Hi all,
It's so funny--sometimes I see people at the pool who really go at it with the kickboard...and then other people wouldn't touch one if their life depended upon it.
I'll admit, I don't use one--mainly becuase I'm impatient, feel like I'm not going anywhere, and am a purist to a fault sometimes.
But, if you think that it's worthwhile, I would incoporate it, all for the sake of improvement.
The great questions are:
Will training with a kickboard make me a better, faster, super awesome swimmer?
And, if you train with one--why? Or, why not?
Thanks everybody (you know you're my outlet!)
JoAnne -aka, Jerrycat ;)
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Originally posted by lefty
Ion,
I am impressed that you can do 50M kick sets on 55. A few years back I could do that, but I was going a 23 in the 50 M free then. You weren't kidding when you said that you have a strong kick.
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The coach who trained Steve Crocker (U.S.) in the early 90s, says that I am fearsome in kicking and that I should be a fearsome sprinter.
Like being able to do 24 seconds for the 50 meter free Long Course.
The challenge that I battle is that I have a slow upper body, strong as in having benchpressed 320 pounds for a 158 body weigh in 1998 and having benchpressed 290 pounds for a 162 body weigh in 2002, but slow.
It might be due to the fact that when pulling I am not getting a big enough distance per stroke, and I speculate that it is because of not having enough blood vessels going from the heart to the triceps due to my late start in swimming when the body was already grown (i.e.: I joined my first ever swimming club at age 28).
How is it that I have blood vessels going from the heart into the quadriceps, given the same factor of starting late in swimming, I don't know.
In kicking I have a gift -which it seems here that I can still further (with stronger hamstrings)-, and if this gift was matched with a faster upper body, then that would put me into a superior level of swimming.
Originally posted by lefty
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Kicking with a board is great exercise and it is a good for swimmers to do. However, I would compare it to running. A great thing to do, but won't necessarily help your technique.
One last thing, who was the South African swimmer who was actually the best sprinter in the world in the late 80's. I think he went a 22.0 in the 50 but his WR wasn't recognized.
Kicking with a board for long distances would help develop the quadriceps and the ankle flexibility.
Not the technique, but the quadriceps muscles only.
I believe the South African sprinter strong in the late 80s and early 90s, was Peter Williams.
He swam 22.83 in the 50 meter free Long Course in 1990, for #12 in the world that year, but 1990 was a worldwide vintage year for sprinting (with Tom Jager's 21.81 and Matt Biondi's 21.85) while Williams was peaking out by then.
Originally posted by lefty
Ion,
I am impressed that you can do 50M kick sets on 55. A few years back I could do that, but I was going a 23 in the 50 M free then. You weren't kidding when you said that you have a strong kick.
...
The coach who trained Steve Crocker (U.S.) in the early 90s, says that I am fearsome in kicking and that I should be a fearsome sprinter.
Like being able to do 24 seconds for the 50 meter free Long Course.
The challenge that I battle is that I have a slow upper body, strong as in having benchpressed 320 pounds for a 158 body weigh in 1998 and having benchpressed 290 pounds for a 162 body weigh in 2002, but slow.
It might be due to the fact that when pulling I am not getting a big enough distance per stroke, and I speculate that it is because of not having enough blood vessels going from the heart to the triceps due to my late start in swimming when the body was already grown (i.e.: I joined my first ever swimming club at age 28).
How is it that I have blood vessels going from the heart into the quadriceps, given the same factor of starting late in swimming, I don't know.
In kicking I have a gift -which it seems here that I can still further (with stronger hamstrings)-, and if this gift was matched with a faster upper body, then that would put me into a superior level of swimming.
Originally posted by lefty
...
Kicking with a board is great exercise and it is a good for swimmers to do. However, I would compare it to running. A great thing to do, but won't necessarily help your technique.
One last thing, who was the South African swimmer who was actually the best sprinter in the world in the late 80's. I think he went a 22.0 in the 50 but his WR wasn't recognized.
Kicking with a board for long distances would help develop the quadriceps and the ankle flexibility.
Not the technique, but the quadriceps muscles only.
I believe the South African sprinter strong in the late 80s and early 90s, was Peter Williams.
He swam 22.83 in the 50 meter free Long Course in 1990, for #12 in the world that year, but 1990 was a worldwide vintage year for sprinting (with Tom Jager's 21.81 and Matt Biondi's 21.85) while Williams was peaking out by then.
