Aren’t you using the baggy old jammer that made you faster last year?
To go faster: going faster in the water boils down to propulsion and reduction of drag. Reduce drag by doing exercises which engage your core, not just your abs but your back and glutes and hip flexors. Be consistent. Do it daily. You should feel your heels leaving the water when you kick.
Don’t do your kick sets with fins. Keep yourself honest. It sucks, it feels slow, it is slow, but it will get better. This will help build a stronger kick which will stabilize you in the water and make you faster.
Actually kick when you swim freestyle. It’s really tempting to just let your legs trail behind you, they create drag. Kick.
Must have been a different guy.
No baggy shorts here.
Im on a core/strength program that my chiropractor gave me. Do that 3/week.
As for kick without fins.
I lost mine. Went without for three weeks.
Still did the 400 metres as suggested by ex coach.
Boy that chewed up a lot of time.
Bought some Arena Powerfins. And wow. Much faster.
Maybe do half with. Half without.
Being brutally honest, fins are a crutch at your level. Don’t take that the wrong way. Develop your kick. I mean look at your times, pull buoy is your best w/o fins. You’re going to have to learn how to kick and integrate it into your stroke. Find a coach who’s willing to help you do that.
Eta: and body position… pull buoy is probably masking some body position issues but now I’m entering the realm of assumption and without video I don’t want to do that.
Cruched some numbers here. Yes 50 seconds per 25 metres.
If it takes me 50 seconds to kick 25 metres in a pool workout, and I have to kick for 600 metres, what percentage of my workout would be kicking if my total workout time is 45 minutes
Alright, let’s break this down:
Total kicking time:
You kick 25 meters in 50 seconds.
For 600 meters, that would be 60025=24\frac{600}{25} = 24 lengths.
Total kicking time = 24×5024 \times 50 seconds = 12001200 seconds.
I guess the question would be, how is that kicking time structured? If you’re kicking 25m/50s, you could probably focus on strong 25m at a time. How’s your ankle flexibility? How is your form? Are you driving your kick with the thighs, keeping knee relaxed, and letting the foot/ankle whip? If you have low/no ankle flexibility some targeted 25s w fins can help (not fix) loosen those ankles up.
How about something like:
6x25m hard kick w board on 1:00
rest 1m
300 swim on 7:00
300 pull buoy on 7:00 (recovery time for your legs)
6x25m hard kick w fins on :50
rest 1m
300 swim on 7:00
300 pull buoy on 7:00