Subject: RE: Anyone else doing the Zero to a Mile swim thing? Donto thanks for the reply. I actually watched the whole video and I must say it was a bit confusing to me. I'm definitely a low stroke rate kind of guy which seems to go well with the TI approach, but then the Swim Smooth idea talks about a higher stroke rate, and a higher open water stroke rate than in the pool even (depending of course what your current rate is ). Both explanations seem to make sense to me: the density of water is much higher than that of air, so whenever you are not propelling yourself (by pulling ), you are slowing yourself down (SS ), and this is compounded by the fact that you are wildly inefficient in swimming, so its more efficient to reduce the inefficiency than it is to increase the energy exerted (TI ). Of course on the face of it these are not mutually exclusive, but they do approach it differently. And I must say in the brief period I have been swimming consistently I'm sure I've both increased my efficieny in propulsion as well as my aerobic swimming ability (less out of breath ). Anyway, Ill be plugging away until I get to the end and then see where I stand
Here's the link to the 0 to 1650 or really 700 to 1650 (but it starts with 100m/y as the longest interval ):
http://ruthkazez.com/swimming/ZeroTo1mile.html
There's also a "true" 0-700 to precede it:
http://ruthkazez.com/swimming/Zeroto1milePreamble/pre-zero.html |