To quote Gull: What is the right mix of technique and endurance for a Masters athlete (who wants to be competitive, say, at Nationals) with a finite amount of time to train?
There's a difference between trying to mirror the world's best and figuring out how you swim best. There are tons of fads in training or maybe pendlum swings is a better analogy? There are times like in the 70s when it was all about cranking out the yardage, no matter the technique. Then it became more about finesse, and I think there seems to be a return to yardage cranking.
Michael Phelps may take a breath every stroke on fly, but that hardly means it is the most efficient way for everyone to swim it. Doing that just because he does is following a fad. Figuring out that for a 100 you will swim faster if you breath every 3 is not. You have to do what works for you, I think that was the point.
There's a difference between trying to mirror the world's best and figuring out how you swim best. There are tons of fads in training or maybe pendlum swings is a better analogy? There are times like in the 70s when it was all about cranking out the yardage, no matter the technique. Then it became more about finesse, and I think there seems to be a return to yardage cranking.
Michael Phelps may take a breath every stroke on fly, but that hardly means it is the most efficient way for everyone to swim it. Doing that just because he does is following a fad. Figuring out that for a 100 you will swim faster if you breath every 3 is not. You have to do what works for you, I think that was the point.
