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).
Kick to the wall, open turn. No pulling on the lane line, no stroke into the wall, no dolphin kick.
For me: flutter kick, with board, no DK. I consider taking a pull to be cheating. (Caveat: As I approach the wall, I remove one hand from the board and reach for the gutter, while simultaneously turning the board toward the other end of the pool. This turning of the board does have a small propulsive effect into the wall, but I definitely do not pull with the free hand.) I've noticed that in the pool where I train, many of the "fast" kickers are actually very fine pullers;)
I use the same strategy for fly and *** kick, but back kick I do streamline NB and I do flip turns with SDK.
Kick to the wall, open turn. No pulling on the lane line, no stroke into the wall, no dolphin kick.
For me: flutter kick, with board, no DK. I consider taking a pull to be cheating. (Caveat: As I approach the wall, I remove one hand from the board and reach for the gutter, while simultaneously turning the board toward the other end of the pool. This turning of the board does have a small propulsive effect into the wall, but I definitely do not pull with the free hand.) I've noticed that in the pool where I train, many of the "fast" kickers are actually very fine pullers;)
I use the same strategy for fly and *** kick, but back kick I do streamline NB and I do flip turns with SDK.
