In general, when I swim with a group, I notice that I usually am at the front on kick sets without fins. When, however, we have sets with fins, I usually fall behind. Why is this?
The other day, I was swimming with the high school group and they were begging to do a 10 x 100 kick with fins on 1:10. No way could I make this. When I suggested doing 10 x 100 kick on 1:45 without fins, nobody thought they could make it. In fact, the coach gave a small set of 100s on 1:45 that was without fins and I thought it was pretty easy while the others could barely make it.
In any case, why do I stink on fin work when I am a pretty strong kicker without the fins? Is this a bad thing?
Chris, do you think cycling has given you a strong kick?
On the whole, probably not. Maybe it helps with conditioning and endurance, but by far the thing that helps me the most is doing hard kick sets. I don't notice any correlation between the amt of cycling I do and my performance on kick sets.
When I do cycling it is b/c I like it and to do something different, not really because I think it helps swimming a lot. (It probably helps some, but I don't know that the time couldn't have been better used in the water or in the weight room.)
Chris, do you think cycling has given you a strong kick?
On the whole, probably not. Maybe it helps with conditioning and endurance, but by far the thing that helps me the most is doing hard kick sets. I don't notice any correlation between the amt of cycling I do and my performance on kick sets.
When I do cycling it is b/c I like it and to do something different, not really because I think it helps swimming a lot. (It probably helps some, but I don't know that the time couldn't have been better used in the water or in the weight room.)
