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.
My last update, about 6 months ago, was about improving my average freestyle crawl time by measuring my breathing carefully. It is well known that breathing less increases your time. Since that time I have been trying various drills to improve my 50 meter freestyle average time. I’ve dropped it to around 49 seconds still [...]
It is immensely frustrating to not see any progress on my personal best times. Ten weeks ago I had dropped below 17 seconds on 25 meters and below 38 seconds on my 50, but as the time has passed my times have gotten worse and worse. The funny thing is that I feel like I [...]
My routine started out with 140 meters of font-quarter sculling. After some practice this type of sculling gets very interesting. I was able to really get a feel for the water and as my momentum built up my speed increased more and more. However, in order to do this effectively some kind of snorkel is [...]
One step closer to my new target of breaking 17 seconds. I am always shocked when I beat my targets. I swam every day last week; pushing myself too hard on Sunday without warming up. Afterwards my should was sore so I didn’t swim yesterday. So today I was taking it really easy. I was practicing the roll-over [...]
I wasn’t really pushing myself that hard as far as speed today, rather I was practicing my start. I have been really struggling when coming off the block because as I hit the water my goggles come loose. I can visualize pretty well how it should look entering the water, but actually doing it is [...]
I am constantly having the problem of not seeing my actual speed due to pressing the buttons on my watch. I am considerig getting one of these SportCount finger timers. The thing that worries me is the size. I already hate wearing a watch and if there was some kind of system I could use [...]
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 [...]