I'm new at the butterfly stroke and struggle to do 6x33yds with a freestyle return(100 ft pool) in one workout. I do these with a full recovery (3 min). After that I'll have to switch to some other stroke because I'm pretty much shot.
What are typical workouts and distances that strong flyers do that I should try to build to? I'm thinking that 10x50's would be a great goal?
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I know I am fairly atypical, but still want to see if I'm alone in my camp.
I can swim as much butterfly as I want, limited by the time available. I treat this stroke like any other and I can warm up swimming it as well.
Any volume in excess of 200m is done on a 55sec/50m pace though, pretty much the same speed as breastroke. In fact, these strokes are very much alike, except that I can't lower a 50m breaststroke under 30s of course.
Anyone else approaches butterfly this way?
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Fins to learn butterfly, great suggestion. That will make you save a great deal of time in learning to synchronise all the components with ondulation.
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I know I am fairly atypical, but still want to see if I'm alone in my camp.
I can swim as much butterfly as I want, limited by the time available. I treat this stroke like any other and I can warm up swimming it as well.
Any volume in excess of 200m is done on a 55sec/50m pace though, pretty much the same speed as breastroke. In fact, these strokes are very much alike, except that I can't lower a 50m breaststroke under 30s of course.
Anyone else approaches butterfly this way?
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Fins to learn butterfly, great suggestion. That will make you save a great deal of time in learning to synchronise all the components with ondulation.
