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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Hi Morgan. I've heard that sprinters should swim flatter than distance swimmers. If you look at Cullen Jones, Natalie Coughlin, Jodie Henry, Gary Hall Jr., Neil Walker, etc. they do not rotate a lot. The TREND seems to be to swim flatter when you sprint and rotate more on distance ... just my 2 cents ... or as my first graders would spell it sents ... :2cents:
Power and speed in a 50 comes from your legs. If you are not exceptionally strong you will have difficulty rotating your body and integrating your pull while kicking at 100% effort. But even if you are exceptionally strong, your 50 body position will be flatter than your mile (or atleast should be). KaizenSwimmer is right on, the best sprinters are the ones who can kick like mad, but strong enough to maintain some sort of reasonable stroke.
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Hi Morgan. I've heard that sprinters should swim flatter than distance swimmers. If you look at Cullen Jones, Natalie Coughlin, Jodie Henry, Gary Hall Jr., Neil Walker, etc. they do not rotate a lot. The TREND seems to be to swim flatter when you sprint and rotate more on distance ... just my 2 cents ... or as my first graders would spell it sents ... :2cents:
Power and speed in a 50 comes from your legs. If you are not exceptionally strong you will have difficulty rotating your body and integrating your pull while kicking at 100% effort. But even if you are exceptionally strong, your 50 body position will be flatter than your mile (or atleast should be). KaizenSwimmer is right on, the best sprinters are the ones who can kick like mad, but strong enough to maintain some sort of reasonable stroke.