OK gang.
The "kicking" bullies have rounded on me even though I had a fantastic swim this weekend. They are telling me I need to kick, my coach said don't over do it b/c it disrupts the stroke...
I can kick, I maybe didn't intergrate it in my 100FR to their approval but I am not convinced that kicking alone is the way to go.
I think working 100's with kick focus is a better way rather than yards and yards at "meh" pace.
What % of your yards do you kick per week, and how much of that is with fins?
depends on the week, but we usually will have at least one really good kick workout every couple of weeks that will make us think twice about taking the stairs out of the building. This week was officially 20.6%, and we had a 1500y kick set last night.
In the last month, there have been several nights without much straight "kick" where we really worked our legs, doing things like:
24x100, 4 on 1:35, 4 on 1:30... down to 1:10 (you can imagine those last 4 were heavy on the kick)
10x50 1:30, all out, pick two strokes and do 5 of each (sprints = kick a lot)
100s and 200s swim going 3/4/5/6 lines underwater off every wall (our pool is lined both ways, so that is roughly 10,12,14,16y underwater)
vertical kick w/ medball, free kick only
depends on the week, but we usually will have at least one really good kick workout every couple of weeks that will make us think twice about taking the stairs out of the building. This week was officially 20.6%, and we had a 1500y kick set last night.
In the last month, there have been several nights without much straight "kick" where we really worked our legs, doing things like:
24x100, 4 on 1:35, 4 on 1:30... down to 1:10 (you can imagine those last 4 were heavy on the kick)
10x50 1:30, all out, pick two strokes and do 5 of each (sprints = kick a lot)
100s and 200s swim going 3/4/5/6 lines underwater off every wall (our pool is lined both ways, so that is roughly 10,12,14,16y underwater)
vertical kick w/ medball, free kick only
