when I swim at a middle distance race pace, like if im doing 5 x 100 on a quick interval my muscles get tired faster than my heart. I wont even be breathing hard but my arms are tired and causes my stroke techinque to go bad quick. Does anyone else have this problem.
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My coach calls that golf too though.
Actually we do a serious of "swolfs" We swim a 50, with the lowest stroke count we can get...and get our time for the 50. You add your # of strokes to your time..thats your swolf score. Then you try to increase your speed (lower your time), which generally will mean increasing your stroke rate...but you want to maintain your original swolf score, or better it.
This is really hard for me, because I tend to take a zillion strokes and swim really fast. So I can get a really good swolf score, but only because I can do the 50 in a relatively quick time. But, I have been working on taking less strokes as I increase my stroke rate...rotating more and more and more--thats all I ever hear!
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My coach calls that golf too though.
Actually we do a serious of "swolfs" We swim a 50, with the lowest stroke count we can get...and get our time for the 50. You add your # of strokes to your time..thats your swolf score. Then you try to increase your speed (lower your time), which generally will mean increasing your stroke rate...but you want to maintain your original swolf score, or better it.
This is really hard for me, because I tend to take a zillion strokes and swim really fast. So I can get a really good swolf score, but only because I can do the 50 in a relatively quick time. But, I have been working on taking less strokes as I increase my stroke rate...rotating more and more and more--thats all I ever hear!
