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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I also have the sensation that my sprint freestyle is quite different from my longer distance freestyle. Clearly both are "freestyle" so it isn't a different stroke in that sense but it feels like sprinting is not just the same thing done faster. I have been wondering if this is just because I don't have the skill to maintain the timing and technique I use in middle distance at higher speed, or whether there are real concrete differences in timing. I know that with butterfly I swim "distance fly" very differently than "sprint fly" and while they are both butterfly I think that minimizing the differences to a few differences in timing would be to miss the point because the difference between poor swimming and good swimming is often a matter of timing. For example look at the effort Terry puts into synchronizing his kick and hand entry.
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I also have the sensation that my sprint freestyle is quite different from my longer distance freestyle. Clearly both are "freestyle" so it isn't a different stroke in that sense but it feels like sprinting is not just the same thing done faster. I have been wondering if this is just because I don't have the skill to maintain the timing and technique I use in middle distance at higher speed, or whether there are real concrete differences in timing. I know that with butterfly I swim "distance fly" very differently than "sprint fly" and while they are both butterfly I think that minimizing the differences to a few differences in timing would be to miss the point because the difference between poor swimming and good swimming is often a matter of timing. For example look at the effort Terry puts into synchronizing his kick and hand entry.
