starting my lessons, I cant swim for crap, as I'm spending all my time working on drills and basic form. the times when I did try full-stroke swimming, I couldn't do it, as the form isn't hardwired into my brain enough, but it was hardwired in just enough that I was able to know when i was doing something completely wrong. That awareness would cause me to reset to closer to proper form every time i deviated from good form. That constant reset and continue was just enough to keep me from getting any rhythm whatsoever.

The kayak analogy for constant motion i think is an even better than the one that was used for me, which was constant motion like a windmill.

Awesome!  Thanks so much.