Fly endurance

Do repeat 25 flys. Take plenty of rest and work on lowering your stroke count. If your stroke technique starts breaking down, stop swimming fly. Once those 25's become easy (which could take weeks), add some 50's, again taking plenty of rest. Once those 50's become easy, try some 75's. 200 fly is probably my best event and I rarely do more than 75 fly at a time. If you get to where you can finish a set like 6 x 75 fly with plenty of rest, you are more than ready to race a 200. Another approach that works for some people is to treat the 200 like a set of 8 x 25 fly. This week work on 8 x 25 fly with 30 seconds rest. Next week, 8 x 25 fly with 25 seconds rest. And so on until your rest between each 25 is just a couple extra breaths during the turn. At some point what you're doing becomes indistinguishable from swimming a 200 fly, but you know in your mind that you're just swimming 8 x 25.

Do repeat 25 flys. Take plenty of rest and work on lowering your stroke count. If your stroke technique starts breaking down, stop swimming fly. Once those 25's become easy (which could take weeks), add some 50's, again taking plenty of rest. Once those 50's become easy, try some 75's. 200 fly is probably my best event and I rarely do more than 75 fly at a time. If you get to where you can finish a set like 6 x 75 fly with plenty of rest, you are more than ready to race a 200. Another approach that works for some people is to treat the 200 like a set of 8 x 25 fly. This week work on 8 x 25 fly with 30 seconds rest. Next week, 8 x 25 fly with 25 seconds rest. And so on until your rest between each 25 is just a couple extra breaths during the turn. At some point what you're doing becomes indistinguishable from swimming a 200 fly, but you know in your mind that you're just swimming 8 x 25.