Hi Everyone,
Recently, I learn how to glide and cut it to 46 minutes.
What should I do to bring it down to below 40 minutes?
Don’t glide!
Could you elaborate on this? I find I do better with a little bit of a glide. Our swim coach back when I did masters with a different group called me a gerbil in the water because I didn’t have any glide or pause. Hard to explain. But would love to get more details on why not to glide.
I’ll attempt from my basic understanding. You initially learn to glide which gets you holding a better body position, tautness through the core and smoothes out your stroke, whilst increasing your distance per stroke. When you are proficient at that and looking to improve speed etc further then you have to start removing dead spots in your swimming cycle so you can increase the amount of time you are pro-pulsing yourself forward; Whilst you hold the glide that lead arm isnt contributing to the go-forward, so you begin holding the glide for a shorter amount of time and initiating the catch phase sooner, essentially speeding up your stroke cadence, but doing it in a way that you dont loose all those good things the glide give you in the first place. Your distance per stroke may decrease a little bit, but it is more than compensated by the increase in cadence/stroke rate, providing you dont speed it up too much to where you then loose technique and distance per stroke plummets. So you basically eventually become a really efficient, streamlined gerbil with lots more gears to use!