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
I like the set you posted. Maybe in awhile you can try an interval. Body position is key in kick. I developed better body positon by using snorkel and floating on my back for several minutes at a time and trying to keep very still and raise my toes out of the water. Same thing on my stomach but try to get heels slightly out of the water. Glad your surgery outcome was good!
Kick for Time Results:
www.pacificmasters.org/.../13Memopostal.html
04:52.1
This is an incredible performance!
In perspective and think of where I would be by the 5 min mark, about 250 yd's, and about that point my legs would lock up and I would have to crawl on the deck into the locker room.
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My natural kick is a two-beat crossover kick. When I try to increase my kick while swimming freestyle, it feels very unnatural but I know that a stronger kick would serve me well on shorter events. I trudge through kick sets but I don't feel like it translates to my swimming except in backstroke. How might I get used to kicking more while swimming? Would wearing short fins help?
To execute a strong 6-beat kick, I have to allow my kick to determine my stroke cadence. I think that might be what you mean by 'unnatural.' It feels strange to be kick-driven, but the clock does not lie.
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My natural kick is a two-beat crossover kick. When I try to increase my kick while swimming freestyle, it feels very unnatural but I know that a stronger kick would serve me well on shorter events. I trudge through kick sets but I don't feel like it translates to my swimming except in backstroke. How might I get used to kicking more while swimming? Would wearing short fins help?
I'll try thinking of it that way. The other problem I have is that my feet still try to cross over when I'm trying to kick more than two beats.
I have the same issue when swimming and I think it has something to do with breathing on the left side. When I bi-lateral I don't cross-over. Try it and see if that's the case with you ekw.
Kick for Time Results:
www.pacificmasters.org/.../13Memopostal.html
04:52.1
This is an incredible performance!
In perspective and think of where I would be by the 5 min mark, about 250 yd's, and about that point my legs would lock up and I would have to crawl on the deck into the locker room.
Truly was
here's the link to the practice Chris Stevenson did it
To execute a strong 6-beat kick, I have to allow my kick to determine my stroke cadence. I think that might be what you mean by 'unnatural.' It feels strange to be kick-driven, but the clock does not lie.
I'll try thinking of it that way. The other problem I have is that my feet still try to cross over when I'm trying to kick more than two beats.
I have the same issue when swimming and I think it has something to do with breathing on the left side. When I bi-lateral I don't cross-over. Try it and see if that's the case with you ekw.
I pretty much always bilateral breathe, except when racing, so in my case that's not it. Good idea, though. Maybe the reverse is true for me? I'll experiment.
