Dropping Hips Problem

I'm a newer Older swimmer, age 66, my 25 meter time if I go hard is 45 seconds. The Pull Buoy is my best friend and knocks 12 seconds off my 25 meter time, that more then 25% faster. I have read all the articles on hips drop, which mine do, but would appreciate any drills, suggestions or other choice comments. Bob:fish2: If you are an adult that is new to swimming, then you have to keep in mind what your background is. You probably had a job for the last however many years where you spent the majority of your time sitting down. Your legs are probably not very strong at all. A good amount of the time I spend on adult lessons tends to involve flippers as a result. do a few laps kickboarding with flippers. then do a couple laps streamlining with flippers. then do a couple laps swimming freestyle with flippers. then do all three of those sets over again without flippers. flippers are great. they force you to correct your kick or sink trying. they also add about 5 or 6 inches of prosthetic to your toes that aren't covered in muscle like the rest of your foot. Thus, the remainder of your foot that isn't prosthetic is forced to tow the additional load. in addition, by correcting your kick and adding additional length, the flippers increase your thrust, such that you are more able to do more challenging workouts when you are on them. however, the thing i like best about flippers is doing a workout once you've taken them off. because flippers overload your feet and legs with the additional workload caused by the prosthetic additions, your legs are dead tired when you take them off. when you do a workout without the flippers on after having done a workout with the flippers on, you not only get an opportunity to practice without flippers the things you have learned with them, but you also get to do it under fatigue conditions. This not only ensures that you give every ounce of strength to improving, but it also ensures that when you are swimming and not practicing that you will nonetheless always keep form even when you are fatigued. --Sean

I'm a newer Older swimmer, age 66, my 25 meter time if I go hard is 45 seconds. The Pull Buoy is my best friend and knocks 12 seconds off my 25 meter time, that more then 25% faster. I have read all the articles on hips drop, which mine do, but would appreciate any drills, suggestions or other choice comments. Bob:fish2: If you are an adult that is new to swimming, then you have to keep in mind what your background is. You probably had a job for the last however many years where you spent the majority of your time sitting down. Your legs are probably not very strong at all. A good amount of the time I spend on adult lessons tends to involve flippers as a result. do a few laps kickboarding with flippers. then do a couple laps streamlining with flippers. then do a couple laps swimming freestyle with flippers. then do all three of those sets over again without flippers. flippers are great. they force you to correct your kick or sink trying. they also add about 5 or 6 inches of prosthetic to your toes that aren't covered in muscle like the rest of your foot. Thus, the remainder of your foot that isn't prosthetic is forced to tow the additional load. in addition, by correcting your kick and adding additional length, the flippers increase your thrust, such that you are more able to do more challenging workouts when you are on them. however, the thing i like best about flippers is doing a workout once you've taken them off. because flippers overload your feet and legs with the additional workload caused by the prosthetic additions, your legs are dead tired when you take them off. when you do a workout without the flippers on after having done a workout with the flippers on, you not only get an opportunity to practice without flippers the things you have learned with them, but you also get to do it under fatigue conditions. This not only ensures that you give every ounce of strength to improving, but it also ensures that when you are swimming and not practicing that you will nonetheless always keep form even when you are fatigued. --Sean