Nov 15-Dec 15 "Swim Speed Secrets" Book Club

I keep meaning to buy the book and read it.  Will try to do so asap.

In for this one too.

Book ordered

Ahh, thanks for  the good link, Dale. 

It looks like this is shaping up to be a good group! 

A couple of very experienced swimmers too--nice :) 

I'll play.  I could always use some knowledge in how to make my swimming faster.

There's a Kindle version of Swim Speed Secrets, but not the workout book.  It's waterproofed, so that may be why no Kindle version.

I've read through a bunch of the book and dang,..some interesting stuff.  Now if I ever drag myself back to the pool...

Awesome!

I think I worded my post poorly.  We'll start reading the book on November 15th and we'll also start doing the workouts then too, for whoever wants to.  Of course, if you want to read the book ahead of time, you totally should!  For "book club" purposes we will just try to divide it into fourths for framing discussion over the month.  Does that make sense?

HAHAHA!  You totally get an A+ today :)

I'm in and so need this!    Looking forward to bringing my swim time up a notch - at least from super slow to just slow.

I need to read the book again for the first question, but on the second it's hard to say for sure without seeing. But many tend to lift their entire head up which throws a lot of things off. It'll feel fairly level, but they'll actually turn it a bit (or a lot) more upright. I've learned to keep the top of my head down in the water more and think of getting my chin up. It feels a bit like I'm tilting my head down and drawing the chin in some to do this, but it actually stays about where it should. I don't think there should be much, if any, extra rotation for a breath.

What Ben describes sounds right.  Lifting the head forces the opposing arm to go down to try to balance you out and it's really, really hard to get a good catch with a high elbow in that scenario.

One of the things I like to do with the book club is to have people cite page numbers when discussing an idea presented in the book.  I think that helps everyone (forgive me) get on the same page;) Could you give us the page number you're taking the "S sweep" from?

I don't remember seeing any spot in the book where she recommends a wide move or "s sweep"--but I could have missed it.  She does talk about mini pulses trying to find water or feel the water.  And she does talk about the middle phase of the pull having the forearm at 45 degrees to the body. 

I used to think the I was supposed to keep my elbow high throughout the entire pull, and that was always confusing to me and just seemed physiologically impossible.  I like the way Sheila breaks down the pull into three distinct phases: elbow high and early vertical forearm with no bend in the wrist, the middle with the forearm at 45 degrees, and the finish by the hip.