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.
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Time to revive this thread : Long Life at the "Help My Flutter Kick is Horrible!" club.
July look a good time for me to intesify the training with more spare time, before a very light august, to be fresh again at the start of "new" season at mid-September.
The kicking improvement is still coming a good paces.
My time is down at 24.3 secs, another drop by 1 sec in last month, without any weight lifting only swimming.
looking to try to bring it down to 23.5-23, maybe even a little more, before the end of July.
I've just starter to use a pair of fins (tyr split fins), to find out if they're of any real help about kicking, I've read mixed opinions, but a lot of (all ?) elite swimmers use it so I've great expectation. After the first try they fits great, no pain, I fly on the water, but they've throw off a little bit my regular kicking with too much thrashing the water just after that I've finished to use it but it was only the first time...
I've received also a snorkel, a excellent tools to improve my balance and try to kick in perfect swimming position without brother about turning for air or using the kickboard.
I'll report back at the next update if they've really helped me.
Recap :
(Push off the wall, kickboard, Timing Myself, SCM pool, 25m )
- Early October 45.0
- Early january 30.5s
- 2/9 28.1 secs
- 3/1 27.4 secs
- 5/10 26.8 secs
- 5/28 25.4 secs
- 7/2 24.3 secs
Time to revive this thread : Long Life at the "Help My Flutter Kick is Horrible!" club.
July look a good time for me to intesify the training with more spare time, before a very light august, to be fresh again at the start of "new" season at mid-September.
The kicking improvement is still coming a good paces.
My time is down at 24.3 secs, another drop by 1 sec in last month, without any weight lifting only swimming.
looking to try to bring it down to 23.5-23, maybe even a little more, before the end of July.
I've just starter to use a pair of fins (tyr split fins), to find out if they're of any real help about kicking, I've read mixed opinions, but a lot of (all ?) elite swimmers use it so I've great expectation. After the first try they fits great, no pain, I fly on the water, but they've throw off a little bit my regular kicking with too much thrashing the water just after that I've finished to use it but it was only the first time...
I've received also a snorkel, a excellent tools to improve my balance and try to kick in perfect swimming position without brother about turning for air or using the kickboard.
I'll report back at the next update if they've really helped me.
Recap :
(Push off the wall, kickboard, Timing Myself, SCM pool, 25m )
- Early October 45.0
- Early january 30.5s
- 2/9 28.1 secs
- 3/1 27.4 secs
- 5/10 26.8 secs
- 5/28 25.4 secs
- 7/2 24.3 secs
