What is the average stroke count for a 25 yd free swim? Assuming no block start? I'm trying to count mine and was wondering where I should be aiming for.
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I swim in a 33 meter pool.
If I am relaxed and warmed up and concentrate on keeping my SPL down I need 11 strokes (starting from the wall; one underwater pull at the beginning). Normaly I need 12 or even 15 - if I'm tired.
Sometimes I swim like a torpedo, or at least I fell like one :). I do not watch my times, but I got a few compliments on my speed from swim team members). I wish I could swim like that all the time. At the begining of my swims I am generaly tense and slow. I need to swim a few hundred meters to propely function. After that it is so much better. What is this sensation? Is this due to not being warmed up?
BTW I was talking about breaststroke and not freestyle. As for freestyle, I need 22-25ish. Again in 33 meter pool. No dolphin kick at the beginning, just a push-off the wall and a little streamline.
I swim in a 33 meter pool.
If I am relaxed and warmed up and concentrate on keeping my SPL down I need 11 strokes (starting from the wall; one underwater pull at the beginning). Normaly I need 12 or even 15 - if I'm tired.
Sometimes I swim like a torpedo, or at least I fell like one :). I do not watch my times, but I got a few compliments on my speed from swim team members). I wish I could swim like that all the time. At the begining of my swims I am generaly tense and slow. I need to swim a few hundred meters to propely function. After that it is so much better. What is this sensation? Is this due to not being warmed up?
BTW I was talking about breaststroke and not freestyle. As for freestyle, I need 22-25ish. Again in 33 meter pool. No dolphin kick at the beginning, just a push-off the wall and a little streamline.
