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Introduction To Training With Stroke Counts
What is stroke counting?
How far you travel forward on each stroke is one of the first ways you measure how streamline, how hydrodynamic your swimmer body and stroke is becoming. When your skills for streamlining improves, you travel forward more easily, your body slides farther forward on each stroke. When your skills for efficient propulsion increase likewise, your body slides farther forward on each stroke.
If you slide farther forward on each stroke, then it will take fewer strokes to get to the other end of the pool. By counting your stroke (occasionally or quite often) you will be able to monitor a very important piece of data about your progress in swimming skill.
You might like to view more explanation for this:
Stroke Counts = Stroke Length
According to physics, speed is a product of stroke length x stroke rate. In other words, your speed is determined by how far you travel on each stroke and how quickly you cover that distance in each stroke.
How far forward you travel on each stroke is called your stroke length. It’s hard to measure that with a ruler while you are swimming, so instead, we just count the number of strokes and (with a little math) know that certain stroke counts correspond to certain stroke lengths.
Building your skill and strength for better stroke length is the foundation for swimming faster.
Some Important Terminology
Stroke Counting = counting the strokes you take on each length of the pool.
Stroke Count = the number of strokes you took to go the full length of the pool.
Strokes Per Length or ‘SPL’ = the exact same thing as Stroke Count, just a little more formal.
More Instruction On Using Stroke Counting
- Tips To Improve Stroke Counting in the Pool
- Tips To Improve Stroke Counting in Open Water
- What is your “Optimal Stroke Count (Green Zone)“?
- What SPL should I use?
- How do I shift SPL on command?
- What if I have to slow down to improve my SPL?
- Why should you aim for A Longer Stroke Stroke?
- How to Convert SPL to Stroke Length Equation
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