As quoted in the AP article:
"You'll all have to see. I'm not saying anything until we unveil it," Phelps said with a grin when asked how he's tweaked the stroke. "It's a significant change. You'll be able to tell exactly what I did as soon as I take my first stroke."
He's on tap to swim the 100- and 200-meter free and the 100 butterfly at the Charlotte UltraSwim in NC. Should be interesting to see.
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I wish I could find the article - but I read that in general it can between 7,000-14,000 repetitions of a technique change before it becomes the new "normal." The article cited the experience of tennis players who change some element of their strokes.
If you take 15 strokes per 25 - that means 467 lengths of the same thing or almost 12,000 yards if 7,000 repetitions are required.
That's why it is so hard sometimes to fix a bad stroke habit!
I wish I could find the article - but I read that in general it can between 7,000-14,000 repetitions of a technique change before it becomes the new "normal." The article cited the experience of tennis players who change some element of their strokes.
If you take 15 strokes per 25 - that means 467 lengths of the same thing or almost 12,000 yards if 7,000 repetitions are required.
That's why it is so hard sometimes to fix a bad stroke habit!
