Geochuck's: Kicking is a Total Waste of Time Thread

So perhaps the answer is to SLOW DOWN and pay REALLY CLOSE ATTENTION to your kick while swimming. This would also qualify as a kicking set, however you would be doing full stroke swimming. It is just that the focus would be on kicking while swimming instead of say a focus on hand entry or elbow position. For me, this is the most difficult exercise. It is far easier for me to grind out lots of kicking sets with a board. While there has been quite a big improvement in my kicking and (probably most importantly) a strengthening of my core and an increase in aerobic capacity as a direct result of kicking sets, I still fear that it hasn't helped me much in my swimming. I think I have got better at kicking with a board but haven't improved much in integrating that kick into my swimming stroke. I find it very difficult to maintain concentration on my kick. I can manage about 50m of a 200 and then my mind wanders off only to come again in the final 50, by which point I am so exhausted that I can't kick anyway. The only way for me to do it is to slow right down and do 25's or 50's.

So perhaps the answer is to SLOW DOWN and pay REALLY CLOSE ATTENTION to your kick while swimming. This would also qualify as a kicking set, however you would be doing full stroke swimming. It is just that the focus would be on kicking while swimming instead of say a focus on hand entry or elbow position. For me, this is the most difficult exercise. It is far easier for me to grind out lots of kicking sets with a board. While there has been quite a big improvement in my kicking and (probably most importantly) a strengthening of my core and an increase in aerobic capacity as a direct result of kicking sets, I still fear that it hasn't helped me much in my swimming. I think I have got better at kicking with a board but haven't improved much in integrating that kick into my swimming stroke. I find it very difficult to maintain concentration on my kick. I can manage about 50m of a 200 and then my mind wanders off only to come again in the final 50, by which point I am so exhausted that I can't kick anyway. The only way for me to do it is to slow right down and do 25's or 50's.