09/14/08

SCY

Did about 1000 yards of warmup + various drills
50 breast fast from a push, no drag suit - went 37.

Today I got a lot of feedback from my buddy Marc on my breaststroke. I'm still going pretty deep and going up and down more instead of forward. A couple of tips he gave me:
--don't breathe right after the pull starts.
--let the natural tendency of the body to float lead into the breath.
--contract the lower back before the start of the pull so that the hips stay higher and the kick is more linear
--I can probably pull back more on my pull. He observed that I'm still "tomahawking" my arms through the pull and throwing them downward instead of shooting them forward.
--try to swim it as close to the surface of the water as possible.
--keep my back flatter instead of hunching everything in on the pull.
--2 kicks + 1 pull is an excellent drill because it causes you to think about how the pull is set up.
--also, I should try to use the dolphin kick at the beginning of the pullout, right after my hands separate -- basically giving 2 propulsive phases. I'll have to work with this to make sure I'm not doing 2 dolphin kicks.
--I need to keep my head down on the breakout. I pop it up and it kills my momentum.

Some drills:
2 kicks, 1 pull
breast pull w/free kick
breast pull w/buoy

Weekly Total:
11800 m
9200 y
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20213 m
22105 y