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?
Great addition MJ.
FINz are a saving grace for swimming with a sore or injured shoulder.
But hopefully the swimmer is anxious to find out why their shoulder is hurt if it is a bad technique related issue.
The nice thing about masters is that we are all adults.
Swimmers have to take responsibility for their roll in lane selection, equipment usage, effort level in workouts - and communication with their coaches.
(one of my old coaches told me masters swimmers are simply 10 & unders with credit cards)
Coaches by the way, are not mind readers!
I always ask if an injured swimmer knows why they are having shoulder issues and what they are doing to address it - stroke work, pt, etc.
And your old coaches comment about us being 10 and unders with credit cards - very, very funny and often true. I coach both groups and had the experience of being on deck twice when swimmers complained about someone going much faster and the offended swimmer was sure that the faster swimmer had a stroke flaw I should correct - kicking with knees too bent. The difference between the 7 year old and the 65 year old in complaint - the 7 year old used an adjective. Really. The. Only. Difference.
--mj
Great addition MJ.
FINz are a saving grace for swimming with a sore or injured shoulder.
But hopefully the swimmer is anxious to find out why their shoulder is hurt if it is a bad technique related issue.
The nice thing about masters is that we are all adults.
Swimmers have to take responsibility for their roll in lane selection, equipment usage, effort level in workouts - and communication with their coaches.
(one of my old coaches told me masters swimmers are simply 10 & unders with credit cards)
Coaches by the way, are not mind readers!
I always ask if an injured swimmer knows why they are having shoulder issues and what they are doing to address it - stroke work, pt, etc.
And your old coaches comment about us being 10 and unders with credit cards - very, very funny and often true. I coach both groups and had the experience of being on deck twice when swimmers complained about someone going much faster and the offended swimmer was sure that the faster swimmer had a stroke flaw I should correct - kicking with knees too bent. The difference between the 7 year old and the 65 year old in complaint - the 7 year old used an adjective. Really. The. Only. Difference.
--mj
