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Re: December Swim Challenge [Dr. Tigerchik]
I just realized it is December....OK OK.I got to the pool late so only had 30 min of lane swim before it flipped to public swim which means dividing buoy line across the pool....so a bit of a pain to swim lengths during this time. During the first half of my swim, I got my 25M kickboard sprint time down to 26 seconds. Sub 25 and maybe even 22 is in reach! Second half of the swim, did under water dolphin sprints under the buoy line (lengths). After that I went to widths for 15 min and did dolphin sprints across the width focus on moving water backwards with both sides of my feet and then recovered on the way back working my breast stroke.

Also if I can make a request to you all on these swim threads. Honestly I find most of the top line metrics of another person's workouts close to useless other than its a one upmanship bragging rites thing.

What would be far more beneficial to everyone is people talking about the technical aspects of swimming and what they were working on. I really don't want to know that my fellow tennis player served up 100 tennis balls. What I want to know is what she was technically working on, because when she talks about that, it can make my serve better. Just hearing that she hammered 100 tennis balls is largely useless information.

In any case here is what I want to contribute to my gripe and try to change the culture of these thread to more learning oriented (vs feats of strength oriented)...This is what I wrote on the November thread to Monty. He was talking about Slowman just "kicking down" and being slow:

LOL....you beating up on slowman's kick actually improved mine today. As I have leg control issues with my left, leg and applying force like a normal human I noticed during some kick sets that I was kicking the water down with my left shin, whereas with the right I was kind of flicking it backwards. So I focused on that, and got my 25M down to 26 seconds today. I THINK if I keep working on this, I can get down to 22 by improving not just the propulsion, but the timing and streamline....it's almost like you want to "catch" the water using the shin as the paddle and throw the water back with the shin and then foot but finish with a streamline (like we would do with fins) vs just slapping turbulent water....thinking like using each leg as a dolphin's body 180 degrees out of phase with the other dolphin body (leg) and using the foot as a tail fin.....am I on the right track?


Can you guys help and talk more about technical improvements....and yes, I am the slowest swimmer around these threads, but when I go to most pools I am one of the faster people.

Also cool thing at yesterday's swim. I was swimming with the CEO of a local tech company who, in his youth with basically second in Canada to Alex Baumann....for those who don't know Alex Baumann won the 200m and 400m IM golds at the LA Olympics. This guy used to beat Baumann until Baumann had a growth spurt and then it was second place from then onwards!
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