I don't understand the following comments:
1. "Too many swimmers focus on pushing their hand back at the end of the stroke, which just delays getting it back to the power position".
2. ""hand's aren't pushing back far enough" knowing it was obsolete "
One of my favorite freestyle instructional videos of Lindsay Benco stresses "completing the stroke all the way past your hip".
Has emphasis on this phase of the stroke become obsolete, and a quicker recovery considered more efficient?
Also the coach yells, "Thumbs down your sides!" Does this still apply?
Thanks for your advice,
Georgio :drown:
Like so many things in swimming, do what works for you. I have been working on shortening up my stroke although I still finish further back than perhaps I need to. I went to a swim clinic and the idea behind not following all the way through is that it uses your triceps which are small muscles. The thinking here is that these smaller muscles won't give you as much propulsion as larger muscles which can be engaged earlier in the stroke and so you should shorten up the stroke to use the large muscles more. I think it was something like that. I any event, it has been working for me. Try swimming with more and less follow through to see how it feels one way versus the other and see which way is faster for you. Which ever way works better for you is the way you should be swimming, regardless of whether someone else thinks it is obsolete or not.
Like so many things in swimming, do what works for you. I have been working on shortening up my stroke although I still finish further back than perhaps I need to. I went to a swim clinic and the idea behind not following all the way through is that it uses your triceps which are small muscles. The thinking here is that these smaller muscles won't give you as much propulsion as larger muscles which can be engaged earlier in the stroke and so you should shorten up the stroke to use the large muscles more. I think it was something like that. I any event, it has been working for me. Try swimming with more and less follow through to see how it feels one way versus the other and see which way is faster for you. Which ever way works better for you is the way you should be swimming, regardless of whether someone else thinks it is obsolete or not.
