How much Drill - How much Swim

My masters team does very little drill work. Coach throws it in as little parts of a set, but it's always something like 50 drill, 100 swim x 4, or the like. No definition of what stroke, what drill, etc., so you get people doing free & people doing different strokes tripping over one another, or skipping to keep up. My kids team, on the other hand, does a tremendous amount of drill work. Serious drills done on inervals with assigned stroke & drill. For example, the other night we did 3300 yds and it was fly week. We only did 1000 yds total freestyle swim (200 warm-up and 4 x 200 as part of a fly drill set), the rest of the practice was fly--sets of kick drills & swim drills, with 4 x 100 IM swim thrown in one set, and a set of 8 x 25 fly swim at the end of practice. Since, I've been working out with the kids more, my swim times have been imrpoving. Doing drills makes me take time to really think about stroke mechanics and then apply it to swim sets. Drills work if they are done correctly and then applied. If one just "goes through the motions" they are only more "junk" yards.

My masters team does very little drill work. Coach throws it in as little parts of a set, but it's always something like 50 drill, 100 swim x 4, or the like. No definition of what stroke, what drill, etc., so you get people doing free & people doing different strokes tripping over one another, or skipping to keep up. My kids team, on the other hand, does a tremendous amount of drill work. Serious drills done on inervals with assigned stroke & drill. For example, the other night we did 3300 yds and it was fly week. We only did 1000 yds total freestyle swim (200 warm-up and 4 x 200 as part of a fly drill set), the rest of the practice was fly--sets of kick drills & swim drills, with 4 x 100 IM swim thrown in one set, and a set of 8 x 25 fly swim at the end of practice. Since, I've been working out with the kids more, my swim times have been imrpoving. Doing drills makes me take time to really think about stroke mechanics and then apply it to swim sets. Drills work if they are done correctly and then applied. If one just "goes through the motions" they are only more "junk" yards.