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?
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.
Lots of Ab work is important.One good way to add to that is dolphins kick with fins(mono fin if you can get one.)Usually sprinting fly ,if you can keep the flow going you are OK and the way to do that is strong core.In that regard how is your SDK and how many kicks do you take off the turns.
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.
Lots of Ab work is important.One good way to add to that is dolphins kick with fins(mono fin if you can get one.)Usually sprinting fly ,if you can keep the flow going you are OK and the way to do that is strong core.In that regard how is your SDK and how many kicks do you take off the turns.
