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).
I do not agree there is any function that can accurately determine kicking speed from swimming speed.
If you are saying that the variables are completely independent, I would have to disagree, though the correlation is probably weaker for distance swimmers. (And nowadays some of those elite distance types can really get the motor going back there at the end of the race!)
Though you do seem to be quite the outlier...but I mean that in a good way: an exceptionally fast swimmer for your kick speed! :)
I guess the moral of this story is college swimmers tend to be better kickers (comparatively) than masters swimmers.
Or age group swimmers. A lot -- I think a majority -- of the NOVA age-groupers (800+ swimmers, Gold-medal USA-S club) of HS age cannot do 100 kick repeats on the 1:30.
I do not agree there is any function that can accurately determine kicking speed from swimming speed.
If you are saying that the variables are completely independent, I would have to disagree, though the correlation is probably weaker for distance swimmers. (And nowadays some of those elite distance types can really get the motor going back there at the end of the race!)
Though you do seem to be quite the outlier...but I mean that in a good way: an exceptionally fast swimmer for your kick speed! :)
I guess the moral of this story is college swimmers tend to be better kickers (comparatively) than masters swimmers.
Or age group swimmers. A lot -- I think a majority -- of the NOVA age-groupers (800+ swimmers, Gold-medal USA-S club) of HS age cannot do 100 kick repeats on the 1:30.
