Do distance swimmers spend less time w/kicking workouts

I always think of kick improvement as the triple bang (or more!). You get faster by better kick alone. Then your body is ever so slightly better aligned, so you have less resistance. Then, because you are better aligned and have less resistance, you can more fully activate your arms and then your arms are actually "stronger" without lifting any more weight or doing more yardarge! Last, with a better kick & core, you use K&C to kick, balance, and breath rather than your arms, at least incrementally more, so that also frees up your arms to do more of just one thing - pulling you through the water rather than balance & breathing. It's like getting stronger arms just by improving your kick! I've been playing around with trying to keep a six-beat kick throughout my workout, and I'm starting to come to this view myself. My body position and overall stroke feels much better, although at first it felt quite funny (it seemed as though I had to slow my arms down a bit). It doesn't even have to be a very hard kick to get some benefit from it. But I am really starting to think that in addition to kicking sets, one has to practice kicking while swimming. You can't simply do kicking sets and hope that it will translate to your swimming.

I always think of kick improvement as the triple bang (or more!). You get faster by better kick alone. Then your body is ever so slightly better aligned, so you have less resistance. Then, because you are better aligned and have less resistance, you can more fully activate your arms and then your arms are actually "stronger" without lifting any more weight or doing more yardarge! Last, with a better kick & core, you use K&C to kick, balance, and breath rather than your arms, at least incrementally more, so that also frees up your arms to do more of just one thing - pulling you through the water rather than balance & breathing. It's like getting stronger arms just by improving your kick! I've been playing around with trying to keep a six-beat kick throughout my workout, and I'm starting to come to this view myself. My body position and overall stroke feels much better, although at first it felt quite funny (it seemed as though I had to slow my arms down a bit). It doesn't even have to be a very hard kick to get some benefit from it. But I am really starting to think that in addition to kicking sets, one has to practice kicking while swimming. You can't simply do kicking sets and hope that it will translate to your swimming.