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Developing a solid kick during freestyle swimming is difficult to do.\u00a0The mistake many triathletes make is that they\u2019ll perform a kick set to develop the skill and fitness of their legs, and then they\u2019ll perform a swim set.\u00a0Or they\u2019ll perform the kick set at the end of a workout after they\u2019re swimming.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p> The problem with this approach is that they\u2019ll never learn how to integrate the kick into their stroke when the kicking and the swimming is separated.<\/p> You want to practise some kicking and then go right into swimming working the kick with the same skills and effort.\u00a0You want to continue to alternate between kicking and swimming and do so as often as possible.\u00a0 <\/p> To learn any skill requires repetition. The more practise you get, the faster you will improve.\u00a0<\/p> By doing some kicking and then going right into some swimming, you\u2019re going to get used to using the legs in your stroke by incorporating what you learn by kicking right into your swimming.<\/p> It\u2019s also effective from a fitness perspective.\u00a0When you race, you want to make sure your legs are appropriately engaged, and they have to be fit if you\u2019re going to sustain that effort for an entire race.\u00a0 <\/p> By alternating between kicking and swimming, you\u2019re actually challenging the legs to do more than what they\u2019ll face in a race.\u00a0<\/p> When you kick, the legs provide all the power, and going right into swimming challenges you to keep the legs working in spite of the fatigue that\u2019s been generated.<\/p> With one strategy, you can improve your skill and your fitness.\u00a0Let\u2019s take a look at how to put it into practice:<\/p> The simplest way to use this strategy is to perform sets where you alternate between kicking and swimming like the set below:<\/p> 8 x 50m as: ODD flutter kick; EVEN freestyle<\/p> You can use any distance for either the kick or the swim, and the distances don\u2019t have to be the same.\u00a0 You can emphasise one or the other depending on the distance you choose.\u00a0<\/p> Same goes with intensity.\u00a0You can adjust the intensity of the kick and the swim depending on what you to focus one.\u00a0You can go hard on the kick and smooth on the swim or go hard on both.<\/p> You can take the concept from above and incorporate kicking and swimming into the same repetition.\u00a0 For instance, you could use a set as simple as the following:<\/p> 8 x 75m as: 25m flutter kick + 50m freestyle<\/p> This turns up the fitness development and the learning because you\u2019re immediately shifting from the legs to the swim.\u00a0The legs don\u2019t get a break which makes it more effective at helping you learn to incorporate your kick into your stroke.<\/p> Top image credit:<\/strong> Getty Images By Andrew Sheaff Published: Tuesday, 28 November 2023 at 15:56 PM Developing a solid kick during freestyle swimming is difficult to do.\u00a0The mistake many triathletes make is that they\u2019ll perform a kick set to develop the skill and fitness of their legs, and then they\u2019ll perform a swim set.\u00a0Or they\u2019ll perform the kick set at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27217,"template":"","categories":[1,23],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"3"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2023\/11\/how-to-use-your-legs-properly-while-you-swim.jpg",1200,833,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2023\/11\/how-to-use-your-legs-properly-while-you-swim-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2023\/11\/how-to-use-your-legs-properly-while-you-swim-300x208.jpg",300,208,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2023\/11\/how-to-use-your-legs-properly-while-you-swim-768x533.jpg",768,533,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2023\/11\/how-to-use-your-legs-properly-while-you-swim-1024x711.jpg",800,555,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2023\/11\/how-to-use-your-legs-properly-while-you-swim.jpg",1200,833,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2023\/11\/how-to-use-your-legs-properly-while-you-swim.jpg",1200,833,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Andrew Sheaff Published: Tuesday, 28 November 2023 at 15:56 PM Developing a solid kick during freestyle swimming is difficult to do.\u00a0The mistake many triathletes make is that they\u2019ll perform a kick set to develop the skill and fitness of their legs, and then they\u2019ll perform a swim set.\u00a0Or they\u2019ll perform the kick set at…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/27216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Kick\/swim sets<\/h2>
Kick\/swim repetitions<\/h2>
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