monty wrote:
posting workouts has almost zero value to other readers//
Actually it is a great resource for the fishes to pinch a workout or particular set or two. This thread has historically been mostly ex swimmers, thus just the bare bones actual workouts, sometimes accompanied with times, and an occasional reason for the set. But you have come busting into the house now and want to learn all this new fangled stuff, which is fine. But I think you will have to continue to ask your specific questions, and of course you will get answers here. We pretty much know why everyone is doing such and such, and take it for granted if they don't ask questions, then it is just plain swimming as usual.
But of course every once in awhile someone posts up a video of a spectacular race with a fast time, and even then they get critiqued on the finer points, so not that we are above it, just not as excited about it as you are at the moment...
I love the idea about a virtual swim meet, think I may have even had it a long time ago. Hell, maybe we even did it and I forgot!!
SO 200IM, 100 free, and 50 fly this month, sounds good to me. Of course we will have to accommodate all the distance formats, LCM< SCM< and SCY, but us fishes know how to do that easy enough. Lets throw ages and sex into the results too, make it a bit more fun for comparisons... Forgot to add, I agree with you that running workouts need to be purged from this thread, not sure how or why they creeped in.. OK, this all makes sense. I suppose if I was on a tennis or soccer thread, I'd just post the score and stats, but I would not be talking about the fine craft of what the technical nuances were to get there, so now that you provide that context, I get that for the rest of you guys, the "box score" from the workout, tells enough of what was going on. This would be like me posting the results from a Cricket T-20 international. They would make almost no sense to you guys.....that's the problem when those of us who did not grow up swimming come on this thread. We're only getting box scores that give us no instruction on what to go do and work on to become better swimmers.
Unfortunately for you guys, my persistence rate is high (both in sport and in life), so I'll be asking you guys what you were working on and what I was working on. I do think that if you guys share those, you will get some more people who are not from a swimmer background join in and use this thread as a resource (and add to it)
Can someone tell me what the timing of the two kick breast stroke drill should feel like. I assume there is one hard kick and one shorter tight kick like when doing fly?
In terms of the virtual swim meet, Monty, or Jason, why don't you guys pick a monthly set of events (I vote for no 1500m and 800m please since those are more or less Olympic and Sprint tri distance....prefer swim events that don't happen in a tri). I suppose it would be enough to know if it is SCM, LCM, SCY. Not sure if we need to divide up age groups etc (well, in my case, I'll be last place regardless, until we slice it and dice it to 52 year old guys on ST from Ottawa Canada with 40,000 posts, who is tech company founder whose 21 year old avoids talking with him....OK, on the last one, maybe that's most people with a 21 year old).
Alright I will keep asking. If someone can answer the 2 kick breast stroke drill that a few have mentioned that would be great.