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.
Anybody here working on your flutter kick, SDK or sprint speed?
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It works if you work it!
I never really used to do much kick in my workouts. Now I try to do a "significant amount" of flutter kick w/ board after my initial warmups. I find if I wait till later in the workouts and then try to kick hard I end up cramping in my calves.
I used to have a hard time even doing 1:00s for 50 of kick, granted I wasn't putting that much effort into it.
Now I'm doing sets of 50s @ :55 holding :45s or so, and yesterday I did 10 @ :55, then 10 @ :50, also holding 45s.
I switch it up with distances as well: 75s, 100s, & 125s. My intervals are all starting to come down too. I know this is helping me when it comes to racing, though I'm don't purposely put the effort into my kick in a race.
Anybody here working on your flutter kick, SDK or sprint speed?
follow the program and post your results
It works if you work it!
I never really used to do much kick in my workouts. Now I try to do a "significant amount" of flutter kick w/ board after my initial warmups. I find if I wait till later in the workouts and then try to kick hard I end up cramping in my calves.
I used to have a hard time even doing 1:00s for 50 of kick, granted I wasn't putting that much effort into it.
Now I'm doing sets of 50s @ :55 holding :45s or so, and yesterday I did 10 @ :55, then 10 @ :50, also holding 45s.
I switch it up with distances as well: 75s, 100s, & 125s. My intervals are all starting to come down too. I know this is helping me when it comes to racing, though I'm don't purposely put the effort into my kick in a race.
