Oooh there’s a fork
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My Dad’s lack of confidence in me was probably what spurred me on to achieve my goal tbh. Took me two goes, and he pretty much said ‘you’re not going to make it’ after the first attempt. Luckily my Mum was a bit more supportive/invested.
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And now you can tie your shoelaces on your own!
(sorry back to the serious stuff…)
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didnt you want to be Maverick or was that a later life goal?
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Big difference between 1:30 & 1:34, 10s rest & 25s rest though
I’ll have to give the set a go. We would do something similar at Loughborough with the para guys for the main set, 12x100’s with 5s rest but I don’t think I hit 1:30’s too often.
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Did you even have shoes growing up in Wales?
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There’s a nack to tying up hessian strips around your feet. Got it down to a tee by the age of 19 
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2nd crack at 12x100m off 1m40.
was going fine, finished number 8, thought “you’ve got this”. But then half way through number 9 just gave up and stopped in the middle of the pool for no reason.
No excuse other than pure softness, guess I’ll have to try again tomorrow
@Doka have you nailed those tumble turns after doing presumably about 300 of them in one swim recently? 
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arbitrary targets nearly always cause problems…
why not do some swimming for a bit and then next week do 9…and repeat the following week with 10 etc…
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When doing sets like that I do them the way the USRPT guys do theirs. If I don’t do a rep in the time, I will then rest until I would have done the next rep and then go again. The next time I don’t get it in time, I stop the session and do some easy swimming, mix the strokes up.
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Multiple ways to skin this cat, bottom line is whatever it takes to get you swimming out of the comfort zone. The session FT is doing is a variation on my “stretch set” which would be used more sparingly and mainly during key periods. Take a swim squad doing 6 sessions a week, we may do it once a week, and gradually build up to it as JC said, I would do say 16 x 100, but start maybe in sets of 4 also with extra rest after each 4, if you get through 4 then you reset and go again for next batch of 4. If you get to 7, then session over; go away do some drills, practice some backstroke, just no more pure FC/target stroke. Once you get to 16, we’d do blocks of 8, then eventually you are at 16 x 100 and reset again with a new turnaround time.
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That’s sort of how I do them. I am currently at 15x 100m on 1:44 off 1:55 and need to nail this a couple more times and then will move to 1:40 off 1:55 and once I can do that I will drop it to off 1:50. I drop 4s a time as that is easiest with the tempo trainer.
My longer sets are at 1:48/100m and have held that during a 500m rep at the back end of a swim.
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Long gone are the days I could hit 30+ x 100m off 1:45
Haven’t swam since IM Frankfurt.
Just struggling to get out of bed each day, let alone at 5:20 to go for a swim.
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I’m doing tumble turns but it would be a stretch to say I’ve nailed them. Struggled to judge the distance at the deep end as theres no real marker and often came up short.
I can’t do the tumble without rotating either like has been discussed here but obvs got some imbalance going on.
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I’ve persevered with them. I’m really slow pushing off the wall and actually find it hard to get into a good position coming to the wall when following people and knowing someone is swimming behind me too.
I reckon I’m probably faster with open turns
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ditto
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I can’t tumble when I’m in a chain, only when I’m on my own.
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Yeah it stresses me but our coach keeps taking the piss when we don’t tumble!
We’re big boys apparently…
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I can’t go in & out of the tumble at a different angle on one leg.
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I don’t dare do tumble turns if someone is near me, just don’t trust myself. But I am definitely quicker with them than open turn when fairly fresh. Not practiced enough to get them right tired. Also, have the feeling that I really need a breath when tired. I know it is CO2 rather than a lack of O2 but still.
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