I've been wanting to start doing flip turns again, but every time I try, I wind up dizzy coming out of the turn. Does this happen to anyone else? Can you stop it? How?:confused:
Kae
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So, last Friday I tried flipping with my eyes closed. I didn't get as dizzy, but it was hard to tell if I was going the right direction when I pushed off the wall. Maybe I just need to save the flips for sprints (ha! like I do sprints!). As for the lovely suggestion of spending the last 30 minutes of my workout practicing flip turns, I have a feeling it would drive the other swimmers in the pool insane. Plus, it would be pretty optimisitic to assume that 30 minutes wouldn't cut my workout by half :D (I am working on that, but just not getting the oomph that I need to up my workout. I've been stuck at a mile for a couple months. I keep telling myself "today, I'll add 100" but it never seems to happen. Anyway, new year, new chance, the swim bag's in the truck, so maybe today I'll add 100).
Kae
So, last Friday I tried flipping with my eyes closed. I didn't get as dizzy, but it was hard to tell if I was going the right direction when I pushed off the wall. Maybe I just need to save the flips for sprints (ha! like I do sprints!). As for the lovely suggestion of spending the last 30 minutes of my workout practicing flip turns, I have a feeling it would drive the other swimmers in the pool insane. Plus, it would be pretty optimisitic to assume that 30 minutes wouldn't cut my workout by half :D (I am working on that, but just not getting the oomph that I need to up my workout. I've been stuck at a mile for a couple months. I keep telling myself "today, I'll add 100" but it never seems to happen. Anyway, new year, new chance, the swim bag's in the truck, so maybe today I'll add 100).
Kae
