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The importance of stroke rate - To maximise your swim speed
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- čas přidán 10. 10. 2019
- Here we conduct a study of 2 swimmers during a race. Is keeping a high stroke rate important? Take a look and find out.
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Hi, I'm a triathlete with a very low swim stroke. I normally have 56-58 spm for a 1'25"-1'30"/100m pace. I have tried to rise my stroke rate during today's 4x400m workout up to 62 spm and I was swimming faster but my breathing was more forced and I had the feeling of not being able to withstand that 62 spm for a long time (let´s say 1500m). Is there a moment that breathing and feeling becomes more natural? How many weeks of training are needed to establish a new stroke rate ? Thanks.
Hi Andres, excellent point. However, if your normal SR is 56-58 then raising your SR to 62 in 100m swims would be easier. If you raised your SR to 62 doing 10 x 100m on 2:00 you would slowly but surely get used to the new SR.
If you wanted to go extreme you could do 4 x 50m on 1:05 doing 68 spm followed by 4 x 100m on 62 on 2:00 and repeat after a recovery swim. By doing the 50's on 68 the 100's on 62 would probably feel easy. You could even consider sets of 25's, 50's and 100's at slower and slower SR's to get used to the faster SR's over time.
Hope that helps
@@SwimCycleRunCoach Thanks!!! I will take your advice.
@@SwimCycleRunCoach Thank you very much
This wasn't scientific. Using only three strokes with a vague start and end manual stopwatch click, plus yes, even if we assume your stroke rate estimates are accurate you're not looking at anything else going on with each lap (technique changes and so on). e.g. maybe something is going wrong with the technique in the slower laps that is making the stroke rate slower as well as increasing drag.
You might be completely correct with your estimates, and everything else is exactly the same for each swimmer in every lap other than a slowing down of the rate. I'm just saying that you can't conclusively deduce that from what seeing here.
That said, yeah, I agree, stroke rate matters ;-)
is there a calculation one can use to figure what the current stroke rate is? Sort of like measuring your pulse? Counting strokes for 15 seconds and multiply times 4?
also how are you calculating the stroke rates in this video? Can you make a video that shows how you are doing this?
Hi, I’m using a stopwatch with a stroke rate function, you click on a stroke and then 3 strokes on and it calculates stroke rate. If you were to do it by eye then count for 6 seconds and multiply by 10, it’s always easier to multiply by 10 quickly, hope that helps.
@@SwimCycleRunCoach Thanks for the quick reply. Do you have a link or make of the stopwatch with Stroke Rate function?
I have put a link to one in the description to the video - with a 20% discount code. Cheers
@@SwimCycleRunCoach Thank You!!
50m, 100m, 1500m, fine. But is increasing stroke rate a big issue for 3800m? Especially with a cycle/run afterwards?
Hi Kevin, you've slightly misunderstood the main point.
Currently you have a preferred stroke rate for any single distance, including the ironman 3800m. If you increase that stroke rate you will go faster. The whole point of a well designed training plan is to slowly but surely make sure that you can cope with a higher stroke rate.
You may have accepted a slower pace than you could potentially make, as the swim is so short in long distance terms. However, a good training plan will maximise your potential in all the 3 disciplines.
Cheers
Have you a recommendation for swim pacer?
I use the finis tempo trainer