After watching USA swimming presents with Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman and a couple of other tutorials with the former on the butterfly stroke, I came to conclusion, as Bob Bowman puts it, that 'minimalisation of resistance is more important than force' and 'it's extremely important to maintain horizontal body position.' Therefore I musn't keep my head too high, because that disturbs my swimming. Bu then I saw Chad Le Clos and I can't help noticing that he's keeping his head much higher than Phelps when breathing and his body motion seems much more vertical. In spite of that, Le Clos seems to swim so effortlessly and light, like he was hardly puting any energy into his stroke. Can someone explain it to me, please? Thanks in advance.
LeClos is young & fit.
Phelps has loose shoulders, he's very flexible, which lowers his internal resistance, his bodies resistance to movement. Resistance from opposing muscles.
"Effortless butterfly" is an oxymoron. Two opposite paradoxical words that don't really go together
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LeClos is young & fit.
Phelps has loose shoulders, he's very flexible, which lowers his internal resistance, his bodies resistance to movement. Resistance from opposing muscles.
"Effortless butterfly" is an oxymoron. Two opposite paradoxical words that don't really go together
like Jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, pretty ugly, freedom fighters, bitter sweet, sweet sorrow, quiet riot, act naturally,
here's more
