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.
Ever feel a bit sick, a bit tired, and a bit unmotivated and then really tear shit up? That is the perfect sentiment for today swim. I can tell a cold is sneaking up on my nose and my motivation seemed to be heading in the other direction. Getting into the pool I felt like […]
This is a very interesting post I found. I think it is from a coach of a swim team and discusses the differences that water can have on swim times. I’d certainly like to see some more research on this issue and will try to put some together.
Someone told me yesterday that the Lacombe swimming […]
At some point it is important to look back and enjoy the gains you have made. I often forget how far I have come and I really enjoy thinking back to one year ago, thrashing around, the water fighting me on every stroke. My first blog post on swimming came on June 27th and I […]
Here is some biographical information on some of the world’s greatest swimmers.
Ian Thorpe
Birth Date: October 13, 1982
Birth Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birth Name: Ian James Thorpe
Height: 6′5" (195.58 cm)
Foot Size: 17
Arm Span: 192 cm
coach: Doug Frost, Tracey Menzies
Alexander Popov
Birth Date: November 16, 1971
Birth Place: Sverdlovsk, […]
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 […]
Being sick is seriously not fun. I had a week of vacation and I thought I would rest my arms as I had strained my tendons. But then I went and got sick. Ouch, out of the pool for two weeks.
After jumping back in this week I have made a massive un-improvement. In fact, my […]
This frame by frame analysis was originally on limmatsharks.com. The sequence shown is taken from the 800 m freestyle final in Fukuoka 2001. I won’t repeat the analysis as I think it is enough to see the images and make your own judgements.
The only two points to highlight are: 1) Notice how high their elbows […]
I am really happy with the progress I am making. The week before last (week 39) was frustrating for me, but I learned an important lesson that made a big difference for me. I figured out that if you want to swim fast, you need to practice swimming fast EVERY DAY. Most of my […]
Yes. I am a geek. Oh well. Breaking personal goals is always fun, but if you see that my 50 meter time is double the current world record time it helps me keep things in perspective.
The chart below is for sprints on 25 meters
The chart below is for sprints on 50 meters
Here is a graph of my fastest times in the last four trips to the pool.
I recently purchased the SportCount timer and so I can record the time on each lap that I make. I have been recording the times in an Excel worksheet and then looking at the progress. Unfortunately, I have two different […]