Do distance swimmers spend less time w/kicking workouts
Former Member
Just curious if sprinters spend more time kicking as a percentage of their overall workouts compared to distance swimmers? Can and do distance swimmers have to spend less time?
As a sprinter and SDK specialist, I spend approx 40-50% of my workouts kicking. I'm quite sure no D master swimmer does this.
But most sprinters probably don't either. You're an anomaly!
It's been my observation that most masters swimmers don't like kick sets and many that do kick use it as recovery. Social kicks, etc. I haven't really noticed a sprint/distance dichotomy, but I think a lot of masters teams train at least middle distance so it's possible the lack of kicking is related to the non-sprint mindset overall...if that makes sense.
As a sprinter and SDK specialist, I spend approx 40-50% of my workouts kicking. I'm quite sure no D master swimmer does this.
But most sprinters probably don't either. You're an anomaly!
It's been my observation that most masters swimmers don't like kick sets and many that do kick use it as recovery. Social kicks, etc. I haven't really noticed a sprint/distance dichotomy, but I think a lot of masters teams train at least middle distance so it's possible the lack of kicking is related to the non-sprint mindset overall...if that makes sense.
