This site is devoted to swimming. Why is it called Twenty-Three Seconds? Because my goal is to swim 50 meters within twenty-three seconds. Follow along as I analyze my crawl stroke to death and maybe you'll learn a few things to improve your own time.

Out the Gates: 17.38 seconds on 25 meters

Posted by heathweaver

After a second very frustrating week I finally made some serious progress back towards my record time. I chopped a second off my previous time and am now only one second more than my previous record. grr.

At some point while I was swimming my feel for the water came back. It is strange, because I have been working to get rotate my body strongly in the water as I stroke, but when I swim at my fastest my torso actually rotates very little. It’s the same when I am swimming a shark stroke. As my head is out of the water it is very difficult to rotate the torso, but it is still a very fast stroke.

Well no interesting break through’s to report until I can get up to speed again.

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