Inspired by some of the discussion in the fly thread , I was wondering how you all feel about drills.
Personally, they drive me nuts, yet everywhere people rave about TI and boy do my coaches like 'em. I find that generally drills just make me feel as though I'm learning to swim a way I will never actually swim, as opposed to helping me focus on one aspect of the stroke. For instance, last night, we were doing breaststroke drills and I spent the entire time trying to learn the drill as opposed to focusing on what we were meant to learn.
Also, I tend to learn technique by figuring out what feels right, but with drills, it feels different because you aren't doing the full stroke.
What about you?
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Originally posted by geochuck
The best swim coach I ever knew always said you have to swim to be good.
The only drills we ever did were arms only, kicking front and back with out a board and bilateral breathing. Lots of fartlicks and timed swims. We did fartlicks or pyramids before they had a name.
'scuse me George, with all respect, I just gotta correct the spelling of:
FARTLEK (färtlk)
NOUN:
An athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous effort in a continuous workout.
ETYMOLOGY:
Swedish, speed play : fart, running, speed (from fara, to go, move, from Old Norse; see per- 2 in Indo-European roots) + lek, play (from leka, to play, from Old Norse leika)
Originally posted by geochuck
The best swim coach I ever knew always said you have to swim to be good.
The only drills we ever did were arms only, kicking front and back with out a board and bilateral breathing. Lots of fartlicks and timed swims. We did fartlicks or pyramids before they had a name.
'scuse me George, with all respect, I just gotta correct the spelling of:
FARTLEK (färtlk)
NOUN:
An athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous effort in a continuous workout.
ETYMOLOGY:
Swedish, speed play : fart, running, speed (from fara, to go, move, from Old Norse; see per- 2 in Indo-European roots) + lek, play (from leka, to play, from Old Norse leika)
