Subject: RE: Swim training for continuous mile swim (no luck) everybody had good advice to offer,so I want to take a second to thank everyone for their time and input. I have been told in the past to try and breathe every other stoke instead of every third, but I figured it would butcher my form too bad since I started out with a very poor stoke doing every other .Now that I've got fairly good form going bilaterally, I know where I'm weak and what to watch for when it starts to fall apart. Knowing this, I tried breathing in 1 side ,every other stroke, and presto! I'm pumping out 100's with not that big of a problem.Still taking a 30 second breather in between, but Holy cow, just an improvement like that just breathed new life into my swim training motivation ! I watched some Tri's of the elites on Triathlonlive.tv and saw that even the elites breathe every other stroke (mainly because they are race pace of course) , but even still , I kick myself for being so stupid and not trying this sooner ! My form does fall off a little, but like I said earlier, I now know what part of the stroke is suffering, and I know what to work on. Thanks again everyone for your help ! For awhile I felt I was spinning my wheels going nowhere ! ICEMAN (I know it's pretty cocky to go with that name after only doing 1 TRI, but I own an ice company, so thats what everyone called me before I started in Triathlon) |