Aim For Stroke Length Ease

An excerpt from one of my recent blog posts giving a reply to one of my swimmer’s concerns using a Tempo Trainer while working on SPL control:

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I suggest that she spend less time with the TT right now, and keep this objective – solve the puzzle of making 16 SPL feel easier.

To make it feel easier she needs to reduce drag outside the body and reduce resistance inside the body. By using TI drills and associated focal points to direct attention outside the body and inside the body she can isolate points of drag, points of tension, and areas of poor core control in her 16 SPL stroke. And by addressing those one-by-one, it will, by design, get easier and easier to hold 16 SPL. The focus of the training is to lower drag and resistance, not lower SPL. SPL will get easier (or lower) as a result of that focus – ‘SPL + Ease’ is simply a way to measure that drag and resistance are decreasing.

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