Got a camera in Guam last week to record some fish and stuff. Now that I'm back home I can put it to better use and try to improve my style. Here are several clips, two from yesterday and one from today.
My left hand crosses into my right side and my right hand goes way outside at mid-stroke. Not sure if this is a balance compensation but I havent been able to correct it yet
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I'm not a mathmatician, it would be difficult for me to quantify distance of stroke between the clips of those two days.
I meant the video you posted 2.5 years ago when you thrashed through the water. You made up for your lack of technique with strong turnover.
Have a SCM set with this theme? One without fins, buoys, and paddles I don’t have.
8x25 done as 12.5 sprint, 12.5 ez on 1:00
Do that right after warm up. You want your technique to be perfect, but you want to go max effort for those 4-6 strokes. At the end of the set, you should not feel tired like you would if you had sprinted, so you can take less rest (I think Fort does them on 45), but you want to be completely rested for each one. It is also a waste of time to do the set when you are tired already.
As an aside, I find that set frustrating. Since the goal is perfect all out, if you pay attention, you rarely accomplish the goal. Your streamline might be too short causing a deep breakout, or too long resulting in breaking the surface before starting the breakout, or too much rotation, or too little, or not really getting a good hold on the water, or kick amplitude being too big slowing down tempo of kick and turnover and the list goes on.
I got that set (originally) from ehoch, it is not a qbrain original. Fort uses variants frequently in her workouts thread if you want other ideas.
I'm not a mathmatician, it would be difficult for me to quantify distance of stroke between the clips of those two days.
I meant the video you posted 2.5 years ago when you thrashed through the water. You made up for your lack of technique with strong turnover.
Have a SCM set with this theme? One without fins, buoys, and paddles I don’t have.
8x25 done as 12.5 sprint, 12.5 ez on 1:00
Do that right after warm up. You want your technique to be perfect, but you want to go max effort for those 4-6 strokes. At the end of the set, you should not feel tired like you would if you had sprinted, so you can take less rest (I think Fort does them on 45), but you want to be completely rested for each one. It is also a waste of time to do the set when you are tired already.
As an aside, I find that set frustrating. Since the goal is perfect all out, if you pay attention, you rarely accomplish the goal. Your streamline might be too short causing a deep breakout, or too long resulting in breaking the surface before starting the breakout, or too much rotation, or too little, or not really getting a good hold on the water, or kick amplitude being too big slowing down tempo of kick and turnover and the list goes on.
I got that set (originally) from ehoch, it is not a qbrain original. Fort uses variants frequently in her workouts thread if you want other ideas.
