At the pool yesterday I was doing some pull sets w the buoy thing between my legs and noticed my times were not much slower on a 25y basis than I do when I add the kick. Is it safe to say my kick is my weakness or do most people do their pull sets close to their kick sets?
I also felt like I was able to do sets quicker with my br kick vs flutter kicker. I assume that is fairly common as well.
At the pool yesterday I was doing some pull sets w the buoy thing between my legs and noticed my times were not much slower on a 25y basis than I do when I add the kick. Is it safe to say my kick is my weakness or do most people do their pull sets close to their kick sets?I used to be about the same with and without paddles/buoy. Now, I'm much faster with them. Part of it is building the strength to turn over the paddles (especially if you have larger ones) and part of it is just getting used to them. The buoy helps me a lot because it allows me to hold a better body position in the water without any effort.
I also felt like I was able to do sets quicker with my br kick vs flutter kicker. I assume that is fairly common as well.Dolphin kickers seem to be the fastest. I'm not very good at it but I'm getting better. l wouldn't be surprised if this was my best kick in 2-3 years. For 25... maybe 50 yards, my flutter kick is faster than breaststroke kick. After that, my breaststroke kick is going to be much quicker. I just can't turn over my breaststroke kick fast enough to keep up with flutter kick. But I can kick breaststroke for a long time at a fairly quick pace. I'm not sure if I'm "normal" though. Seems like most people I swim with are better flutter kickers.
I've worked on stretching my ankles to get better flexibility out of them. Fins kind of do the same thing. This has greatly improved both my dolphin and flutter kick.
At the pool yesterday I was doing some pull sets w the buoy thing between my legs and noticed my times were not much slower on a 25y basis than I do when I add the kick. Is it safe to say my kick is my weakness or do most people do their pull sets close to their kick sets?I used to be about the same with and without paddles/buoy. Now, I'm much faster with them. Part of it is building the strength to turn over the paddles (especially if you have larger ones) and part of it is just getting used to them. The buoy helps me a lot because it allows me to hold a better body position in the water without any effort.
I also felt like I was able to do sets quicker with my br kick vs flutter kicker. I assume that is fairly common as well.Dolphin kickers seem to be the fastest. I'm not very good at it but I'm getting better. l wouldn't be surprised if this was my best kick in 2-3 years. For 25... maybe 50 yards, my flutter kick is faster than breaststroke kick. After that, my breaststroke kick is going to be much quicker. I just can't turn over my breaststroke kick fast enough to keep up with flutter kick. But I can kick breaststroke for a long time at a fairly quick pace. I'm not sure if I'm "normal" though. Seems like most people I swim with are better flutter kickers.
I've worked on stretching my ankles to get better flexibility out of them. Fins kind of do the same thing. This has greatly improved both my dolphin and flutter kick.
