It doesn't matter how much freestyle I do, my butterfly is comparatively lame unless I do substantial fly in practice.
I've seen lots of people who can race fly really well without doing much of it in practice.
How about you?
It doesn't matter how much freestyle I do, my butterfly is comparatively lame unless I do substantial fly in practice.
I've seen lots of people who can race fly really well without doing much of it in practice.
How about you?
You just described me! :)
Yes I do swim some fly in practice, and lately I've been doing a bit more of it, but in the past I would train almost all freestyle with a little IM work as well.
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My latest fly set (that seems to get borrowed by others on the blogs):
Multiple Rounds of
75 (25 Fly, 50 Free) @ 1:05
75 (50 Fly, 25 Free) @ 1:10
75 Fly @ 1:15
75 Free @ 1:00
Push the fly, relax the free. Intervals can vary. :agree:
I know exactly what you are talking about, but sadly most of my coaches do not. I have never really needed to train much fly, as I sort of became my best stroke out of the blue. It seems like I improve more upon my fly if I just work technique for fly and do the endurance training freestyle. This would also include sprints butterfly, but that only happens for lactate sets or sprinter circuits.
I think it also has something to do with the distance of the fly event. I can see a lot of sprinters who do not need to train fly because they do the 100 and lower. On the other hand, most people who swim the 200 seem to do a bit more fly at practice.
How much fly I do in training depends on the distance that I will be racing in the near future. If I am preparing for a 50m race then I don't do heaps of fly. I would just incorporate a few 25m sprints after the warm up of most sessions.
On the other hand if I am preparing for a 200m fly then I do quite a bit of work in butterfly. I still do the majority of sets in freestyle but probably 2 of my main sets per week will be done as butterfly. If they are a set of 100's I would normally do 75 fly 25 free. If it is a set of 200's I would do 100-125m Fly and the rest free. The majority of my sprint and lactate tolerance work would be done as Fly.
