Kicking is essential to swimming.
If you want to swim fast, you need to kick fast.
With a board, without a board,
With fins, without fins.
While swimming or just kicking.
Consider improving your kick.
We need speed.
What did you do in practice today?
the breastroke lane
The Middle Distance Lane
The Backstroke Lane
The Butterfly Lane
The SDK Lane
The Taper Lane
The Distance Lane
The IM Lane
The Sprint Free Lane
The Pool Deck
Recovering from labrum surgery. Back in the pool for a week now kicking in the 'executive' lane, aka the gutter lane. No board and can only do half streamline with my good arm, but can manage flip turns. One thing I look forward to is being able to 'stroke' into the wall again.....which is something I haven't been able to do in a long time due to the bum shoulder. All my teammates would kill me on those stroking turns......no fair!!!!
Last nights workout (using short fins):
500 mixed kick warmup
3 x 5 x 100
1 x Flutter kick on stomach, arms at side (breathe by turning onto back)
1 x Dolphin kick on back, arms at side
1 x Side flutter kick, good arm leading
1 x Back flutter kick, good arm leading
1 x Dolphin dives (5-6 kicks per stroke with good arm).
500 cool down, no fins, mostly breaststroke kick on back
2500 LONG COURSE METERS total.
Every single little muscle in my FOOT hurts.
I have a training snorkel on its way to me now....anyone know of some good kick/snorkel drills? Or other kick drills not involving a streamline?
I've got at least 2-3 months more of this....wish me luck and/or kill me now!!! :drown:
Recovering from labrum surgery. Back in the pool for a week now kicking in the 'executive' lane, aka the gutter lane. No board and can only do half streamline with my good arm, but can manage flip turns. One thing I look forward to is being able to 'stroke' into the wall again.....which is something I haven't been able to do in a long time due to the bum shoulder. All my teammates would kill me on those stroking turns......no fair!!!!
Last nights workout (using short fins):
500 mixed kick warmup
3 x 5 x 100
1 x Flutter kick on stomach, arms at side (breathe by turning onto back)
1 x Dolphin kick on back, arms at side
1 x Side flutter kick, good arm leading
1 x Back flutter kick, good arm leading
1 x Dolphin dives (5-6 kicks per stroke with good arm).
500 cool down, no fins, mostly breaststroke kick on back
2500 LONG COURSE METERS total.
Every single little muscle in my FOOT hurts.
I have a training snorkel on its way to me now....anyone know of some good kick/snorkel drills? Or other kick drills not involving a streamline?
I've got at least 2-3 months more of this....wish me luck and/or kill me now!!! :drown:
