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.
that's good
I'm curious how you split it
many swimmers have a tendancy to kick 100's way too hard on the first 50 leaving themselves not much for the 2nd 50
you want to keep your splits within 0 to 3 seconds
first 50 should be easy speed,
build 3rd 25 ,
give the 4th 25 every thing you've got
All right I know I just posted this morning but I went back to the pool this evening to do another kick workout (what can I say I'm a college student that has a lot of free-time and doesn't really have much desire to study on a Monday afternoon and I don't have work until Wednesday so I :dunno:).
SCM pool
Warmup was 400 free + 300 done 75 bk/25 br
Than I did my main set:
8x100 flutter kick w/board---after each 100 jump out do 20 pushups, jump back in, rest 10s and repeat. I held 1:52-53, before the last one I rested 1 minute and went AFAP and did a 1:45! Pretty happy about that.
The rest of the workout was survival mode as my legs were pretty drained at this point. Feel good about the effort today.
that's good
I'm curious how you split it
many swimmers have a tendancy to kick 100's way too hard on the first 50 leaving themselves not much for the 2nd 50
you want to keep your splits within 0 to 3 seconds
first 50 should be easy speed,
build 3rd 25 ,
give the 4th 25 every thing you've got
All right I know I just posted this morning but I went back to the pool this evening to do another kick workout (what can I say I'm a college student that has a lot of free-time and doesn't really have much desire to study on a Monday afternoon and I don't have work until Wednesday so I :dunno:).
SCM pool
Warmup was 400 free + 300 done 75 bk/25 br
Than I did my main set:
8x100 flutter kick w/board---after each 100 jump out do 20 pushups, jump back in, rest 10s and repeat. I held 1:52-53, before the last one I rested 1 minute and went AFAP and did a 1:45! Pretty happy about that.
The rest of the workout was survival mode as my legs were pretty drained at this point. Feel good about the effort today.
