Hi, new to the board, back in the pool about 4 months.
Worked up to doing Mo Chambers workouts, but always substituting for fly in the IM's because I just never learned it.
I've always been a lousy kicker, but I bought a pair of Zoomers and quit using the board, which has helped a bunch. I do dolphins front and side and flutter on my back. I just started to dolphin kick off the flip (without the fins), which has really helped reduce stroke count (10 catchup; 13 -- 14 normally; 15 + is a failed lap). I'm 6'2" and dropped from 200+ when I started down to 190 - 195, which feels great.
Today I tried doing the fly legs in the IM's wearing the Zoomers, and I think there's some hope. Can a 44 year old lousy kicker learn to fly? Is it OK to learn with fins? Are there bad habits to watch out for when learning with or without the fins? Or should I forget about fly and just concentrate on the other three strokes?
I'm having a lot of fun swimming again, love the workouts and chat here, and am not afraid of looking like a complete dweeb.
Signed up for a pentathlon (one event of each stroke plus an IM) in March. I never did swim fly as a kid, so this is the first time in competition for me and the public debut of my new stroke.
I would have liked to do 100's in the other strokes and the 200 IM, but wasn't comfortable leading off my day with a 100 fly, so I signed up for 50's and 100 IM.
"What's the worst that can happen?" I thought rhetorically as I mailed in the entry. Please don't answer that question; I'm sure I'll find out on my own.:o
I swim meters, and the meet is SCY, so I'm psyching myself up by reminding myself that the 50 is 10% shorter, plus the dive will eat up some serious pool (I'm planning on gliding for as long as I can or as adrenalin allows, whichever somes first.)
Should be some fun.
Signed up for a pentathlon (one event of each stroke plus an IM) in March. I never did swim fly as a kid, so this is the first time in competition for me and the public debut of my new stroke.
I would have liked to do 100's in the other strokes and the 200 IM, but wasn't comfortable leading off my day with a 100 fly, so I signed up for 50's and 100 IM.
"What's the worst that can happen?" I thought rhetorically as I mailed in the entry. Please don't answer that question; I'm sure I'll find out on my own.:o
I swim meters, and the meet is SCY, so I'm psyching myself up by reminding myself that the 50 is 10% shorter, plus the dive will eat up some serious pool (I'm planning on gliding for as long as I can or as adrenalin allows, whichever somes first.)
Should be some fun.
