Hello everyone! I, like many others, am getting back into swimming after taking about 5 years off. I swam distance in high school and joined masters in college. Through those years, I religiously flip turned during each workout/race. Now that I'm getting back into the swing of things, I've come to realize that flipping concumes a great deal of energy. So here is my question, since I'm starting over from scratch, do I flip or not during my workouts? My ultimate goal is to build enough distance to re-join a masters program. Do I flip or not flip, that is my question.
Thanks!
Kristen
It shouldn't and I don't think it will once you get back in shape. Doing freestyle with all open turns sounds much more tiring to me.
Seriously. I'm an "evil-stroke" swimmer but a good deal of my training is freestyle. Once you can do flipturns (and they are habit) it's annoying to have to stop and turn at the wall. It kills your momentum to have to do an open turn. And, they ONLY way to get better at flipturns is to DO them...
It shouldn't and I don't think it will once you get back in shape. Doing freestyle with all open turns sounds much more tiring to me.
Seriously. I'm an "evil-stroke" swimmer but a good deal of my training is freestyle. Once you can do flipturns (and they are habit) it's annoying to have to stop and turn at the wall. It kills your momentum to have to do an open turn. And, they ONLY way to get better at flipturns is to DO them...
