In the overgrown jungle known as "the Fastest Age", this idea came up:
Originally posted by gull80
I thought that anchoring was more a figure of speech, although I did read in TI that your arms/shoulders are much less important than your core muscles (which I still find hard to believe).
I brought up the baseball pitcher analogy that is popular. Craig mentioned he knew of that example, but the pitcher gets to push off the ground. I gave a counter example of throwing in water polo (in an all-deep pool ;) ). At that point, we both got sucked back into... ah... another discussion.
I wanted to start this thread, to see if it would yield any interesting insights. I was talking to a Masters swimmer who went to a training camp at the Olympic Training Center, and she mentioned that the main emphasis was to engage the core muscles during your swim.
I'm certain that I am not using ideal power transfer. I hope that I am not misrepresenting Craig, in saying he is not sure about how this is done.
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Originally posted by Scansy
I tried to really focus on this in a workout once. I figured I would do it for the whole workout - hah! I fatigued quickly :( - I guess because I was using my core muscles - larger than the muscles in my arms. BUT - I was faster for the first couple hundred before I fatigued.
Since then, I have tried to work it in more gradually. I have improved, but still have a long way to go. One thing that helped is that I do 1500-2000 yards over the course of a week of butterfly kicking without a board. This works the core muscles a lot - especially abs and lower back. So far, I have done this mostly on my stomach, but I want to integrate more on my side and back - the different positions work different muscles. Much like different styles of crunches work different abs.
This is so true for me as well, I just sort of got to that level couple of months ago. Right down to the butterfly workouts.
Originally posted by Scansy
I tried to really focus on this in a workout once. I figured I would do it for the whole workout - hah! I fatigued quickly :( - I guess because I was using my core muscles - larger than the muscles in my arms. BUT - I was faster for the first couple hundred before I fatigued.
Since then, I have tried to work it in more gradually. I have improved, but still have a long way to go. One thing that helped is that I do 1500-2000 yards over the course of a week of butterfly kicking without a board. This works the core muscles a lot - especially abs and lower back. So far, I have done this mostly on my stomach, but I want to integrate more on my side and back - the different positions work different muscles. Much like different styles of crunches work different abs.
This is so true for me as well, I just sort of got to that level couple of months ago. Right down to the butterfly workouts.
