A Kick-First Sprint Set for Faster Swimming

By Olivier Poirier-Leroy on SwimSwam
Fast sprinting is a blurry combination of high tempo arm movement, rock-solid trunk stability, and a kick that can churn chlorine pucks out of the pool water.
The kick’s role in sprinting is interesting in that power output actually goes down as swimmers start flirting with maximal speed.
Why?
When you’re sprinting with a six-beat kick and your arms are white-water turning over at full speed, there’s less time to generate force with each kic