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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All of my training is interval swimming all of my warm ups are over the distance I would swim in a race. Warmups are usually done as pyramids mixing strokes, never breaststroke with a kick, I do arms only breaststroke, sculling and kicking, flutter or dolphin kick. I do Lots of 25s, 50s, and 75s interval swimming varied rests from 5 seconds to 1 or 2 minutes dependent on how fast I do my swims. I do over distance non stop swims of 400s but do not consider this training I think of it as physical base conditioning. I also do my situps arching , leg lifts, hips on the floor push ups. I walk 5 miles a day and ride the bicycle about 5 miles a day. I do not do weights.
My race events would be 50 or 100 Fly, 50 or 100 Free if I were to compete.
I do not race I have too many friends who have passed on in the pool working too hard.
George,
do you believe in interval training?
All of my training is interval swimming all of my warm ups are over the distance I would swim in a race. Warmups are usually done as pyramids mixing strokes, never breaststroke with a kick, I do arms only breaststroke, sculling and kicking, flutter or dolphin kick. I do Lots of 25s, 50s, and 75s interval swimming varied rests from 5 seconds to 1 or 2 minutes dependent on how fast I do my swims. I do over distance non stop swims of 400s but do not consider this training I think of it as physical base conditioning. I also do my situps arching , leg lifts, hips on the floor push ups. I walk 5 miles a day and ride the bicycle about 5 miles a day. I do not do weights.
My race events would be 50 or 100 Fly, 50 or 100 Free if I were to compete.
I do not race I have too many friends who have passed on in the pool working too hard.
George,
do you believe in interval training?
