I swim lots and lots of long distance and often find myself drifting off in thought while staring at the little tiles on the bottom of the pool. Doing sets of 200s or 300s tends not to be a problem...it's the 500 and 1000 yds that I loose concentration. When I start concentrating on technique is when I'm most likely to forget what lap I was on! Is there a gizmo out there to help me out? I envision something I can hang on the wall that would advance with my flipturn. Does anyone have any tricks to help them out with the counting of laps? Thanks!
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I find that 1000-yard repeats are pretty smooth if you do this:
six 25s moderate, four 25s hard. Ten lengths.
Repeat four times.
You're done!
I did this the other day and was able to get through five 1000's and felt great.
I also coach masters and age groupers.
I had the kids do a broken 1650, you know: 11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with :20 rest in between. They all did it. Then I had them do a 200 kick right away, to give their arms a rest.
Quite a few of them got a bad calf cramp and had to get out and stretch.
Does anyone know why this happened? Should I not have had them kick? I always kick after a long freestyle set....and never get a cramp.
I find that 1000-yard repeats are pretty smooth if you do this:
six 25s moderate, four 25s hard. Ten lengths.
Repeat four times.
You're done!
I did this the other day and was able to get through five 1000's and felt great.
I also coach masters and age groupers.
I had the kids do a broken 1650, you know: 11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with :20 rest in between. They all did it. Then I had them do a 200 kick right away, to give their arms a rest.
Quite a few of them got a bad calf cramp and had to get out and stretch.
Does anyone know why this happened? Should I not have had them kick? I always kick after a long freestyle set....and never get a cramp.
