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Post by watchman on May 19, 2011 7:33:25 GMT -5
I have been reading about reducing stroke rate in swimming. To count strokes to cross Olympic pool. I have been working on this.
I went from 25 to 16.
How important is this? I have not heard this talked about here.
It seems to be a big help in that I have had to become more streamlined with a longer glide.
The end result is I don't think I have slowed down but have been able to cover the same distance with a greatly reduced effort.
(This should help in Ironman distance race)
maybe some of the expert swimmers can address this.
Am I wasting my time? is this something good to focus on?
mike
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Post by sly on May 19, 2011 15:36:26 GMT -5
A 16 stroke count to cross an Olympic sized swimming pool?
I am certainly no expert swimmer, but I'd say you're in some pretty fine company. Alexander Popov and Ian Thorpe take somewhere near 30 strokes per 50 meter length. An American guy you may have heard of, Michael Phelps, takes anywhere from 26 to 28 strokes per 50 meter length.
I'd forget about Ironman - the U.S. Olympic swim trials are coming up next June...
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Post by Anna on May 19, 2011 15:56:36 GMT -5
Yeah 16 is ridiculous. Are you counting each hand going in the water or counting both arms as 1 pull? Count every time your hand enters the water. When I was swimming the 'magic number' was 12 strokes per length. And that's a 25 yd pool. Obviously it is going to vary per swimmer. You really should be focusing more on distance per stroke while maintaining efficiency/overall speed. I could take 6 strokes a length but there would be A LOT of dead time between strokes, and my time would be outrageously slow. Just play around with your stroke count while making sure you are able to maintain your goal pace.
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Post by watchman on May 19, 2011 16:26:57 GMT -5
it is 25 not 50 I thought Olympic pools were 25 sorry and just one length and counting every time a hand goes in.
I could never do 12 strokes.
What I have noticed is I have not really slowed down but gotten more efficient and have kept my heart rate very low.
I am focusing on Cedar point Full and just want to do swim in 1 hour 30 minutes and have energy left.
right now I am on pace for that.
I was working to hard and being very inefficient before. I have added a little more to kick and longer glide. I could fall asleep at this heart rate which is fine with me.
mike
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