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).
Extracting data from the posts to this thread yields this distribution:
time diff: frequency
10-19: 1
20-29: 4
30-39: 4
40-49: 3
50-59: 1
60-69: 1
70&up: 1
My first impression was that there is no obvious correlation of the time difference to swimming speed. On the other hand, there are only two posts from people who I am reasonably certain are slower swimmers than I, and they both reported a larger difference than I did. (I am pretty much exactly agerage, so these two are below-average kickers.)
Other observations:
A few people noted their difference for breaststroke and in all cases it was smaller than for flutter kick. This makes sense as more of the propulsion comes from the kick in breaststroke than in freestyle. The same should be true in backstroke, but to a lesser degree, and this is consistent with the only post that reports about backstroke.
Four posts commented on the difference for DK. Two reported DK as much faster than flutter, two reported DK as much slower. I would join the second group. Again no obviousl correlation. One of the slow DKers is a very fine butterflyer, as is one of the fastest DKers.
Extracting data from the posts to this thread yields this distribution:
time diff: frequency
10-19: 1
20-29: 4
30-39: 4
40-49: 3
50-59: 1
60-69: 1
70&up: 1
My first impression was that there is no obvious correlation of the time difference to swimming speed. On the other hand, there are only two posts from people who I am reasonably certain are slower swimmers than I, and they both reported a larger difference than I did. (I am pretty much exactly agerage, so these two are below-average kickers.)
Other observations:
A few people noted their difference for breaststroke and in all cases it was smaller than for flutter kick. This makes sense as more of the propulsion comes from the kick in breaststroke than in freestyle. The same should be true in backstroke, but to a lesser degree, and this is consistent with the only post that reports about backstroke.
Four posts commented on the difference for DK. Two reported DK as much faster than flutter, two reported DK as much slower. I would join the second group. Again no obviousl correlation. One of the slow DKers is a very fine butterflyer, as is one of the fastest DKers.
