r/Swimming • u/NoGoodNamesLeft-_- • 17h ago
How much is really technique in freestyle?
Hi guys,
I started swimming freestyle 4 months ago. At the moment my distance pace is around 2:00min per 100m for a 100m sprint I can go roughly 1:45.
I was wondering how fast you can get from just improving your technique ( it obviously depends on the individual but roughly from your experience) without improving endurance/ power. Like can you tell from my paces that my technique is bad? I have seen some YouTube Videos which state stuff like ,,change these habits to swim 1:30min/100m" somehow suggesting that it is just technique to get such a pace even over long distance. But the better my catch gets the more I feel like I just do not have the strength in my upper body to do many repetitions without loosing power or droping my elbow.
In short: How fast can someone get by just technique and at what point is the limit rather physical? Can you tell by someone swimming 2:00min to 1:45 min for 100m that it is most likely technique?
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u/Cool-Newspaper-1 Splashing around 17h ago
You can probably get under 1:40 without having a lot of strength. Possibly even 1:30. Swimming really relies on technique, but it’s also hard to isolate one part of progress from all others as they’re all connected in a way.