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Kicking off the wall

  • 22-09-2008 3:43pm
    #1
    MCOS
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    Hi There,

    I'm new to swimming and currently swimming twice a week. 45mins lsd no watch and 6x200m with a watch. I plan to do some triathlons next year so I will be joining the club swim sessions in a few weeks.

    I personally find it very motivating to see my times dropping when I decide to time myself. Right now however I kick off the wall and glide for a second or two. A triathlete in the gym was saying to avoid doing this as it pays no dividends for an OW swim. My first Triathlon will be in a pool though so I want to obviously swim as fast as I can for that distance.

    I just find that not kicking off the wall feels like stopping and starting again which makes a pool session in a 20m pool seem like forever! Am I 'cheating' myself here by kicking off the wall?


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  • #2
    Killgore Trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Killgore Trout


    MCOS wrote: »

    I just find that not kicking off the wall feels like stopping and starting again which makes a pool session in a 20m pool seem like forever! Am I 'cheating' myself here by kicking off the wall?

    Pool swimming and OW swimming are like comparing apples and oranges - Pool swim distances would be broken up where OW is in one go. I race OW (on it's own and in Tris) and I kick off the wall when in the pool training. I train with other people who swim OW and they all kick off the wall - and i haven't heard anyone suggest that kicking off is cheating or detracts from training. If someone started that not kicking off thing in a club session they'd be holding other swimmers up and they wouldn't have a problem telling them to cut it out. But If that's what he likes to and it's not impeding the people behind him leave him to it.


  • #3
    MCOS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭MCOS


    Thanks! Newbie in the pool so I had to ask :) My first organised swim session next week. I'm actually a bit nervous about mixing it with other swimmers, I don't know why. Just new I suppose, I have only ever swum by myself


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