Kicking from the hips
Hi all, first post and I'm sure this would have been asked before but I'm just starting to get into swimming as my main cardio work out, I much prefer it to other options.
My front crawl needs work, I'm okay with my arms and breathing but I can't seem to get my legs right. I feel like I'm more kicking the water away like a bicycle motion if that makes ANY SENSE.
I keep seeing people say you need to kick from the hips but I just can't seem to visualise the motion and make myself do it. Any tips to help my brain and muscles connect better and get used to the motion?
For context, I'm swimming in a 25m gym pool which has limited resources in terms of kickboards etc so I'm just kind of winging it. I'm doing around 1500m per session currently but want to increase once I get a more smooth motion down, thanks!