I am slow, and when I mean slow, I mean slow. I can do a 26 sec 50 with fins, but without I come in just under 1:20! I think a big part of it is just taking the fins off and doing a lot of kick sets to learn to feel the water better with my feet. I have a good breaststroke kick so I don't think my problem is an overly weak pair of legs, although they could be in better shape. Also, myankles are fairly flexible as I can point my toes and make my feet bend backwards past an even position with my shins. However, I do think that I need to loosen up my ankles when I kick. I feel like I get more out of my kick for those brief moments when I allow my ankles to snap back and forth with my kick. I think I actually need to relax more to kick faster as weird as that sounds.
I suppose the answer to my question is that I simply need to take of the fins and do kick set after kick set until I learn to feel the water better with my feet and become more efficient.
Legs (Kick) asists in forward movement if properly integrated into the full stroke but are not a great propulsive force in the front crawl. (My opinion)
Just to let you know that I do a little kicking here are a few of my workouts
I even use flippers occassionaly.
Day 2 - 1000 meter workout
200 Warm up 2 x 100, 25 Free, 25 Kick, 25 Arms only, 25 free, 10 sec rest
1 x 200 Free 20 sec rest
2 x 100 Free 20 sec rest
3 x 50 Free 20s rest
250 Cooldown
Day 3 - 1000 meter workout
300m Warm up 100m Crawl, 50m Catch up crawl, 50m *** using dolphin kick, 50m Scull & flutter kick on the back, 50m Crawl.
500m Workout,
20 x 25m on 30 seconds, first 5 fly, next 15 crawl
200m cool down loosen up.
Day 4 - 1000 meter workout
250 warm up front crawl bilateral breathing.
500 meter work out
10 x 50m crawl on 60 seconds
250 cool down very loose.
Day 5 - 1000 meter Workout fins
WU with fins 150m Crawl and 50m crawl kick
600m with fins Crawl 6 x 100 on 1:50 descending times
200m Crawl cool down no fins
Legs (Kick) asists in forward movement if properly integrated into the full stroke but are not a great propulsive force in the front crawl. (My opinion)
Just to let you know that I do a little kicking here are a few of my workouts
I even use flippers occassionaly.
Day 2 - 1000 meter workout
200 Warm up 2 x 100, 25 Free, 25 Kick, 25 Arms only, 25 free, 10 sec rest
1 x 200 Free 20 sec rest
2 x 100 Free 20 sec rest
3 x 50 Free 20s rest
250 Cooldown
Day 3 - 1000 meter workout
300m Warm up 100m Crawl, 50m Catch up crawl, 50m *** using dolphin kick, 50m Scull & flutter kick on the back, 50m Crawl.
500m Workout,
20 x 25m on 30 seconds, first 5 fly, next 15 crawl
200m cool down loosen up.
Day 4 - 1000 meter workout
250 warm up front crawl bilateral breathing.
500 meter work out
10 x 50m crawl on 60 seconds
250 cool down very loose.
Day 5 - 1000 meter Workout fins
WU with fins 150m Crawl and 50m crawl kick
600m with fins Crawl 6 x 100 on 1:50 descending times
200m Crawl cool down no fins
