Not sure if this goes in this forum or not, but I could really use some help on this. I finally have got my freestyle times to be below 40 sec. consistenly for 50 yds (i know it's slow but it's the fastest I've ever been personally), and now I would like my backstroke times to come down. I feel like I've tried everything I know to make them faster and I'm feeling kind of stuck. I do some interval training but they still seem to be in the mid-40's for 50 yds. I think I roll enough (I show my shoulder on every stroke) and my kick is decent, but when I kick hard, I feel like I sink. I've tried everything that I can think of and all kinds of combinations of kicking and arm speed to get myself to go faster and no matter what I do, I still can't get my times to come down. So anyway, now that I'm done complaining (sorry)I was wondering if anyone had any tips to help me out? Thanx a bunch!!
~Kyra
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The flow of the water isn't going up your nose, it's going against your body so it'd be going the opposite direction. I really don't get it, I am fairly gifted genetically though ;)
No, those 25 kicks would be on your back, I can pop out at 15m on underwater dolphin kick on my back no prob (well off of the first wall, it's all down hill after that) Build up to it! Make sure you are in a super tight streamline, have good technique on your kick. Go as far as you can, pop up for air, go back down ...
The flow of the water isn't going up your nose, it's going against your body so it'd be going the opposite direction. I really don't get it, I am fairly gifted genetically though ;)
No, those 25 kicks would be on your back, I can pop out at 15m on underwater dolphin kick on my back no prob (well off of the first wall, it's all down hill after that) Build up to it! Make sure you are in a super tight streamline, have good technique on your kick. Go as far as you can, pop up for air, go back down ...
