i have an important question , how can i get my arm recovery/stroke to get faste.r(increase arm speed). I go 23.19 in the 50 free, and i recently went 27.28 in LCM but my arm speed is veryy slow.... any tips ? i would like for my arms to go as fast as cesar cielo or nathan adrians.
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I am not certain that "pulling all the way through" is conducive to top speed. My impression, possibly incorrect, is that most top sprinters are more focused on the front quadrant, where there is more power, than a good finish. They might sacrifice some DPS, hand exiting a little earlier, in order to get a higher stroke rate.
That's correct. You have to let go at the hip. You're probably doing it in middle distance freestyle as well, without thinking about it.
It's not necessarily a DPS sacrifice, either. When you spend time extending your arm at your side, you are producing less power than the middle segment of the stroke, because the lats are no longer involved. So you're spending time without producing much propulsion, and then spending more time getting the arm back forward out of that awkward position. In everybody's freestyle stroke there's a gap between the impulses from the left and right arms. If you waste time in the arm stroke, that gap gets bigger, and you spend more time losing speed due to drag. This can cause a decrease in DPS.
I am not certain that "pulling all the way through" is conducive to top speed. My impression, possibly incorrect, is that most top sprinters are more focused on the front quadrant, where there is more power, than a good finish. They might sacrifice some DPS, hand exiting a little earlier, in order to get a higher stroke rate.
That's correct. You have to let go at the hip. You're probably doing it in middle distance freestyle as well, without thinking about it.
It's not necessarily a DPS sacrifice, either. When you spend time extending your arm at your side, you are producing less power than the middle segment of the stroke, because the lats are no longer involved. So you're spending time without producing much propulsion, and then spending more time getting the arm back forward out of that awkward position. In everybody's freestyle stroke there's a gap between the impulses from the left and right arms. If you waste time in the arm stroke, that gap gets bigger, and you spend more time losing speed due to drag. This can cause a decrease in DPS.
