So what part of your arm Do you focus on to catch as much water as possible?

So right in there, and maybe inside the elbow, bicep, yeah, you just tried to get as much as possible. Yeah, and one thing to help me feel that and actually use my forearm is to do the fist drill. Or one of my coaches has used rubber duckies. And you hold on to the deck. So it's sort of a similar lose the hand, right as the surface. rubber duckies. Interesting. Yeah. So his idea on that is that there's the whole neurological piece that I think actually engaging your hand instead of feeling something on all of the hand, then has some greater stimulation. I like it. It makes sense. Because it's like you said, it's a little squishy to Yeah, I like to, for my club swimmers, I would always give them two pennies for each hand. So two pennies. And then if they came back with one penny, then they had to do 25 push ups. So yeah, actually, when I was just in Tenerife training, but it was for keeping my hands together, so I would put a penny here. Interesting. We'll talk about that next. So that's not something that I had. So just by keeping your arm by focusing on the forearm, the elbow, bicep, the entire arm, what muscles are you trying to engage to really push the arm through all of them, of course, but mostly the lats is the biggest muscle. So trying to keep your shoulder in the correct position, so that you can engage your entire arm into the lot is the best thing so that you don't get bicep tendonitis. Exactly. So shifting the responsibility to the big muscles, rather than the teeny ones that break all the time. Exactly. Show us for 20 strokes, please, will stay at the same speed.

Establishing balance sets up the property line for us just beautiful

thought process of understanding that you have to stay off the small muscles and the small joints. And it's how we professional athletes survived for so long, is because they are listening to their body and they're trying to access

the power from the correct place.

It looked to me like you were bouncing a little bit on that, when were you doing that on purpose just to kind of feel it? No, I've been feeling that on every single one.

You start talking and I forget

what I feel like I'm going around, even under. So this you know, this is the thing with swimming in a stationary pool that has a narrower feet of water than say 10 Reef does tend to if you've got the whole wall coming atcha. So in a smaller pool like this, you know something that's fantastic for a backyard but does have its limitations, you have a very narrow window in here, especially the fast you go. Once you start making mistakes in here, it starts to shove you one way or another. Now those same things will happen to you in a pool. If if the mistakes are made, it's you should get a little slower or a little less efficient. So this you have to be as good as possible. Or else you do feel that, you know, society decided sort of thing. And that would be something that, you know, we take a few times to work on and said Hey, where's this coming from? Where exactly is this occurring in your stroke?

Oh, yeah, that

was that the water was pushing on, like, on this side. And I don't know if that's because I was shifting and then the water was hitting from the edge, which could be Yeah.

But I noticed that on the last two, okay.

A few more strokes and then it will just go right by and

then you know, you're in the center at that point. So, but also an interesting thing that you say that my breath is so good. I wonder if I'm lower in the water here. So then yeah, about that. I'm moving in the same, but I'm because I'm lower. It looks better here. Well,

I'll take it for what it is. But we'll take a look. I think the thing that I like about your breeding so much was how fast it was. Okay, so it's very quick. And it's something that has really struck me about the great sprinters is that they spend when they do have to breathe so for 100 long course you have to breathe 50 you know, maybe maybe not but for 100

so the less time you spend in the breeding position is the less time that you spend in a dangerous position that you'll throw you off balance so the head turn is very sharp for you it's an early breath for someone like bruno fratus it's a late breath but the time that he's in the breathing position is almost faster than anybody else i've ever seen so it's a different time you know he breeds yeah much more delayed and the strange thing is dry luca breeds the same way both from brazil so is it something they teach down there or is it just lucky that I got two guys that have that that sort of breeding pattern yeah now

there you go



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