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?
There is an interesting article on developing distance swimmers in the new issue of "American Swimming."The author ,Richard Shepard opines that while one probably can't win the Olympics without a 6 beat kick that some kids are never going to be as fast with a 6 beat kick as with a 2 beat kick and that you are doing them a disservice to force them into a 6 beat kick.
There is an interesting article on developing distance swimmers in the new issue of "American Swimming."The author ,Richard Shepard opines that while one probably can't win the Olympics without a 6 beat kick that some kids are never going to be as fast with a 6 beat kick as with a 2 beat kick and that you are doing them a disservice to force them into a 6 beat kick.
