@swimsuccess: If you're stuck at 1:40/100m, this is exactly why you're stuck. ❌ Too much endurance work, not enough speed work ❌ Intervals at comfortable pace, never truly fast ❌ No pure sprint training at all At 1:40/100m your technique is already in a good place. That's not what's holding you back anymore. The problem is your training is making you better at swimming slow. Not fast. Here's what actually needs to change. 1️⃣ Your speed ceiling. Your muscles have two types of fibers. Fast twitch for speed and slow twitch for endurance. The more endurance work you do, the more you develop slow twitch fibers. And at the same time, you're reducing your fast twitch fibers. More long distance swimming right now will not make you faster. It will most likely make you slower. 2️⃣ Sprint sets. Real ones. 15s and 25s max effort. Short, fast, aggressive, explosive. That's how you develop your fast twitch fibers and raise your speed ceiling. Because here's the truth. You have to get faster first. Then we build the endurance on top of that speed. Once you have a faster base, you can work on holding that pace for longer. And that's when 1:30 and even 1:20 pace becomes realistic. Not by swimming more. By training smarter. Speed sets your ceiling. Then we build endurance to hold it. 📲 Download the Swim Success Training app for free, pick your goal as "get faster" and the app will build a fully personalised training plan to help you break through that wall. Link in bio.

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