Sprinting Question

Originally posted by 330man When sprinting, you are bound to have less body rotation than when you are swimming for distance. How do you keep your elbow below the plane of your back on recovery when your body is traveling in a relatively flat manner? Or do you? I happend to be on the deck recently while the rest of the club were doing sprints: Most of the fast lane guys would have a race pace of ~28 secs for 50m LC while the best guy would be ~24sec It was very interesting to see how little the majority of the guys rotated while sprinting, they just seemed to rock a little from side to side, I noticed the most of them seemed to arch their back a lot while sprinting, I don't know the reason for this, anybode got an opinion? The bow wave they generated seemed very wide also. The best guy however seemed to keep a much better head position and maintained good shoulder rotation his stroke rate was much lower than the others for the same speed.

Originally posted by 330man When sprinting, you are bound to have less body rotation than when you are swimming for distance. How do you keep your elbow below the plane of your back on recovery when your body is traveling in a relatively flat manner? Or do you? I happend to be on the deck recently while the rest of the club were doing sprints: Most of the fast lane guys would have a race pace of ~28 secs for 50m LC while the best guy would be ~24sec It was very interesting to see how little the majority of the guys rotated while sprinting, they just seemed to rock a little from side to side, I noticed the most of them seemed to arch their back a lot while sprinting, I don't know the reason for this, anybode got an opinion? The bow wave they generated seemed very wide also. The best guy however seemed to keep a much better head position and maintained good shoulder rotation his stroke rate was much lower than the others for the same speed.