Do you do drills?

[eclectic]

I took a few swim lessons early in the season. My instructor was very into doing drills. I got so bored with them that I can't make myself do them at all now.

I would like someone to show me how they help rather than just have my do them (like showing me what I'm doing wrong and then have me do it correctly and THEN point out a drill to help me).

That is too bad because drills really help in swimming. I found the main ones we did helped with body position and timing.
Also Drills are not to be confused w/ speedwork intervals. All the drills we did were at a nice easy pace so our form stayed correct.

The session my swim coach laid out consisted pretty much of this format

600 yards warm up (this varied among freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, kick only, done at a nice easy pace)

Then we would only do about 400 yds of drills (finger tip drag, catch up, hesitation etc - but she would mix them up so it would only be about 50 yds of each)
The drills were where she would look at our strokes, make corrections and we could practice the new form

THEN we would do about 800 - 1000 yds of varying speedwork intervals

Lastly we would finish out with 2- 400 yards of cool down.

all told we would get 21-2500 yds done in an hour and only 400 -600 of them would be drills. So if you don't overdo them they don't get boring. AND we did such a wide variety of them they were always a challenge.

Now that she is not doing the program anymore I still do the same format when i go practice on my own. But it isn't the same I don't push as hard when I don't have swim mates beside me who I want to beat on the interval work