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?
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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.
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.
