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 usual swim partner finally came back from his vacation in Thailand and decided to get back to regular swimming. So I benefited in having someone to do a proper timing of my sprints. It was interesting to try to explain what I am learning about vortexes and swimming, I don’t think I did a […]
Although not my fastest time it is nice to be able to stay under 18 seconds. Today, after swimming, one of the very nice life guards asked me what I was training for. I was a bit surprised, but told him that I wasn’t training for anything but just to be able to swim as […]
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 […]
I found some extremely interesting articles that absolutely every swimmer should read. I will write more as I have time. Amazing!
http://www.h2oustonswims.org/articles/get_better_grip_I.html
There are many parts to it, but the first two should give you enough to think about. It discusses the importance of having a proper feel for the water and how to improve that.
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 drill […]
I was happy on Wednesday to be able to maintain my speed for 35 meters. My meters per second works out to 1.333, which works out to 18.75 seconds on 25 meters, which is reasonable. As much as I am making some progress this time, thinking that I could maintain the speed, on 50 meters […]
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 a […]
I swam both Saturday and Sunday at a pool near my house, which was 35 meters long. I was a bit disappointed because I wasn’t able to maintain my best time for the full 35 meters. I think that means that I have some work to do on my level of fitness. I expect that […]