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?
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That's why its a forum and not a workout where a lot of coaches wouldn't even get into a debate on this topic (that would be me)....whether you're swimming for fitness or to compete you train multiple muscle groups and energy systems. To ignore or downplay the importance of training utilizing the bodies largest muscle groups is a mistake-IMHO.
The folks who I have seen that want to focus on "swimming" yardage are most often (again IMHO) the people who should most often spend more time focusing on technique and using kick sets at times for recovery and at others to maximize high intensity speed work (disclaimer, I'm an advocate of Grant Hackett's coach who felt that regardless of the distance "everything was about speed")...which AGAIN IMHO is often ignored or downplayed by the so called "distance" swimmers!
There is no firm answer to any of these forum posts
That's why its a forum and not a workout where a lot of coaches wouldn't even get into a debate on this topic (that would be me)....whether you're swimming for fitness or to compete you train multiple muscle groups and energy systems. To ignore or downplay the importance of training utilizing the bodies largest muscle groups is a mistake-IMHO.
The folks who I have seen that want to focus on "swimming" yardage are most often (again IMHO) the people who should most often spend more time focusing on technique and using kick sets at times for recovery and at others to maximize high intensity speed work (disclaimer, I'm an advocate of Grant Hackett's coach who felt that regardless of the distance "everything was about speed")...which AGAIN IMHO is often ignored or downplayed by the so called "distance" swimmers!
