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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WTH is up with the haters on this thread? Ande is simply trying to help people who would like to improve their kicking. This is not the "Is kicking worth the trouble?" thread. I can tell you that by following his advice my kicking improved greatly and my swimming ABSOLUTELY got faster as well. My priorities have shifted to other things lately but the nice thing is that it doesn't take near as much work to get back up to speed now. My muscles remember what to do, it just hurts at first. Basically my flutter kick is no longer "horrible".
Thanks Ande.
It's not "hating" by asking if adult swimmers should spend their limitied training time focusing on kicking or if it would be better to focus on whole stroke swimming where the kick is trained along with the rest of body.
WTH is up with the haters on this thread? Ande is simply trying to help people who would like to improve their kicking. This is not the "Is kicking worth the trouble?" thread. I can tell you that by following his advice my kicking improved greatly and my swimming ABSOLUTELY got faster as well. My priorities have shifted to other things lately but the nice thing is that it doesn't take near as much work to get back up to speed now. My muscles remember what to do, it just hurts at first. Basically my flutter kick is no longer "horrible".
Thanks Ande.
It's not "hating" by asking if adult swimmers should spend their limitied training time focusing on kicking or if it would be better to focus on whole stroke swimming where the kick is trained along with the rest of body.
