Anyone have any good drills/ideas/thoughts for working on streamlining off the wall? I've been concentrating on increasing the power in the dolphin kicks, but I know I need to work on my streamline, too. I know what I'm supposed to do (head down, squeeze ears with arm muscles, hand over hand, etc.) but find my technique falling apart as I tire during the workout.
I'm not very flexible, and find stretching my arms out to where I squeeze my ears sort of uncomfortable, or at least unnatural feeling, even when I'm fresh. That same position becomes more unnatural feeling as my arm muscles tire. I can hold it OK for a little while when I concentrate, but usually after a couple hundred meters I will "wake up" in a pushoff to find my elbws slightly bent and arms away from my head by a couple of inches, which I know is really inefficient.
I've been trying to just "assume the position" at home periodically, and incorporate it into my warmup stretching. I am self-coached, with no video opportunity -- but I know video would show a crummy steamline. I've watched the eeswim stuff, and can clearly see and visualize what a great streamline looks like, but mine's not there. Any thoughts?
Thanks.
For a small town, it ain't bad. The tank is 25 m x 25 yards, always set up meters for lap swim. There are 2 largish windows at the deep end, parallel to the meters direction. There is some kind of a dark, dank, subterranean cavern behind them to which I have never been admitted. Our pool staff is pretty nice and helpful to the lap swimmers. Usually they'll pull an extra lane if they see more than one swimmer in a lane. A couple of the guards offered to run video for us, and they said we can use the cavern.
I think they feel sorry for us after watching us struggle with the butterfly.
For a small town, it ain't bad. The tank is 25 m x 25 yards, always set up meters for lap swim. There are 2 largish windows at the deep end, parallel to the meters direction. There is some kind of a dark, dank, subterranean cavern behind them to which I have never been admitted. Our pool staff is pretty nice and helpful to the lap swimmers. Usually they'll pull an extra lane if they see more than one swimmer in a lane. A couple of the guards offered to run video for us, and they said we can use the cavern.
I think they feel sorry for us after watching us struggle with the butterfly.
