I have a question about gliding in freestyle. My way of swimming is that after each stroke I stretch my leading arm, glide and then I go over to the next stroke if you know what I mean.
Now someone is telling me that it''s more efficient to immediately go over to the next stroke without the gliding phase while your arm is stretched.
What do you think is more efficient.
Lui - swimming with a nice long glide feels great - and my guess is that, since gliding is like swimming for "free," it might be more efficient overall (assuming you don't lose too much momentum between strokes), not taking speed into account. But it might not be the most efficient way to swim fast, if that's what you're interested in.
Anyways, Total Immersion does discuss these kinds of things at length, so I second pwb's recommendation.
Lui - swimming with a nice long glide feels great - and my guess is that, since gliding is like swimming for "free," it might be more efficient overall (assuming you don't lose too much momentum between strokes), not taking speed into account. But it might not be the most efficient way to swim fast, if that's what you're interested in.
Anyways, Total Immersion does discuss these kinds of things at length, so I second pwb's recommendation.
