STOP Gliding & Counting Strokes for Smooth & Effortless Swimming with our Stroke Rate Ramp Test!
Have you ever been taught that you need to take fewer strokes per lap to be more efficient? How is it then that there is such a massive range in swimming styles at the pointy-end of the sport with some swimmers taking only 27 or 28 strokes to complete each 50m and others 40+? Why do some swimmers look smooth and have a seemingly effortless swimming style with a steady stroke rate, but others look short, punchy and with a very high stroke frequency? In today's extended video - Part 5 of our Swim Smooth Stroke Correction Hierarchy - we bust some myths about what makes an efficient freestyle stroke, and more importantly, show you how to find your best rhythm and timing to develop great momentum, efficiency and economy with your swimming using our Stroke Rate Ramp Test.
Given the nature of the video and it's completeness, this final video is a bit of a beast at 39 minutes, but it might well prove to be the best thing you've done with less than 60 minutes of your swimming! We certainly hope so!
Here are the time snippets, which you can access easily directly on the video. 00:00 Introduction
01:13 Recap of Stages 1-4
03:36 Comparison of elites - Mack Horton, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Becky Adlington, Alistair Brownlee, Anna-Karin Lundin, Shelley Taylor-Smith, Janet Evans
04:42 The falacy of stroke counting and your efficiency
06:36 The continuous stroke versus the glide stroke
08:31 How a parachute can show whether you're efficient or not
09:59 Study to show stroke rate manipulation and economy
13:14 Higher rates allow open water swimmers and triathletes deal with any open water conditions
14:54 Gregorio Paltrinieri versus Florian Wellbrock
16:20 Interview with Bud McAllister - coach to Janet Evans, Olympic gold medallist
21:26 Identifying your optimal stroke rate
22:52 Introduction to the stroke rate ramp test
27:36 Full stroke rate ramp test with Scott from New Zealand
If you missed any of the previous 4 videos in this sequence you can access the full playlist here.
