I've switched strokes to use the lats more and it take a while to get used too but it's not hard to get...you'll feel a power surge I think too.
Of all the muscles that get sore from swimming, my lats never do. How do you make more use of your lats without a major elbow drop?
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The way I get my lats into the stroke is to keep my elbows high, and concentrate on getting a strong torso rotation to the pulling side. If I just reach over my head and mimic the "over the barrel" catch, I can feel the lats on the pulling side engage.
By the end of a 2-mile+ race, I am really feeling my lats and my hip flexors. Those also get sore after a hard training week.
Something like that is what I do now, I'm rotating and using the lats to throw the arm forward with the hand acting as a weight at the end of the line.
Drive the hand down for the EVF position, catch, hold, throw the recovering arm, as it reaches periphery, rotate. Something like that.
It's definitely not a high elbow, push the hand stroke. Doesn't mean drop your elbows but there's nt element of fingertip drag to it.
We'll see how this goes. It's new for me.
The way I get my lats into the stroke is to keep my elbows high, and concentrate on getting a strong torso rotation to the pulling side. If I just reach over my head and mimic the "over the barrel" catch, I can feel the lats on the pulling side engage.
By the end of a 2-mile+ race, I am really feeling my lats and my hip flexors. Those also get sore after a hard training week.
Something like that is what I do now, I'm rotating and using the lats to throw the arm forward with the hand acting as a weight at the end of the line.
Drive the hand down for the EVF position, catch, hold, throw the recovering arm, as it reaches periphery, rotate. Something like that.
It's definitely not a high elbow, push the hand stroke. Doesn't mean drop your elbows but there's nt element of fingertip drag to it.
We'll see how this goes. It's new for me.
