Are the way you stroke with your right arm supposed to be semetrical with the way you stroke with your left arm, because I stroke in a different pattern with my left arm than with my right, I suppose that's normal. Also is swimming considered an anerobic or aerobic sport or both?
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I think that your arm strokes should be symetrical, but I would guess that is a goal not achieved by many (not by me). I know that my left arm is different from my right arm in freestyle (I assume we are talking freestyle here) - one arm is more "correct" than the other. Obviously I want to improve the less correct arm. This is just my thoughts. In breaststroke and fly it is a requirement that both arms be symetrical and move in the same plane.
As for whether swimming is aerobic or anaerobic, it depends on your intensity. If you swim long and easy and get your heart rate in the training zone, swimming is aerobic. However, if you do sprints or intervals with a lot of intensity, such that get your heart rate close to max, then swimming is anaerobic. When you go to a meet, a 50 free is definitely anaerobic, while a 1500 would be mostly aerobic. Anaerobic is when you go into oxygen debt. Runners say that aerobic is when you can talk and carry on a conversation, and anaerobic is when you can't talk because you are too out of breath. Runners also say that if you can sing, you aren't putting forth enough effort to be in the training zone. So, no singing between sets. :)
By the way, thank you for the kind words. I haven't posted anything lately, so I will try to put something up in the near future (maybe tonight).
I think that your arm strokes should be symetrical, but I would guess that is a goal not achieved by many (not by me). I know that my left arm is different from my right arm in freestyle (I assume we are talking freestyle here) - one arm is more "correct" than the other. Obviously I want to improve the less correct arm. This is just my thoughts. In breaststroke and fly it is a requirement that both arms be symetrical and move in the same plane.
As for whether swimming is aerobic or anaerobic, it depends on your intensity. If you swim long and easy and get your heart rate in the training zone, swimming is aerobic. However, if you do sprints or intervals with a lot of intensity, such that get your heart rate close to max, then swimming is anaerobic. When you go to a meet, a 50 free is definitely anaerobic, while a 1500 would be mostly aerobic. Anaerobic is when you go into oxygen debt. Runners say that aerobic is when you can talk and carry on a conversation, and anaerobic is when you can't talk because you are too out of breath. Runners also say that if you can sing, you aren't putting forth enough effort to be in the training zone. So, no singing between sets. :)
By the way, thank you for the kind words. I haven't posted anything lately, so I will try to put something up in the near future (maybe tonight).
