This morning was an easy swim, mostly working on kick sets and stroke form. I've decided this winter to make a concerted effort to improve my kick. Although you don't use the kick that much in an Ironman swim, working on kicking can have a real positive benefit to strengthening your legs and core. Having strong legs and a strong core helps to improve your body position in the water and to improve your ability to hold that body position for the length of the 2.4 mile swim. Hopefully, that will translate into a faster swim split as well as less fatigue.
Today's workout was as follows:
- Warm up: 300 easy swim + 200 easy kick
- Main Set:
- 2 x 500 done as:
- 200m kick with a board, building 50m from easy aerobic to best effort (60")
- 50m kick on your back
- 2 x 50m kick on your side (balance drill)
- 150m freestyle, building the kick to over-kicking for the last 50m
- 20 x 25 stroke drill
- 200 meter cool down, easy swimming.
Total distance for the workout was 2200 meters.
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