key wrote:
Swimming or running? I assume swimming.... It seems to me that most pros who don't do sprint races use a low cadence/slow stroke rate.
In fact it's something that almost all the really good 1500m swimmers have in common. At the extreme is Sun Yang, he looks like he's barely moving.
Huh. Visual fail.
Yang comes in right about a 70 stroke average per 100m. If he is the extreme on the low side, where are the others coming in?
(This was calculated by watching a couple of video's such as his 200m China nationals and his world record 1500m and counting strokes. He runs an average of 120 per 200m, with approx 7m of glide/push into and out of walls. So using 120 strokes for 172m gives a .697m/stroke, rounded to 70).
Given the numbers tossed around so far in this thread, I'd put a stroke rate of 70/100m on the low end of a high cadence. So, if the slowest rate among elite swimmers is 70 (Actually, it would be a touch higher, since his average 100m split is below 1:00), how can you justify saying that most pros/good 1500m swimmers have a low cadence?
John
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