Swim smarts: Engineers? Drag increases as speed increases?
Former Member
I overheard one of the local club team coaches prepping the kids before a technique based drill make the statement that the faster you go the more drag you encounter. He was having them ensure they kept their shoulder to cheek on their free sets to narrow the frontal profile. While I am not questioning the coach I just wanted to know if one of you smart Masters swimmers might be able to dumb that down for me.
So to ensure I lay this out to the best of my understanding which is probably wrong: for two physical clones swimming freestyle in lanes next to each other with completely identical technical strokes down to the mm. The drag for the 1:20 pace swimmer will be less than the swimmer peeling off 1:10 splits? I'm a big dummy so wrapping my head around that idea just isn't sinking in.
Thanks for the Saturday morning hydrodynamics lesson!
The last time I posted on this was post # 35 on this thread forums.usms.org/showthread.php .This is easy to prove to yourself.Pull your hand slowly through the water.Now pull your hand quickly through the water.Which is harder? Or push off the wall at the pool as hard as you can with your head up and your arms wide,now do the same as streamlined as possible.Which way goes further?
The last time I posted on this was post # 35 on this thread forums.usms.org/showthread.php .This is easy to prove to yourself.Pull your hand slowly through the water.Now pull your hand quickly through the water.Which is harder? Or push off the wall at the pool as hard as you can with your head up and your arms wide,now do the same as streamlined as possible.Which way goes further?
