is it possible for me to drop my 100 yard butterfly time by 4 seconds within a 7 month span? i am trying to go from 56 to 52, my 50 fly is a 24.88 , but my 100 is a 56.16. for some reason i always die in the back 50, i usually take out 26 but come back 30. if i train swimming 200 butterfly would this help me to gain endurance so that i wont die in the last50?
... drop my 100 yard butterfly time by 4 seconds within a 7 month span? ... 56 to 52 ...
I did almost exactly that, 55.5 to 52.3, as a teenager, back when the earth was young (35+ years ago). Oddly, what did it for me was a ridiculous amount of abs work. I remember doing sets of situps (full situps, not crunches), with a 10 pound weight held behind the head, on an inclined bench, how many situps can you do in 3 minutes? I remember the number was a little over 100, like 105 or something. We'd do three sets of that, several times a week. That was all done before the season started. Once the season started, I had a ridiculously strong dolphin kick.
Back then we didn't understand exactly how fast & powerful dolphin kicking really is. With 20/20 hindsight, I could have re-engineered the race to take even better advantage of kicking, and may have gone even faster.
My suggestion is a lot of abs work. YMMV.
... drop my 100 yard butterfly time by 4 seconds within a 7 month span? ... 56 to 52 ...
I did almost exactly that, 55.5 to 52.3, as a teenager, back when the earth was young (35+ years ago). Oddly, what did it for me was a ridiculous amount of abs work. I remember doing sets of situps (full situps, not crunches), with a 10 pound weight held behind the head, on an inclined bench, how many situps can you do in 3 minutes? I remember the number was a little over 100, like 105 or something. We'd do three sets of that, several times a week. That was all done before the season started. Once the season started, I had a ridiculously strong dolphin kick.
Back then we didn't understand exactly how fast & powerful dolphin kicking really is. With 20/20 hindsight, I could have re-engineered the race to take even better advantage of kicking, and may have gone even faster.
My suggestion is a lot of abs work. YMMV.
