Fly training?

RE: Fly training?

orca1946 — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:24:35 GMT

When I run practice, I always include all stroke in diff. distance in every workout.

RE: Fly training?

Former Member — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:40:11 GMT

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.

RE: Fly training?

Former Member — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:08:08 GMT

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.

RE: Fly training?

jaadams1 — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:27:53 GMT

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. ============================= 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: