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发信人: vinson (专心向学), 信区: Swimming
标 题: 为了成功,练习
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年08月31日08:16:34 星期六), 站内信件
by Terry Laughlin
DRILL FOR SUCCESS
Swimming should be practiced both as a skill sport, like golf or tennis,
and as a strength and endurance activity, like running or biking.
This will enable you to swim better, feel better about your swimming,
and stay more motivated to continue.
If you're strictly interested in swimming to get fit, and not at all
interested in swimming faster, better stroke mechan-ics are important.
Good mechanics will allow you to swim further. The farther you go, the
more calories you burn and the more aerobic benefits you gain.
The fastest way to improve stroke technique is to do more stroke drills,
even if it means that you swim less yardage. Many swimmers have learned
to do drills as an integral part of their practice.
Here's a guide to maximizing the benefits of stroke drills:
1 Every drill is a problem-solving exercise. Each is designed to teach
your body how to solve a different problem. In going through the process
of solving each of those problems, your muscles learn how to move
your body through water more efficiently. As you imprint those solutions
in your muscle memory, yourare teaching your body new and better
movement qualities_those which you will later bring into your swim
stroke.
Nothing beats the old-fashioned virtues of patience and persistence in
ensuring the success of that process. With each new drill, and every
time you return to practicing recently-learned drills, you have to allow
your body to work through several stages. It should take a few
repetitions just to identify the problem the drill is meant to solve. On
the next several repetitions, you'll work out the solution. Finally,
you need to spend several more repetitions "memorizing" that solution so
you can do it more naturally.
2 Drills, when done properly, will also "enrich" the flow of sensation
and information from your muscles to your brain. The first few times you
work on any new drill, spend at least 10 to 15 minutes trying to firmly
imprint the new sense into your muscle memory. Don't be rigid.
Experiment with subtle adjustments to see how much control you really
have over these new movements. Eventually, you want your body to take
over for your mind, consistently doing on its own what initially
required great concentration to accomplish.
3 Marathon drill sets are usually counterproductive. Fatigue and loss of
concentration will hurt the quality of your drill practice. Instead,
practice them in sets of 25-yard repeats, resting 10 to 15 seconds in
between. Continued practice should make your drill execution a little
smoother and more relaxed with every repetition. With each repetition,
your movements should also become more precise and economical.
4 After allowing yourself 10 to 15 minutes to refine your execution of a
new drill, begin alternating drill lengths with swim lengths. Try to
swim each length a bit more efficiently (fewer strokes) and easily.
Focus on the main objective of the drill and on whatever feels different
and better in the drill than in your stroke. Then, try to increase that
feeling in your stroke. It's always best to allow your stroke to be
influenced by the movement quality gradually and naturally rather than
trying to force dramatic and instantaneous change. After all, you've
been swimming one way for years; your stroke will give up its old habits
grudgingly.
5 If your kick is weak, don't keep struggling to get the right body
positions. Instead, just slip on a pair of fins to increase your sense
of control on all drills. The fins will free up physical and mental
energy for mastering the fine points, greatly accelerating your
progress.
6 Novice swimmers should spend more time practicing drills than
whole-stroke swimming. If drills teach faster and better than anything
else, then it stands to reason that more time spent practicing them will
have you swimming smoothly, quicker. As your skills improve,
gradually increase the amount of swimming you do. Even advanced swimmers
should continue to do at least 10 to 20 percent of their yardage in
drills.
Sure drills are practice, sort of like playing your scales on the
piano when you'd rather be tackling the whole sonata. But remember:
You're finally practicing your success, not your failures.
Coach Laughlin holds his Total Immersion Masters Swim Camps throughout
the year.
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俯仰自如,宠辱不惊
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