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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The pull buoy likely improves your body position, bringing your hips and heels to the surface of the water, which reduces your frontal drag.
Freestyle kick is likely not propulsive, but helpful in counteracting the forces by your arms (Brooks 2000; Deschodt 2009).
Question your route of training, consider using these methods for improvement (cf. www.stack.com/.../).
The pull buoy likely improves your body position, bringing your hips and heels to the surface of the water, which reduces your frontal drag.
Freestyle kick is likely not propulsive, but helpful in counteracting the forces by your arms (Brooks 2000; Deschodt 2009).
Question your route of training, consider using these methods for improvement (cf. www.stack.com/.../).
