Ok just back from my workout and want to share the wealth...
Tip 1) Breathing works better if you do it above the surface.
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Try to land softly with your arms (wider than your shoulders) and lead each entry with your chest and head lower than your arms. This will create a body wave that will lift you up to breathe without having to depend so heavily on your legs to kick you up.
I'll give that a shot on Friday. I think I may have stumbled on that couple of weeeks ago when I really thought about pushing the chest down for arm entry and then sort of see-sawing the hips down for the arm exit. I just haven't been able to re-locate it...I'll try some slower walk throughs of it.
I'm doing 1500 free before working on Fly and IM...I think it's taking a little too much out of me (even though it's very slow), since my body is relying on the muscles to cope with fly right now until I "get it." So I'm going to cut down the free, and hopefully that will help. I did hack through an IM 100 though at the end of workout...it was ugly but I completed it...which is what I needed to do mentally. Only got to 2300...but Rome was not built in a day.
Try to land softly with your arms (wider than your shoulders) and lead each entry with your chest and head lower than your arms. This will create a body wave that will lift you up to breathe without having to depend so heavily on your legs to kick you up.
I'll give that a shot on Friday. I think I may have stumbled on that couple of weeeks ago when I really thought about pushing the chest down for arm entry and then sort of see-sawing the hips down for the arm exit. I just haven't been able to re-locate it...I'll try some slower walk throughs of it.
I'm doing 1500 free before working on Fly and IM...I think it's taking a little too much out of me (even though it's very slow), since my body is relying on the muscles to cope with fly right now until I "get it." So I'm going to cut down the free, and hopefully that will help. I did hack through an IM 100 though at the end of workout...it was ugly but I completed it...which is what I needed to do mentally. Only got to 2300...but Rome was not built in a day.
