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?
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.
I don't think it's specifically a NO Kick! mentality, it's more a Must Get In 3000 in 1 Hour! Mentality. The broad swath of non-pool competing swimmers want to get in a certain amount of distance, either because they are training for longer open water swims, or because the yardage in itself is a goal. They aren't concerned with leg strength for that last 1/100 of a second. So the workouts have tended to become more swim/pull in nature. Kicking simply takes up a lot of time. Same for drills and other sets that focus on stroke improvement.
This is simply the way it is. DAMM doesn't exist so that I have people to race and do MY sets on my Quest for 23.99. There are 600+ paying members with other goals. tee hee!
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.
I don't think it's specifically a NO Kick! mentality, it's more a Must Get In 3000 in 1 Hour! Mentality. The broad swath of non-pool competing swimmers want to get in a certain amount of distance, either because they are training for longer open water swims, or because the yardage in itself is a goal. They aren't concerned with leg strength for that last 1/100 of a second. So the workouts have tended to become more swim/pull in nature. Kicking simply takes up a lot of time. Same for drills and other sets that focus on stroke improvement.
This is simply the way it is. DAMM doesn't exist so that I have people to race and do MY sets on my Quest for 23.99. There are 600+ paying members with other goals. tee hee!
