Same goes for me at 68....last trsained in the 70s. I'm learning so much from these videos and after just 7 weeks am easily keeping pace with all the much younger lane swimmers. I train four days a week now that I've recently retired

Yes you’ll be on your side more in this drill than you would when swimming

Yes

It’s in the description

Skillest

I'm not an expert but a two beat kick is best for distances above 800m. In this video she's doing a six beat kick but bear in mind it's a drill only. For this drill the kick needs to flutter due to the long pause and floating sideways.

I call this kick-n-switch and have always taken the breath after the switch. Hopefully I've been doing that alright. 😬🤞☺️

I have the same problem. If I do it without fins I feel like Im gonna drown.

@@aounjose ankle flexibility!

Everything is about drag vs propulsion in the water. Front quadrant timing maintains an almost constant streamline position (minimal drag) so even though you aren't pulling (propulsion) constantly the net effect is so much less drag that most swimmers will be faster this way, not to mention save energy. If you pull early while the other arm is recovering you are a broad drag inducing anchor from the head and shoulders without the arm leading. The slight caveat would be in sprinting where there is more of a windmill or kayak style but even then elite swimmers still use this form to an extent. Since this channel is mostly geared towards triathletes they tend to not have most swimming fundamentals down so it probably feels like "waiting" rather than efficient timing. Hope that helps

Everything is about drag vs propulsion in the water. Front quadrant timing maintains an almost constant streamline position (minimal drag) so even though you aren't pulling (propulsion) constantly the net effect is so much less drag that most swimmers will be faster this way, not to mention save energy. If you pull early while the other arm is recovering you are a broad drag inducing anchor from the head and shoulders without the arm leading. The slight caveat would be in sprinting where there is more of a windmill or kayak style but even then elite swimmers still use this form to an extent. Since this channel is mostly geared towards triathletes they tend to not have most swimming fundamentals down so it probably feels like "waiting" rather than efficient timing. Hope that helps

@@christopherrogers3069 Thanks for the explanation, Chris. I'm not 100% clear on the "drag" issue tho, when both arms are in frt. To me, from what I can see in the underwater videos, it appears that when implementing that "pause, or lag"...which I like to call it, before the catch is begun, it would cause more of a drag because both your shoulders would be square, or parallel to the water level, rather than if you had begun your catch, and your shoulders were 180° apart from themselves. Such as the recovery arm reaching all the way fwd, while the pulling arm has 65% of it's motion completed. It would seem that would be less drag. I don't know if I'm explaining it right.

@@joequillun7790 during the front quadrant phase one should not be level with the water as you say. At the moment you describe, the recovery arm and body should still be rotated, by the time that you are level with the water and hand entry begins the catch of the other arm has begun. Thus the brief moment of increased drag is also the peak propulsive phase. This also helps timing of using the hips/core to rotate as well. Most non-front quadrant swimmers have terrible rotation deficits. Also the longer an object is in water the faster it will move, so if you think of your arm as the 'tallest' point then having moments without an arm in front makes you shorter and thus slower. The rest comes down to anatomy as we are land animals poorly designed to move through water so moving the arms in a windmill motion may work in a simple physics problem if we were a boat with paddles but in reality we have to optimize the human shoulder and body

The best care is after swimming, since it's not recommended to go to the pool with lots of cream and sunblock on your body. It's not allowed in most pools. That's why I prefer swimming early in the morning or late in the evening. After swimming, your skin will be very dry, with few or none protective layer of fat on it. Then, I avoid using soap, only on intimate parts, if so. I do use shampoo and a good conditioner, and after shower, I apply a good moisturizer. You may need to apply the moisturizer again hours later. I also use a lips moisturizer during cold weather. I hope this may be helpful.

Also, I'd suggest checking with the pool manager if the water treatment is done correctly. I had an episode when I was losing the skin hair, which never happened to me before. I went to the manager, who refused to accept that possibility at the beginning, but did fix the amount of chlorine they were putting in the water. That was way above recommended.

He said 6 kicks to 1 stroke

Joylyn

I don't think she needs any improvement, she's only demonstrating the drill

Look at her feets. They are to big

@@MrOk1901 that’s why she’s fast in the pool

did you try to do the drill with fins ? It will definitely help :-)

Shinji Takeuchi (TI favorite instructor) said that he rotated his body from his hip. Next time I will try to do that.

The perfect length...

Long enough 😝