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Counting Strokes Can Hurt Your Efficiency (And Your Shoulders)

Counting Strokes Can Hurt Your Efficiency (And Your Shoulders)

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Nov 26, 2010
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Counting Strokes Can Hurt Your Efficiency (And Your Shoulders)
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At Swim Smooth we're not very interested in counting strokes over single laps. Firstly, your height, arm length and hand size has a huge influence on your stroke length and makes the outright number pretty meaningless. Secondly, it's too easy to fake a low stroke count over short distances. This week on the blog we're going to expand on that second poin…

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