3/25/2018 0 Comments The warm upWelcome back! If you have been following along throughout each week, you know that I've decided to focus on a particular stroke in preparation to improve my dive. Almost all of last week was concentrated on freestyle. This week, I decided to direct most of my attention towards backstroke. I once again have decided to include a snippet of one of my practices from the beginning of this week that shows myself really "warming-up" to backstroke.
The third dive that I needed to work up to this week is a backstroke start. This type of dive obviously requires one to be able to swim backstroke efficiently. After talking to my coach, she said that my backstroke is perfect other than a few flaws in my form after I swim for an extended amount of time. We both came to the conclusion that instead of swimming backstroke for large blocks of time, we would work on some drills instead. The set of drills that I was told to do incorporated upper body strength, lower body strength, and also the mixing of some strokes other than backstroke. Some examples of the training drills I completed this week include the following: using a kick board (I was told to hold the kick board above my head in a streamline position and kick on my back.), one arm only (A swimmer is instructed to swim backstroke like you typically do but instead of rotating between your right and left arm, you only use one arm.), breaststroke legs (You move your arms like you were normally swimming backstroke, but instead of kicking with a ¨flutter kick¨, you do breaststroke kick.), and finally fists clenched (This is like swimming backstroke normally except instead of your hands being cupped, you clench your fists. This is almost like you're pulling a parachute with your arms instead of your legs). Click the button below to watch a video of my initial backstroke form and take a look at my times for this week!
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