How fast do you kick compared to swimming?
This is prompted by a set in pwb's High Volume Workouts where a kicking interval/100 was 20 seconds more than normal swimming interval.
The question: What is the spread between your challenge interval for 5x100 swimming and 5x100 kicking?
In my case, I can kick fly on an interval 40 seconds slower than the fastest interval I can make for 5x100 swimming. Free kick is 10 seconds slower (slower than fly kicking).
It always amazes me that even DISTANCE people can kick faster than me.
I like this thread. It actually makes me feel like I'm not that bad of a kicker! :banana:
Here's a little anecdote for you. A few years ago when I was swimming with Husky Masters the assistant coaches for the University of Washington (they still had a team then) coached the masters group. When they were feeling us out initially they did pretty good giving us swimming sets that were challenging but that we could make. Kick sets were another story. My recollection is they thought 100s kick on 1:30 should be no problem for us. It was a problem. I guess the moral of this story is college swimmers tend to be better kickers (comparatively) than masters swimmers.
It always amazes me that even DISTANCE people can kick faster than me.
I like this thread. It actually makes me feel like I'm not that bad of a kicker! :banana:
Here's a little anecdote for you. A few years ago when I was swimming with Husky Masters the assistant coaches for the University of Washington (they still had a team then) coached the masters group. When they were feeling us out initially they did pretty good giving us swimming sets that were challenging but that we could make. Kick sets were another story. My recollection is they thought 100s kick on 1:30 should be no problem for us. It was a problem. I guess the moral of this story is college swimmers tend to be better kickers (comparatively) than masters swimmers.
