23 September 2021
Continuing my trip down swim memory lane into my 2011 workouts. I was reminded of a piece of equipment I used to train with fairly regularity to help enforce a high elbow catch
on my freestyle, and a proper catch on my backstroke: the Finis Forearm Fulcrum:
I don't think I've pulled these out of the deep recesses of my swim stuff since I moved to Canada in 2019, so just toyed around a bit with them during my warmup. This morning was a quick one, intended to be a lighter effort between yesterday's actual and tomorrow's planned harder workouts:
Warmup (700 yards)
1 x 400: IM, kick-drill
12 x 25: on 0:35, w/Fulcrum, single arm, 6 right arm, 6 left arm, odds free, evens backstroke
Main Set (1,500 yards)
5 rounds of:
1 x 100: on 1:45, kick w/board, dolphin-flutter
I did another 50 easy for 2,250 yards total. Longer, faster, harder tomorrow.