I hear that you should not breathe every stroke in fly because it causes you to become vertical for more time during your swim, but one thing that I do not understand is that when I swim fly and come up for a breath everystroke, not only does it seem easier for me, but I take less strokes per lap, and I go faster. Any thoughts or ideas??
I hear that you should not breathe every stroke in fly because it causes you to become vertical for more time during your swim, but one thing that I do not understand is that when I swim fly and come up for a breath everystroke, not only does it seem easier for me, but I take less strokes per lap, and I go faster. Any thoughts or ideas??
It depends on:
+ the person, (your technique, conditioning and speed)
how many strokes do you take per length?
+ the course (scy, scm or LCM),
+ the race, which swim the race is in your daily meet schedule
especially how much rest you got before your fly race and
+ how many SDKs you do off each wall
+ breathe on turns
Don't breathe on your 1st stroke on the dive unless you SDKed far and it's a long race
Don't breathe the stroke before your turn
on your last length Don't breathe from the flags in or half way
figure out what works best for you for each race
50 fly
not many, have a breathing plan,
Plan on breathing zones like none on 1st length 1 in middle of 2nd length
take a big breath when you're diving in and hold it
100 fly
every stroke, every other, every 3rd stroke
some plan on so many breaths per length
the american record holder didn't breathe on the last length
100 IM (1, 2 or 3 breaths)
200 fly
every stroke or every other
200 IM
every stroke or every other
400 IM
every stroke or every other
I hear that you should not breathe every stroke in fly because it causes you to become vertical for more time during your swim, but one thing that I do not understand is that when I swim fly and come up for a breath everystroke, not only does it seem easier for me, but I take less strokes per lap, and I go faster. Any thoughts or ideas??
It depends on:
+ the person, (your technique, conditioning and speed)
how many strokes do you take per length?
+ the course (scy, scm or LCM),
+ the race, which swim the race is in your daily meet schedule
especially how much rest you got before your fly race and
+ how many SDKs you do off each wall
+ breathe on turns
Don't breathe on your 1st stroke on the dive unless you SDKed far and it's a long race
Don't breathe the stroke before your turn
on your last length Don't breathe from the flags in or half way
figure out what works best for you for each race
50 fly
not many, have a breathing plan,
Plan on breathing zones like none on 1st length 1 in middle of 2nd length
take a big breath when you're diving in and hold it
100 fly
every stroke, every other, every 3rd stroke
some plan on so many breaths per length
the american record holder didn't breathe on the last length
100 IM (1, 2 or 3 breaths)
200 fly
every stroke or every other
200 IM
every stroke or every other
400 IM
every stroke or every other
