how many strokes per lap?

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underdog13

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where am i supposed to put swimming questions here? i just wondered if anyone knows how many strokes an olympic swimmer would use for 1 25metre lap of the pool? i did 24 strokes myself yesterday how is that? im under 5'7.

thanks
 
its all about the glide.

there is a great workpout, called a mini maxi

my typical stroke count on 25 m was 18-20, but I could get all the way acrossed in 12-14, if i really pulled hard and glided.

but I am not an olympic swimmer.
 
swimming strokes?

okay thanks for the comments. yeah i could have done better if i had pulled back more rather than focusing on extending in front.
 
a good workout is that mini-max. I thought you'd ask what that was... lol

You try to make it accrossed the pool with as few strokes as you can, as fast as you can.

SO- you time yourself, count your strokes, divide the time by the strokes, and then try to improve that time.

I liked doing it at 50 meters (up and back) better. Otherwise the math is so technical.

for the glide, I find that if I think "always have a hand in front" it makes my forward coming stroke shorter, leaves the hand out fronmt longer, and that allows me to get a nice deep powerful push with my going back hand.

Sorry, I dont know the terms so well, but if you swimming, you get the drift..

durring the glide I keep my hand out front in a blade position, and play like I am a shark. :)

FF

p.s. and the legs is a beig part of that. My fastest, smoothest, distance laps I do not do the quick lil kicking, I do a sort of closing Y move with my legs. almost like a frog, without bending them. It feels like I squirt myself forward, by pinching scissor legs.
 
strokes per lap?

yeah i tried to vary the kicks between fast little constant kicks and then the other which was four kicks timed with the strokes and then a half second glide. im pretty sure my best time came with the constant little kicks.
 
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