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Find Your Stroke Rate Sweet Spot

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Apr 02, 2010
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You may not know this but nearly everyone's freestyle stroke has 'sweet spots' in it at certain stroke rates (strokes per minute). These are strokes rates where your efficiency is higher, meaning you move more quickly though the water for the same effort. Even if you swim regularly with a Wetronome you may not realise where these sweet spots lie.

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