I just finished my month of swimming with 106K of total distance.
- In March I focused on a ton of band pull. I really worked on my body position
- In April, I focused on doing more kick sets with fins. Dolphin kick, kicking on my side, on my back, on my stomach all without flutter board and tried to incorporate a better sychronized kick into my swim. I also focused on bringing up my speed with band pull. Between speed with band pull and all that dolphin kicking my core became stronger. I'm one of the few 50 year olds at my pool with a six pack without doing any sit ups LOL!
- This month I built on the above, but worked all 4 strokes, specifically, lots of fly working my body position and catch. I have found my fly has become more relaxed and the timing is better and this is translating over to my freestyle. The work in April in terms of kick with fins has also helped the power from my entire core and kick for my fly...again translating into better freestyle too.
I am not running yet with any degree of determinism without spasms, but I will be doing the IM Tremblant 70.3 in a relay with my son. I am doing the swim+bike, and he is running the half marathon. My goal after close to 500K of swimming this year is to go sub 30 minutes.