Tonight's work out focused mostly on freestyle, but since there were only three of us tonight (Usually there are 12 or more), we swam a lot more, and Leslie, who was our only coach tonight, was able to tell us what we needed to work on for the mini-meet on Wednesday.
Here was our workout:
200 SKIP (200 Swim, 200, Kick, 200 IM, 200 Pull)
4x100s of 6-3-6 Catchup
4x200s of Freestyle swim timed (3:00)
4x50s Kick in IM order (50 Butterfly, 50 Backstroke, 50 Breaststroke, 50 Freestyle)
3 Race Medleys.
6-3-6 Catch up is:
6 kicks, 3 strokes, 6 kicks. While you are doing the kicks, your arm pulls up your side, as if you were zippering a side zipper. This makes your stroke longer, and stronger, and smoother-looking, so that you can go faster through the water.
This whole workout made me feel much stronger. I'm really glad I went tonight, and it felt like I hadn't been in ages because of the lack of challenge last week. I'm not sure if I'm really ready for another mini-meet so soon after the last one, but as we'll be doing different races, I'm not to bothered.
Leslie commented on my freestyle, saying it was looking much stronger and smoother, even before we did the catch-up, which was nice. She helped me with my backstroke kick, saying that when I did it with just the kickboard, I used my knees too much, and kicked with my whole leg and not just my feet, but when I did the full stroke it was fine. I'll try to work on kick less with my legs and more with my feet and not bending my knees so much when we do just backstroke kick.
I'm actually sort of excited about the mini-meet!
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