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.
good job
on the day's when you dfo your test kick
do a gentle kicking warmup then
shred on the fast one
ande
I did the 4x (3x25 on :45) today. Each set of 3 was 2 easy free, 1 FAST flutterkick with board. Went 21, 22, 23, 21 for the kicks (yards, sadly). On each successive one, the point at which I was exhausted moved further back from the wall. My legs were done at about 7 or 8 yards from the wall on the last one (i.e., after 17 or 18 yards of kicking).
good job
on the day's when you dfo your test kick
do a gentle kicking warmup then
shred on the fast one
ande
I did the 4x (3x25 on :45) today. Each set of 3 was 2 easy free, 1 FAST flutterkick with board. Went 21, 22, 23, 21 for the kicks (yards, sadly). On each successive one, the point at which I was exhausted moved further back from the wall. My legs were done at about 7 or 8 yards from the wall on the last one (i.e., after 17 or 18 yards of kicking).
