What would you consider as the most important reason to include kicking in your workouts?
Also, what do you see as the main difference and purpose between the exercises kicking with a board and kicking without a board?
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Now that this thread has turned into a general kicking thread. I got this advice, written for my weak intellectual capacity (when it comes to kicking especially).
You must kick a lot while you are swimming. You must kick at the same pace throughout the breath and not pause or slow down the kick at all. You must not slow down the turnover to kick at a good fast pace. The kick should help drive the turnover and rotation (sorry, big words there). In short, it must be "integrated."
One good way to do this (I'm told, I don't practice this art nearly enough) is do to kick-swim sets. They're harder than you think.
I just changed my stroke fairly significantly. During the process, I stopped paying attention to my kick, and thus stopped kicking. Trying to follow that braindead simple advice now it difficult.
Now that this thread has turned into a general kicking thread. I got this advice, written for my weak intellectual capacity (when it comes to kicking especially).
You must kick a lot while you are swimming. You must kick at the same pace throughout the breath and not pause or slow down the kick at all. You must not slow down the turnover to kick at a good fast pace. The kick should help drive the turnover and rotation (sorry, big words there). In short, it must be "integrated."
One good way to do this (I'm told, I don't practice this art nearly enough) is do to kick-swim sets. They're harder than you think.
I just changed my stroke fairly significantly. During the process, I stopped paying attention to my kick, and thus stopped kicking. Trying to follow that braindead simple advice now it difficult.
