Do distance swimmers spend less time w/kicking workouts
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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?
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.
Makes sense. I'm sure there are some sprinters training with masters groups with a little-kicking-mid-D mindset. But some of them may modify workouts (chowmi, Ande). And some train alone or with a training partner so they can customize workouts and do true race pace work (Rich Abrahams, Jim Corbeau).
And there would likely be less shoulder pain and angst if, in general, masters kicked more.
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.
Makes sense. I'm sure there are some sprinters training with masters groups with a little-kicking-mid-D mindset. But some of them may modify workouts (chowmi, Ande). And some train alone or with a training partner so they can customize workouts and do true race pace work (Rich Abrahams, Jim Corbeau).
And there would likely be less shoulder pain and angst if, in general, masters kicked more.
