So....here's the thing:
I'm actually getting decent at flipturns. I screw a few of them up, but I always know what I did wrong. The ratio of good flips to bad flips keeps going up. But, because there are usually some bad flips along the way, I haven't set any PRs yet when using flips. I'm at 1:25 100m with (some bad) flips, vs 1:22 with decent open-turns. My 50m is hi-39sec vice hi-38sec.
However....
When flipping, of course we are not breathing through the approach, turn, and pushoff. This is not a problem for me in a hard 50m/100m. But in a hard 400m, I'm dying, Man!! The accumulation of not breathing for this period every 25m has me GASPING after 200m. I crave that open-turn breath.
Maybe I will learn to handle this, but I dunno.
Even if you flip well, should you sometimes do open turns because of the oxygen situation?
Ok. Thanks. It's just that....after months of exciting leaps in swimming, I suddenly feel like I have stalled, or gone backwards. This feeling of exhaustion/despair is depressing. :bitching:The sudden plateau in performance just means you’re graduating to the next level of performance, as well as conditioning, and just need to figure out what’s holding ya back . It is definitely nothing to get discouraged about man. Study the basics of stroke fundamentals. Sometimes video can help, quite a lot
Ok. Thanks. It's just that....after months of exciting leaps in swimming, I suddenly feel like I have stalled, or gone backwards. This feeling of exhaustion/despair is depressing. :bitching:The sudden plateau in performance just means you’re graduating to the next level of performance, as well as conditioning, and just need to figure out what’s holding ya back . It is definitely nothing to get discouraged about man. Study the basics of stroke fundamentals. Sometimes video can help, quite a lot
