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?
More observations about swimming IM in my workouts.
Yesterday was a combination of 100 and 200 IM swims. Can someone tell me why I can swim a 200 with less misery and pain than the 100? I did the 100's around 1:30 and after each, hang on the wall gasping until I go again. The 200's are at a slightly slower pace, around 3:05-3:10 and I don't feel nearly so wiped out after.
Although I think Rich was joking with his response, 100 IM's sometimes wipe me out more than 200's too because (my whacked out theory here) there is less 'space' between the fly. You know, you only get 3 laps of other stuff to recover in between the fly on 100. On the 200, although you have a 50 fly all at once, you get 6 laps of other stuff to recover. :-) (Spoken like a true-non-flyer and someone whose backstroke doesn't go fast enough to be anything but a recovery stroke...)
Although I think Rich was joking with his response, 100 IM's sometimes wipe me out more than 200's too because (my whacked out theory here) there is less 'space' between the fly. You know, you only get 3 laps of other stuff to recover in between the fly on 100. On the 200, although you have a 50 fly all at once, you get 6 laps of other stuff to recover. :-) (Spoken like a true-non-flyer and someone whose backstroke doesn't go fast enough to be anything but a recovery stroke...)
Rich is giving me a bad time because on another thread I mentioned using the back to recover from the fly.
Interesting thing with the 200IM.
More observations about swimming IM in my workouts.
Yesterday was a combination of 100 and 200 IM swims. Can someone tell me why I can swim a 200 with less misery and pain than the 100? I did the 100's around 1:30 and after each, hang on the wall gasping until I go again. The 200's are at a slightly slower pace, around 3:05-3:10 and I don't feel nearly so wiped out after.
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More observations about swimming IM in my workouts.
Yesterday was a combination of 100 and 200 IM swims. Can someone tell me why I can swim a 200 with less misery and pain than the 100? I did the 100's around 1:30 and after each, hang on the wall gasping until I go again. The 200's are at a slightly slower pace, around 3:05-3:10 and I don't feel nearly so wiped out after.
More recovery time napping in the 50 of back...:drink:
If you are really pushing the 100s they should take longer to recover. You should be swimming the 100s fast enough to be using more anaerobic metabolism than in a 200 and that takes more time to recover from.
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Let's be honest the 200 fly is a bit short ... sign up for that short little 500 free and do that fly, then the mile ...
Last year, one of my friends on my college club team did the 500 free all fly as a dare. I think he got a free dinner out of it - totally not worth it for over ten minutes of torture.
