After
you watch the video of this awesome swim go back and watch it again with a stop
watch in your hand and do some basic math. He is swimming about 100 yards of
breaststroke. The other 100 yards are covered in his pull throughs. Except for
the dive (about 6.1) he is underwater for about 5 seconds on average from the
time his 2nd hand leaves the wall until his head breaks out. You
have 8 walls x 5 seconds = 40 seconds for 100 yards. He is covering the
remaining 100 yards on the surface in about 68 seconds, or less than 7 tenths
of a second per yard travelled.
Also
note how high he holds his hips prior to activating his kick. Talk about
holding your line!
You
can do the same thing with your 12 year olds or your 50 year olds. Do the math
and then figure out how to swim fast enough for the remaining time needed to
cover your specific distance in your specific time. Of course the same holds
true for the other strokes and the IM.
You
can then do some very specific time and distance per stroke training to get the
feel of the demands of your goal swim.
Congratulations
to Kevin on a fabulous swim and a shout out to his coaches at Arizona and Dave
Krotiak at Fox Valley for setting this man up. What collaboration
indeed!
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