How can I swim the 100 m freestyle faster?
To swim faster in the 100 freestyle, make a list of what you need to improve on and what your strengths are. Then analyze the physical requirements of the race and focus on improving each one. Finally, focus on getting easy speed, a great start, the first 50, the second 50, backend speed, front end speed, and top end speed. Transcript: "Well, this is the question of every person that's ever swam 100 freestyle, how can I swim faster? And that will be the question until you stop swimming. It'll never end. It'll always be, how can I go faster? You'll swim the best time and you'll want to go faster as soon as you do it. So this is the question, how do I go faster? What I always do is I write a list. I have a list. OK, I have a pad and a pen, and I draw a line down the middle. And I write on one side what do I have, and then on the other side what do I need. So what do I have is, what are your strengths? What are you really good at? What have you figured out? What are your weaknesses? What do you need to work on? These are the things that I ask myself. And then when I look down that list, I see the areas that I need to keep working on and the areas that I need to improve. And then I do the same thing for the 100 freestyle. What are the expectations of this race? What are the requirements of the race? What do I need in order to perform well in the 100 freestyle specifically. OK, I'm not talking about any other race, just this one race. How do I improve in this one race? What are the physical requirements of this race? I've got to have a great start. I've got to have a great reaction, entry, breakout, underwaters. These things are important, so these are on your list. Then I've got to get out with easy speed. What is easy speed? It's the speed you feel when you're going out as fast as you can, but you're holding back a little bit. There's something in reserve. It feels comfortable even though you're going very fast. Then there's the first 50, and the second 50, and the backend speed, and the front end speed, and the top end speed. I mean, there are so many factors in a great 100 freestyle. Write them all down, figure out what you need. I mean, that's the best way I can answer this question because it's going to be never ending."
Brett Hawke
๐ฆ๐บ 5x Olympian - No.1 Swimming Podcast Host
Well, this is the question of every person that's ever swam 100 freestyle, how can I swim faster? And that will be the question until you stop swimming. It'll never end. It'll always be, how can I go faster? You'll swim the best time and you'll want to go faster as soon as you do it. So this is the question, how do I go faster? What I always do is I write a list. I have a list. OK, I have a pad and a pen, and I draw a line down the middle. And I write on one side what do I have, and then on the other side what do I need. So what do I have is, what are your strengths? What are you really good at? What have you figured out? What are your weaknesses? What do you need to work on? These are the things that I ask myself. And then when I look down that list, I see the areas that I need to keep working on and the areas that I need to improve. And then I do the same thing for the 100 freestyle. What are the expectations of this race? What are the requirements of the race? What do I need in order to perform well in the 100 freestyle specifically. OK, I'm not talking about any other race, just this one race. How do I improve in this one race? What are the physical requirements of this race? I've got to have a great start. I've got to have a great reaction, entry, breakout, underwaters. These things are important, so these are on your list. Then I've got to get out with easy speed. What is easy speed? It's the speed you feel when you're going out as fast as you can, but you're holding back a little bit. There's something in reserve. It feels comfortable even though you're going very fast. Then there's the first 50, and the second 50, and the backend speed, and the front end speed, and the top end speed. I mean, there are so many factors in a great 100 freestyle. Write them all down, figure out what you need. I mean, that's the best way I can answer this question because it's going to be never ending.
Ray Looze
Olympic & World Champ Swim Coach
If you want to swim the 100 free faster, number one, get stronger number to improve your breath control abilities. Because you need to going to, you're going to need to breathe every fourth. Number three, have a phenomenal kick. You need to maintain a 6B kick throughout the whole race. Number four, have some underwater, so you can have that weapon off the starting off of off the walls. Yes, and number 5 develop the ability to do, you know, straight arm freestyle so that you can swim big and powerfully. Good luck.
James Gibson MBE
World Champ ๐ฅ Swimmer & Coach
Okay, so how can you swim faster than 100 free where you need to put together a lots of different components? All right. You need to have a good race strategy. You need to plan that out with the coach going to need to know what you do. You guys have a great kick, you get that from training doing the work in training. You need to have a great pool, great, catch, good technique. And you need to marry them all together. You need to have the right mindset for everything. So engage on what you're doing and you process is. So I understand what it takes to do, a good 100 freestyle. What it takes is an aggressive front end and strong backhand so you can put that together and you train you got To work your back hand first. So make sure you know what you want to come home. And I remember, coach armor, Z. You never spoke about what time you want to go out in? He talks about what time you going to come home? And, and generally, that's the right mindset for any hundreds, especially 200 freestyle. So, work out, what time you want to come home and gear your training towards that, have an all-around approach to training, you know, you know, he's got to be strong in the in the, in the body and the core, maybe not Jim. It depends on your age, but you need to make sure that you know, exactly the direction of where you go in and how you're going to do it. Hopefully, that helps okay.
Michael Bohl
Multiple Olympic ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฅ Coach
I think there's so many things that you can look at 400 freestyle. It's a it's a real combination of speed and endurance. 200 freestyle. You've got to be able to go out really well through the first 50. So if you haven't got that, good relaxed, easy speed through the first 50. You may need to be working on that a little bit more in training. And if you find conversely that you're really dropping away on that second 50. Maybe you need to look at. You know, your aerobic conditioning. So, I think, you know, you as an athlete need to evaluate yourself to see where you are in relation to your speed and endurance to see what that formula looks like. And if one is lacking, then I think you need to not forget about what you're doing. Really. Well, you need to concentrate on that as well. But paying extra attention to maybe what you're not doing. Well, you know, kicking is a big contributor making sure your kick is enduring, it's fast and its enduring, you've got to have great. Legs your skills, your start and your turn of got to be, you know, very efficient. So you're not falling behind in those two areas and the execution. I think, you know what we like to see in the hundred freestyle is a drop-off from the first 50 to the second 50 of Summer between one and a half and two seconds. So if you're out in 20 40, you want to be back in between 25 and 26, 0, Ro. So between that one and a half and two seconds at the absolute maximum from the front to the back of the hundred.
Santi Grassi
Multiple Olympian
Okay, so you want to swim the 100-meter freestyle faster? Let's analyze any mere fact that 100 meter freestyle. What is it about that? You have to do better to swim faster. You start entering some in the water. You, streamline your underwater, as you break out, your stroke, your cake, your breath, your turns. You're pushing off the turns you're underwater is in the game. They will break out strobe the head position, your hips. There's a lot of things really You can analyze some your strokes and tried to do better. So maybe for you try to do a practice, some 100 pays or do a little set, try to have a friend recording, you may be so you can watch you and try to see how your swimming when you get a tired because when we refresh when you're first 25, everyone can do a fast, 25 first, 25 fast. The thing is who can do the last 25 fast, or at least holding that paint that you were having. So and that comes with details, you know, you want to make sure that everything is in position and you're still swimming the same story that you were swimming at the beginning and not different because you are tired. So analyze how good your jump is? Kind of get better, how your entrance is. Can it get better? Streamline. Can we get better on the waters? You know, you might not really be working on your stroke swimming stroke, but you can be working on jumps and streamlines and then the waters, and you can already get a couple seconds faster because of that. So It's about finding little things working on them, and then putting them together.
Kim Brackin
Olympic Gold medal ๐ฅCoach
Hi, I'm going to try to say your name. Pasty XD, your username 100-meter. 200-meter freestyle swimming faster. You got to be strong. So get out there. Do some, even bodyweight work, like pull-ups, push-ups, plyometric jumps, you want to build some explosiveness, and some strength, and then you have to have great technique. You have to have great technique in and out of your walls. You have to have a great. Start. And then technically holding tons of water while you're swimming. So it's going to take some training, but it's also going to take some work outside of the pool and, you know, just a mindset of toughness. So, good luck with that. I hope you have fun preparing to be a faster. 100-meter freestyle summer.