The Purpose Of Measuring Stroke Length

The Purpose Of Measuring Stroke Length

Concepts Stroke length is the distance your body travels forward on each arm stroke. How far you travel on each stroke is a direct indicator of how much work you accomplish and that work is a product of both strength and skill. Some people get more from their strength...
Some Ways To Measure Baseline Stroke Rate

Some Ways To Measure Baseline Stroke Rate

In the previous article – When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster – I discussed how stroke length and stroke rate are yoked together and suggested as an initial step that you get a baseline measurement of what your current comfortable stroke...
When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster…

When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster…

The traditional approach to swimming faster is to just go harder and keep at it until something breaks through.  For some, that simple instruction might work. But for far too many it hasn’t.  Regardless of what approach you take to developing technique or...
Be Powerful and Be Smooth About It

Be Powerful and Be Smooth About It

I have a saying: “Power is important, but (in water) shape is more important than power.” I use it to persuade a student to be patient with our process of developing the frame of the body and the streamline shape before we focus directly on the propulsive...
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