Posted by heathweaver

I finally reached my current target of 18.50 seconds. As usual I have no idea what exactly makes the difference, but here are a few things I have been working on.

I had seen the video below a couple of days ago of Alexander Popov and I really like it. I think he totally looks like a shark. It’s funny too, because often you see girls or guys not wanting to get there hair wet and so keeping there head out of the water. But here he really looks like he is after something.

You can see it after about two seconds and then again at 22 seconds.

It is MUCH harder than I thought. When I am done with 25 meters of that I am completely winded. I don’t even have the courage to try it on 50 meters. Another drill that I was trying is also by Mr. Popov. I don’t know exactly when he does it, but you can see him doing a dauphin kick on his side. The trick here is breathing. I really enjoy the drill, but I have to take a stroke to breath where he just kind of sticks his mouth out of the water.

I am not sure what it is that really helped me go so much faster, but I am definitely going to keep working on those drills. My next target is a big on: Break 17 seconds on 25 meters or 1.471 meters per second.

Stay tuned.