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).
If you are saying that the variables are completely independent, I would have to disagree, though the correlation is probably weaker for distance swimmers.
The relationship also is different for different strokes. For instance, for me the difference between freestyle swimming (no snorkel) and kicking face-down with snorkel probably is about :35-:40 (1:12/1:50), but the difference between backstroke swimming and kicking face up (6-8 SDK off each wall either with or without arms) is only about :20 (1:25/1:45). If I did the freestyle swimming with snorkel the spread probably would drop to :30-:35; don't know that I could do 5 on 1:15 with snorkel but I could do 1:20.
Probably not coincidentally, my 100s and 200s backstroke are stronger compared to my peers than my 100s and 200s freestyle, although I am strongest compared to other women in my age group at longer freestyle races.
If you are saying that the variables are completely independent, I would have to disagree, though the correlation is probably weaker for distance swimmers.
The relationship also is different for different strokes. For instance, for me the difference between freestyle swimming (no snorkel) and kicking face-down with snorkel probably is about :35-:40 (1:12/1:50), but the difference between backstroke swimming and kicking face up (6-8 SDK off each wall either with or without arms) is only about :20 (1:25/1:45). If I did the freestyle swimming with snorkel the spread probably would drop to :30-:35; don't know that I could do 5 on 1:15 with snorkel but I could do 1:20.
Probably not coincidentally, my 100s and 200s backstroke are stronger compared to my peers than my 100s and 200s freestyle, although I am strongest compared to other women in my age group at longer freestyle races.
