But isn’t the secret just to increase my stroke rate…? And my legs would be limber for the run to bike after kicking like that…
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Which channel?
World aquatics website has live feed on it
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Depends what you wanted to achieve and what your current form is like.
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Good start but his 20-35m was unreal, fast turn and then that UW. NCAA is creating a whole new level of UW for sprinters due to SCYard swimming
Hes setting NCAA alight, 2nd person to sub 18 for 50yds, not got Caleb Dressels record yet, but hes still got a couple years left.
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Last week Grechen Walsh, only 21, earnt $291000 at a swimming gala. It was the World Champs and she did have to set 10 WR to do it, but even so 
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Might have asked this before;
Why does swimming make me sleepy when running and cycling does not?
The internet doesn’t know, neither does artificial stupidity.
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Chlorine?
Or just plodding up and down the lane?
I’m wired after a club session, especially if it has anything with speed involved
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I don’t know either but I quite often swim at lunchtime and then have an afternoon kip afterwards 
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Energy systems in use….
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Swimming always makes me hungry afterwards and the need to pee a lot 
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Same. Not just hungry though, extremely hungry.
I’ve aways wondered why, guess I hardly ever eating during a swim but then I’m not burning a load of calories.
I guess its because you tend not to eat before.
Early morning swims before breakfast, etc.
Also it might be a throw back to the few times I swam as a child, straight to the chocolate vending machine after. Association.
Someone explained the needing to pee thing, was it on here? I cant remember the explaination.
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Because they are drinking the “water”
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I tried it as extra propulsion, didnt make me any faster sadly.
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More anaerobic?
So more like a track session perhaps…?
I had a Quick Look at some training load numbers, swim does seem to be much higher than I thought it would be. Would need to trawl numbers for better correlation though.
And yet we tend to think of swim as an easy workout. At least I do.
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Most swimming “threshold” models grossly overestimate what it actually is, so most people doing their 16x100 off 2 minutes at CSS are actually swimming more “in the red” than they think. Similar to things like ramp tests or 20min all out on the bike.
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as an over simplification - yes…different muscles have a different ratio of fast to slow twitch but mostly, the shoulders are working fast or possibly at least beyond the efficient range of slow twitch fibres in late onset swimmers…
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That makes sense I guess. It just seems so weird. Thanks all for helping me think it through. Now maybe have to rethink swim as recovery. Or rethink the sets at least. I do love SKIPS though…
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Rethink the pace/type of swimming you do for recovery.
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