GoSwim Gold
Print this entrySwimming Question of the Week - January 6, 2009
What will you be focusing mostly on for 2009? Technique or fitness.
Click here to enter your vote in our survey, then comment below
Responses
|
One can never leave the technique behind...but my focus will be on fitness. |
|
|
hm, that's always a difficult question becasue I'm kind of "I cannot swim, so teach/show me EVERYTHING!" - swimmer. My coach says I must work more on my endurance, and I will do so... almost... I'll just add, again, some "hoverhours" in the pool for my technique. When I am experimenting I like to do so alone and then discuss it with my coach. Otherwise I get nervous and mess up haha :D |
|
|
I'm with you guys... it's fitness for me too. Is 47 too late to lose baby fat? |
|
|
it's never too late for that glenn :) |
|
|
Technique is a given. It's hard to NOT think about that. What I have to remind myself to allow time for is dryland strength. The two together equal fitness. |
|
|
Woo Hoo!!!! Thanks for the encouragement sprinter. :) |
|
|
Fitness, including core strength. And trying to stay cool enough to workout in an overheated pool, any suggestions? Right now anything over a 100m is out of the question, just too hot. I swim 100 then cool off by standing up into the cool air (it's 0 degrees F outside the building). But I have a goal -- Colorado State Masters meet. |
|
|
Now I have to shake off the holiday feasting and drinking and get back into technical shape. When the water no longer feels like I'm swimming in pudding I know I getting it back. You can't have one without the other.Technic and conditioning are the yin and yang in swimming.
|
|
|
My main aim is fitness and technique. My dry workout is very good but need develop a explosive power etc Also need to learn about speed and flexiblity as well - I wanna be same level as Phelps which is not easy but I try my best. |
|
|
I enjoy technique, and i work much time in it, however i need make up fitness. |
|
|
As a begginer to the swimming world I will focus on technique |
|
|
Having changed my coach recently, I think it will mostly be technique for a while. But at a certain level fitness is always an important point. |
|
|
I learned to swim a long time ago - -the good old Red Cross s-stroke. So while I'm in good shape again - finally -- I think this year my focus will definitely be on technique. I figure the only way to get faster now is to strengthen and tweak technique. |
|
|
Technique first then fitness. |
Tomás
sprinter
Glenn Mills
James Stuart
Cesar
adrian
rednicolas
Joseline Alosbaños
Please The Pool
- Articles
- Motivational Articles
- Pic of the Week
- Question of the Week
- Set of the Week
- Go Swim With Us
- Bios
- Links
More
Underwater Tag Cloud
1650 Aaron Peirsol active drag active recoveryswimming aerobic endurance age-group Amanda Beard anchoring android Android app ascending sendoffs backstroke balance beach reading bilateral breathing birthday swim blueseventy Body Shape bodyline brain training breakout breaststroke breath control breathing Brendan Hansen broken swims butterfly catch challenge set coaches coaching combat side stroke competition crossover turn Cullen Jones cycle rate Dave Denniston descend set distance per cycle distance training dive dolphin dolphin kick DragSox Drills dryland DVD efficiency eggbeater kick Endless Pools Eric Shanteau Eric Vendt etiquette EVF fatigue feel Finis finish fins fist drill flip turn flutter kick Fran Crippen freestyle gallop stroke goals hand entry hand exit head position heart rate hybrid IM inner strength iPhone app Jason Lezak Jeff Rouse Kaitlin Sandeno Kara Lynn Joyce Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen Kevin Clements kick kids learn-to-swim long axis strokes loping Margaret Hoelzer masters medball Michael Phelps middle distance Misty Hyman mobile video monofin neural Olympics one-hour swim open water Over training pace pace clock paddles paralympics parents passive drag propulsion pull pulling pulse rates pushoffs pyramid questiontaper race specific training racing recovery relay starts resisted swimming rhythm Robert Margalis Roland Schoeman Roque Santos rotation Sara McLarty science Scott Tucker sculling SEALs shoulders sighting snorkel speed work sprint Staciana Stitts Starts stations Steve Haufler straight arm recovery streamline stretch cord stretching stroke count stroke rate support swim across america swim camps swim fun swim technique swim training swim video swimming Swimming Golf swimming music Swimsense swimsuit taper teaching Tempo Trainer tether timing training Triathlon turn Turns underwater dolpin underwater pull Vasa water poloswimming water temp weights work to rest ratioWho is GoSwim?
We are a group of swimmers who swim really fast, and like to help others learn how to reach their competitive potential in the area of professional swimming.