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.
Did about 1100 yds warmup, then an easy 25 flutterkick, then attempted to blast a 25. Went 21, sigh. I'd told myself if I could beat 20, I was done kicking for the day. So...
Repeated the 4x (3x25 on :45). Each set of 3 was 2 easy free, 1 FAST flutterkick with board. Went 22, 23, 21, 22 for the kicks (yards).
On the bright side, I followed the kicking with an IM set, some pulling and then finished with 4x25 SDK on :45, with the goal being to get further underwater on each one. It took about 15 kicks to get to the middle of the pool on the first one, and then by the last I did my first ever all underwater SDK (26 kicks, hahaha)
Worth noting that this (albeit small) amount of hard kicking turned an otherwise recovery workout into a decent practice and got my heart rate up. :) Tuesdays are distance free for our club, so my arms were still a bit too trashed to do any real hard swimming today.
Did about 1100 yds warmup, then an easy 25 flutterkick, then attempted to blast a 25. Went 21, sigh. I'd told myself if I could beat 20, I was done kicking for the day. So...
Repeated the 4x (3x25 on :45). Each set of 3 was 2 easy free, 1 FAST flutterkick with board. Went 22, 23, 21, 22 for the kicks (yards).
On the bright side, I followed the kicking with an IM set, some pulling and then finished with 4x25 SDK on :45, with the goal being to get further underwater on each one. It took about 15 kicks to get to the middle of the pool on the first one, and then by the last I did my first ever all underwater SDK (26 kicks, hahaha)
Worth noting that this (albeit small) amount of hard kicking turned an otherwise recovery workout into a decent practice and got my heart rate up. :) Tuesdays are distance free for our club, so my arms were still a bit too trashed to do any real hard swimming today.
