Thursday we worked on some drills to help with the left side breathing. My trainer told me I should give myself more credit. That I am a good swimmer. I have a good stroke, a good flutter kick (I accredit that to snorkeling and SCUBA), and my breathing isn't bad. So what we worked on was the positioning of the body. I had read this in the tri book I bought. I was shocked to realise that my whole body is supposed to turn as I stroke and take a breath. So I worked with the kickboard under my arm and swam the length of the pool on my side. An interesting approach. But it did help to put the twist into perspective.
The next drill was to take a few strokes and then stay on my side with my head/mouth.nose above water and stay there. That was neat and awkward.
Then the last one for the day was the thumb drag. It is an accentuated stroke where you drag your thumb up your side as you are stroking forward. It is to force you to think about creating less drag in the water as that back arm comes around. That the stroke isn't some Don Quixote windmill. There is a little more form to it than that. It felt odd. But she reminded me that it is exaggerated to get you to think about more now and less during racng.
I swam a total of 800 yards that day.
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