Greetings all!
I'm experiencing some mysterious swimming-related shoulder pain for the first time in my life - bummer. In the meantime, I'd like to do some workouts that only involve kicking while I address the shoulder issue w/ rest and pt.
Any idea on some good workouts? I'm a 39 y/o Masters Swimmer in pretty good shape who routinely does 3,500 - 4,500 yard workouts 4x week when healthy. I'd like to incorporate Zoomers in these workouts.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My apologies if I'm posting in the wrong area.
Thanks in advance!
Former Member
This could be a good opportunity to work your board-less kicking. Our coach always made us do a lot of body position work with zoomers that didn't rely much on arms.
General kicking drills:
-streamlined/almost streamlined flutter kick with a *** stroke arms recovery to breathe, and shoot back into streamline position. Can do dolphin kick/*** arms as well - my favorite way to get yardage out of kicking.
-streamlined underwater dolphin kick, breathing every 4-5 kicks
-12-kick freestyle - spend 12 kicks with your stroking arm stretched out in front of you, as if you were about to take a stroke.
Coming off walls and in the middle of the pool, you'll be able to keep your speed a lot better with fins on, so you'll be able to feel how adjustments in your body/streamline position can dramatically affect your friction in the water. Think about not popping your head up off the wall, and other ways to benefit from the fin speed.
Also try Ellen's balancework drills, they could all be done with zoomers, i think: forums.usms.org/showthread.php
I love to do kicking. I never use a board because it ruined my neck. Put on your zoomers. Kick one length. Count while kicking. Rest that amount. Do it a gain but try to go quicker. Repeat this for 300 yards.
Then fly kick underwater as far as possible. If you can't do one length come up and flip to you back and fly kick back to where you started. So you are at least doing 50yds. Repeat. You will be shocked by how quickly your length underwater will increase. Do up to another 300 yds. When I really work on this I can build great distances. Never over do the underwater though because you will be hurting the airbags in your lungs. Come up when you have to.
Then kick 300yrds doing each 25 yds on a different side.
Then do 300 yds Krazelburg sit kicking. Everyone will look at you as if you are weird but it really builds your thighs. Then do one leg kicking on your back for 300 yds. Use a different leg with each length.
Do another 300 yds on your side, different side each 25yds. Start at the top if you can.
I think when I had to do kicking workouts, I couldn't repeat this for a long time. I did it right after I had a colectomy though. After one week of only kicking, my doctor told me I could do stroke work every three days. I got to where I could repeat it twice. Then I had my pull-through, I had a temporary illeostomy that was removed and my stomach was reconnected to my small intestine. I went back to doing this for 1 week. I had already lost some of my lung capacity
I had already lost some of my lung capacity
How did you lose lung capacity??? Is it called shrinking lung capacity??
I think you would still have the same lung capacity. I think it is that - you are not in condition.
