I can understand swimming crawl distance workouts but why swim distance backstroke, butterfly or breaststroke?
How many events are there that are over 200m for fly, breaststroke or backstroke.
To swim anything but max speed for workouts for these strokes is not worth the effort.
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George,
I sure am glad you are back; we really needed some of your comments on threads while you were gone.
I used to swim or kick an hour of backstroke. I did it because I enjoyed doing it and I could work on technique and turns for a long time. Now, there may have been no true "benefit" from it, but it was also nice to know that I could swim a mile of backstroke, not slow, not fast, medium-slow.
Hey, what about that Canadian woman who only swims open water doing butterfly? She'd need this training for sure, but it is unlikely anyone else would. I can't think of her name off-hand. She did Catalina Channel butterfly; can you imagine?
Donna
I am not saying it is wrong to do these swims but it is really useless swimming when there is no event over 200m for these three strokes. Over the years I only do kicking practice on my back. I have met her several times but in fact I have a picture of a group of swimmers who do the swims but for me I never did a marathon swim that was not a race or did not have prze money.
George,
I sure am glad you are back; we really needed some of your comments on threads while you were gone.
I used to swim or kick an hour of backstroke. I did it because I enjoyed doing it and I could work on technique and turns for a long time. Now, there may have been no true "benefit" from it, but it was also nice to know that I could swim a mile of backstroke, not slow, not fast, medium-slow.
Hey, what about that Canadian woman who only swims open water doing butterfly? She'd need this training for sure, but it is unlikely anyone else would. I can't think of her name off-hand. She did Catalina Channel butterfly; can you imagine?
Donna
I am not saying it is wrong to do these swims but it is really useless swimming when there is no event over 200m for these three strokes. Over the years I only do kicking practice on my back. I have met her several times but in fact I have a picture of a group of swimmers who do the swims but for me I never did a marathon swim that was not a race or did not have prze money.
