Originally posted by Paul Smith
Here's the deal folks...forget about weights...if you REALLY want to make a significant break through in your swimming relative to competition stop swimming for 4-8 weeks and go to kick only workouts...as you ease back into swimming you will have the opportunity to "learn" how to integrate a new and powerful element to your stroke...something that 90% of the swimmers I see competing do not do well....
This really caught my attention. I seem to have been hearing this a lot lately: people coming back after a shoulder op, doing kick only workouts and then having their best seasons ever.
I don't doubt the authenticity of it either. I am just interested on what is actually going on. Why should this be the case?
Has anyone ever scientifically measured the amount the kick contributes to forward propulsion? I mean ratio wise, compared to the arms, what would it be? 80% arms : 20% legs?
What about the swimmers who are great kickers in workouts but can't translate it into faster swimming?
How do we actually integrate the kick into our swimming so that it becomes a new and powerful element to our stroke as Paul suggests?
Would it be fair to say that a big part of the improvement these (post op/ focus on kicking )swimmers achieve can be attributed to the strengthened core which is a result of the additional kicking. In other words more credit given to the strengthened core than increased forward propulsion.
I don't know. I just throw out these ideas for discussion.
Syd
Former Member
No, they reseeded the 500 after positive check-in and well after the heat sheets were created on Friday night. I'm 40. So, yes, that was me beside you in the 500.
Here are the results:
www.ncmasters.org/138-01res.pdf
That makes sense now Geek. I was wondering if they reseeded. Fortunately, I stayed in the same lane.
Wanted to make sure I was thinking of the right person! You really do look 30!
Don't know if you get your body fat measured, but I would guess you are in the "superior" range for men your age. Am I right?
Thanks for posting the results. My husband actually emailed me and asked for them!? I think he's got some competition thing going on at his office. Supposedly, there's some girl triathlete who sometimes wins over the men and women and now hubby will get to say the same thing for me. Sheesh. What people entertain themselves with. I hope he doesn't start placing bets on me:doh:
Think of it this way, if I lose I face the humiliation of being "beaten by a girl."
My fastest 1650 is a 17:48. That was at last year's Nationals and not the greatest swim. I haven't really swam a 1000, but my fastest 800 long course is a 9:24.
I could give you five seconds or something for the 500, but then it would be really embarrassing if I lost straight-up!
Against my better judgment, I'll take you up on the grudge match.
I get 5 seconds though on the 500, right?
Can we do the 1650 too for fun? I've never swam it before, so you have a HUGE advantage over me. :rofl: I can't even believe I'm doing this. . .
Deadline is the end of the season?
I hope I don't win. I will start talking some serious smack if by some act of God I sprout a small craft engine and drop tons of time again. . .
Guh. Coach is already making our intervals FASTER. Why do Trials qualifiers and ex-NCAA Div I swimmers have to swim on my team!? They make me:cry::cry::cry:
What did we say the winner got?
Seriously guys this is a forum about swimming...let's keep it that way....
:thhbbb:
:rofl:
You have no chance of winning our next 50fly/50breast grudge race with a pretty boy, non-wrestling name like stud. Fortress is much tougher.
On another note, sorry folks I've not been writing much lately, I did get the flu... I read about y'all getting it, and I was hoping I could avoid it, but alas, it didn't work out that way... I'm just glad it's now instead of right before my taper meet, like last season... I was literally coughing during the 100 IM, on the freestyle leg... cough/gasp/pull, this could be a new event..
Ok, I guess I'm not going to post for a while until this flu thing on the forum goes away. I had it last year, didn't think that was enough, so I drug it over to full-blown pneumonia. I always wondered where I contracted it from.
Seriously though, hope you get to feeling better. :banana:
Well nobody is going to beat you in a race with all that sand in your BR entry...I'm bringing a deck chair to zones...
Hey, when is the next time I can smash you into oblivion? I'm not wasting an event on evilstroke at colonies zones. With my macho forearms from ballerina sculling, I'll smoke you LC.
If this is going to happen, then we need some smack talk. You two are MUCH too nice to each other...it isn't a GRUDGE match unless blood flows prior to the actual swim. :duel:
Then perhaps it's simply at the "Gridge" level for now.
I need a pic of Kirk so I can paste it on my mirror. By season end, I hope to be ready to rip it down just like Rocky did to Ivan Drago in Rocky IV.:rofl:
Kirk could be in a very favorable position here. . . My 5:12 could have been a total fluke. My fastest time in high school was a 5:23 (I set the school record - yes, we were not a "swimming" school." So that could totally be my peak. :D
OK, consider this me virtually spitting in (S)he-Man's lane: hock-tooey!
I plan to virtually smash (S)he-Man like a guitar! :thhbbb:
Okay. No more gridge. Grudge is on.
:duel:
:mooning: you in your virtual lane.
:D
:rofl:
You have no chance of winning our next 50fly/50breast grudge race with a pretty boy, non-wrestling name like stud. Fortress is much tougher.
Well nobody is going to beat you in a race with all that sand in your BR entry...I'm bringing a deck chair to zones...
