I am an amateur swimmer and have started swimming in the pool 2.5 years ago. I enjoy all strokes and swim IM. This last year i have trained hard and got to this time a week ago 2:41 200m im (25m pool). What would it take to catch ~ 2:25 ? What are the advanced techniques for an IM-er? I get a bit tired in the first 50m of butterfly and suffer a bit the backstroke exhaling part underwater.
If your start is bad, but your fly is still 5 seconds faster than your free, you are probably taking your fly out a little bit fast relatively. Even for a butterflier, the differential should be more like 3 seconds I would think. So I would guess your first step would be to pull back a bit on the fly and build into the back/*** more.
LCM - 28.94/38.58/40.40/33.53 (2:21.45)
200 I.M. my strategy is always to take the fly out fast...but that is because my backstroke sucks! Also that time is from 2012, before I REALLY worked on my backstroke, and I haven't swam the 200 LCM since then!
If your start is bad, but your fly is still 5 seconds faster than your free, you are probably taking your fly out a little bit fast relatively. Even for a butterflier, the differential should be more like 3 seconds I would think. So I would guess your first step would be to pull back a bit on the fly and build into the back/*** more.
LCM - 28.94/38.58/40.40/33.53 (2:21.45)
200 I.M. my strategy is always to take the fly out fast...but that is because my backstroke sucks! Also that time is from 2012, before I REALLY worked on my backstroke, and I haven't swam the 200 LCM since then!
