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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Craig,
Two norwegians were taking a lifeguarding class. One asked the other: "Do you know how to save a Swede from drowning?" the one said. "No," his friend said after a little while. The first Norwegian grinned, "Oh, That's good." :D
OK, back to the subject of the thread...
Lately I've been trying to dedicate myself to drills more than usual. My freestyle needs a lot of correction, and especially the left arm entry, which I tend to do with my elbow too low, slapping the water instead of entering hand-forearm-elbow-upperarm-shoulder. So today, my program said: "500m freestyle drills"... I did 200, then went on to do a really tough set of 6 x 200m followed by 4 x 100m followed by ...
and I realized why drills are not popular: they are HARD! I'd much rather do 6x 200m any day, and 200's are not exactly my faves...
But, I do believe in drills and will do my best to up the ante.
Takk!
Mary
Craig,
Two norwegians were taking a lifeguarding class. One asked the other: "Do you know how to save a Swede from drowning?" the one said. "No," his friend said after a little while. The first Norwegian grinned, "Oh, That's good." :D
OK, back to the subject of the thread...
Lately I've been trying to dedicate myself to drills more than usual. My freestyle needs a lot of correction, and especially the left arm entry, which I tend to do with my elbow too low, slapping the water instead of entering hand-forearm-elbow-upperarm-shoulder. So today, my program said: "500m freestyle drills"... I did 200, then went on to do a really tough set of 6 x 200m followed by 4 x 100m followed by ...
and I realized why drills are not popular: they are HARD! I'd much rather do 6x 200m any day, and 200's are not exactly my faves...
But, I do believe in drills and will do my best to up the ante.
Takk!
Mary
