What I say is you do not have to spend a lot of time on the kick, the kick can be incorporated into your full stroke swimming.
The way a few go on is the kick is more important then the arms.
An old argument, of course...basically, you are saying that the best way to train for competitive swimming is to swim. And it is true: the vast majority of swimmers spend much more time swimming than doing anything else.
But if you apply this reasoning to its extreme, then all of the following should be dropped in favor of devoting the time to more swimming: weights, Pilates, situps, pushups, pullups, kicking, pulling, yoga, stretching, etc etc etc. People differ about the relative merits of all of these things, but almost all swimmers do something besides straight swimming all the time.
Besides the training benefits (which I believe are substantial), it would be too boring otherwise!
What I say is you do not have to spend a lot of time on the kick, the kick can be incorporated into your full stroke swimming.
The way a few go on is the kick is more important then the arms.
An old argument, of course...basically, you are saying that the best way to train for competitive swimming is to swim. And it is true: the vast majority of swimmers spend much more time swimming than doing anything else.
But if you apply this reasoning to its extreme, then all of the following should be dropped in favor of devoting the time to more swimming: weights, Pilates, situps, pushups, pullups, kicking, pulling, yoga, stretching, etc etc etc. People differ about the relative merits of all of these things, but almost all swimmers do something besides straight swimming all the time.
Besides the training benefits (which I believe are substantial), it would be too boring otherwise!
