I'm not too worried about the turning aspects...just a little unsure of what to do at the backstroke to *** turn.
Also any good workouts for this?
I'm doing 900 free for warm up (0-1650 in 6 weeks) then trey to do another 1500 per workout.
I've obviously been hitting *** but want to get some fly and back work in as well as turns--obviously I can always go to the wall and touch then turn but that's inefficient.
Is doing a 100 IM then hitting sets of 50 of fly and back or what? I've ordered a couple of books for reference and they should get here shortly.
Any thoughts or articles?
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I say get as much of an underwater pullout as humanly possible on the back to *** turn.....It doesn't really matter exactly how you do the turn IMO (as long as its legal).....the important thing is to make sure you ge enough air sucked into your lungs going into the underwater pullout....If you can make it more than half way down the pool underwater, then you only have to fake your way through about 10-12 yards of actual breasstroke before you go into freestyle......This is why I am ONLY doing 100 IMS from now on (as opposed to 200 IMS and 400 IMS where there's no way around the breaststroke at all!!).
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. According to FlyQueen's recent posting here, you can't completely "roll over" onto your side when doing a back to *** turn without getting DQ'd....So I guess Rich will be waiting a LONG time then for FlyQueen...LOL!:thhbbb: :rofl: :rofl:
I say get as much of an underwater pullout as humanly possible on the back to *** turn.....It doesn't really matter exactly how you do the turn IMO (as long as its legal).....the important thing is to make sure you ge enough air sucked into your lungs going into the underwater pullout....If you can make it more than half way down the pool underwater, then you only have to fake your way through about 10-12 yards of actual breasstroke before you go into freestyle......This is why I am ONLY doing 100 IMS from now on (as opposed to 200 IMS and 400 IMS where there's no way around the breaststroke at all!!).
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. According to FlyQueen's recent posting here, you can't completely "roll over" onto your side when doing a back to *** turn without getting DQ'd....So I guess Rich will be waiting a LONG time then for FlyQueen...LOL!:thhbbb: :rofl: :rofl:
