{"id":1601,"date":"2016-02-18T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2017-01-02T12:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:57:40","slug":"im-on-an-improvement-carousel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/im-on-an-improvement-carousel\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m on an improvement carousel…."},"content":{"rendered":"

And I love it. In fact I think I am addicted. If I walk away from any training session having learned something new about my stroke I have this wonderful sense of achievement and complete satisfaction. My brain just got its fix.<\/p>\n

I love being in the circle of conscious incompetence to unconscious competence. Finding any small improvement opportunity in my stroke and working towards change is extremely satisfying. This morning I swam a mile freestyle, deliberately fluctuating between a 6 beat kick and a 2 beat kick. I found this subtle timing flaw in the 6 beat kick – my right foot was too slow at times. The rhythm was off. As I swam I could feel a slight increase in tension on the top of my right foot. It was causing the right leg to get stuck and not able to completely align. Conscious incompetence. Check. Once I softened the foot, I could feel a more hydrodynamic body line and the rhythm was fluid and steady. Conscious competence. Check. Then I cycled back into conscious incompetence – where else did this flaw impact my stroke and if I still had the tension in the foot, where could I feel it elsewhere in the stroke? It definitely impacted my extension through the right obliques and hip flexor and I could feel a slight vertical shift in body position. Releasing the right foot tension, I could then fix the alignment and remove the vertical shift – conscious competence.<\/p>\n

As I was enjoying this cycle, I switched into backstroke, curious to see if I held the same foot tension in the 6 beat kick. Well what do you know…conscious incompetence. Release the tension, better alignment and more fluid rotational transitions. Conscious competence.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want to get off this carousel…..
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Coach Dinah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And I love it. In fact I think I am addicted. If I walk away from any training session having learned something new about my stroke I have this wonderful sense of achievement and complete satisfaction. My brain just got its fix. I love being in the circle of conscious incompetence to unconscious competence. Finding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}