Does anyone else flat out refuse to do kick sets because they hate it and are convinced the knee will get aggravated to the point that the returns become negative?
Is there evidence to support that you are in fact better off avoiding kicking or am I just being a wuss?
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I first blew out my knee - ACL, meniscus 15 years ago and have had nothing but trouble ever since. Yeah I could see another doctor, get another MRI, another surgery ...
I have found swimming to be a low impact sport on the knee outside of kick sets. And the knee doesn't actually bother me in full strokes - I even feel like I am picking it up pretty good on sprints. But my kick can't be generating much extra speed for me - the lady at the Y that refuses to get her hair wet in the pool can beat me with a kick board.
I'm not convinced it is technique because it is not something I had a problem with as a youth. Unless part of it is that kick sets are just astronomically harder to get back than the rest of the stroke? After a long layoff, everything else came back like riding a bike.
Oh, and don't worry about me doing breastroke. I have already given that up for life and it was not difficult. I completely sucked at *** since birth.
I first blew out my knee - ACL, meniscus 15 years ago and have had nothing but trouble ever since. Yeah I could see another doctor, get another MRI, another surgery ...
I have found swimming to be a low impact sport on the knee outside of kick sets. And the knee doesn't actually bother me in full strokes - I even feel like I am picking it up pretty good on sprints. But my kick can't be generating much extra speed for me - the lady at the Y that refuses to get her hair wet in the pool can beat me with a kick board.
I'm not convinced it is technique because it is not something I had a problem with as a youth. Unless part of it is that kick sets are just astronomically harder to get back than the rest of the stroke? After a long layoff, everything else came back like riding a bike.
Oh, and don't worry about me doing breastroke. I have already given that up for life and it was not difficult. I completely sucked at *** since birth.
