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.
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In practice My pull is only a marginal amount behind my full swim times. In longer sets I tend to pull marginally faster than I swim. However, in practice, my all out fastest sprint pull time is leaps and bounds behind my fastest sprint full swim times because then and only then do I engage the size 15's. Its too tiring to kick hard during practice unless its during a kick set or a sprint. For normal "bangin-yardage" time i mostly do a lazy 2 beat crossover just to keep the ass out of the water, or grab a bouy.
So you can't really imply a weak kick just because you pull faster in practice swimming. However you have something to work on if your sprint pulls are faster or even close to your sprint times. Once you engage the legs there should be a big difference in sprint speed.
I don't use fins/paddles for pulling or otherwise.
I have a two-beat crossover kick - I have trouble trying to kick more beats per stroke because my feet still try to cross over. Do you have this problem and if so do you also have a solution?
In practice My pull is only a marginal amount behind my full swim times. In longer sets I tend to pull marginally faster than I swim. However, in practice, my all out fastest sprint pull time is leaps and bounds behind my fastest sprint full swim times because then and only then do I engage the size 15's. Its too tiring to kick hard during practice unless its during a kick set or a sprint. For normal "bangin-yardage" time i mostly do a lazy 2 beat crossover just to keep the ass out of the water, or grab a bouy.
So you can't really imply a weak kick just because you pull faster in practice swimming. However you have something to work on if your sprint pulls are faster or even close to your sprint times. Once you engage the legs there should be a big difference in sprint speed.
I don't use fins/paddles for pulling or otherwise.
I have a two-beat crossover kick - I have trouble trying to kick more beats per stroke because my feet still try to cross over. Do you have this problem and if so do you also have a solution?
