I'm looking for ideas on kick only workouts for shoulder injuries. I actually didn't injure my shoulder swimming...technically: a 17 year old jumped straight down on it in the warm up lane this weekend. :bitching:
I've got drs orders to skip arms for the next 6 weeks while I do PT. I'm trying to come up with some interesting kick only workouts and everything's coming up a bit vanilla. I also can't decide what percentage to devote to fins vs/no fins/vs endurance/vs sprints and all that jazz. I'm a weak kicker, unless it's breaststroke, so this should be good for me. I've tried searching but the few threads I've found don't seem to have much information and the coached workouts are tricky to dig through and just look for kick workouts. I'm really not even sure how many yards I need as my kick is much slower. I'm guessing about 1/2 the yards I would normally do, so maybe 1500-2000?
Today I was unusually very limited in time and felt only like I got a warm up in:
1,150 yards ~ 30 minutes
400 yards: alternate kick style by 25 with snorkel (no fins): dolphin/flutter/whip/flutter
10 x 50 with fins on back: first 50 dolphin/second 50 flutter. Medium Effort on 10-15 seconds rest. (For me 1:00)
10 x 25 Whip Kick with Snorkel on 45 (~5-7 seconds rest), first half 25 strong, second half 25 speed
And at this point I needed to stretch and jump out but would have liked more and a cool down. I barely got warmed up and it felt off not using arms. I also couldn't streamline which slowed things down a bit and was pretty disappointing.
Today I was unusually very limited in time and felt only like I got a warm up in:
1,150 yards ~ 30 minutes
400 yards: alternate kick style by 25 with snorkel (no fins): dolphin/flutter/whip/flutter
10 x 50 with fins on back: first 50 dolphin/second 50 flutter. Medium Effort on 10-15 seconds rest. (For me 1:00)
10 x 25 Whip Kick with Snorkel on 45 (~5-7 seconds rest), first half 25 strong, second half 25 speed
And at this point I needed to stretch and jump out but would have liked more and a cool down. I barely got warmed up and it felt off not using arms. I also couldn't streamline which slowed things down a bit and was pretty disappointing.
