How Can I Make My Body Dolphin Better?

I just joined masters. I swam fly in 1950. I am retracing my steps 57 years later. I normally swim about 1600 meters a workout. How do I build my fly endurance. I swam frog kick in 50 so this discussion very interesting. I swim in the 75-80 age group. I can inelegantly fly about 25 meters now. Any suggestions? I do 100 free in about 1'10" working out. You do a 100 free in 1:10 in the 75 - 80 age group. :groovy: I am full of awe and admiration. I want to be able to say that too when I am your age! Thank you for the inspiration. I have just recently started swimming fly and I have found doing long sets of 25's (alternating free and fly) helped a lot. At first 25 was all I could do until I lapsed into 'butterstruggle' so 25 was all I did. More recently I have expanded into sets 50's and 75's. My goal: to be able to do a set of 10 x 100 @ 2:00 and to compete in a 200m fly race. Another suggestion (and I think this came up in a TI thread) is to do a 500 and at the beginning of each length do as many butterfly strokes as you can before your stroke starts to break down. The rest do easy free. For instance: initially you might only be doing 3 strokes of fly at the beginning of each length and the rest free. As you get stronger, you build that up: 4 then 5, etc until eventually you are doing the entire distance fly. Check out this thread, too. forums.usms.org/showthread.php has some good info in it. Good luck with the fly and please tell us your progress. I would love to hear about it. And welcome to USMS! Syd

I just joined masters. I swam fly in 1950. I am retracing my steps 57 years later. I normally swim about 1600 meters a workout. How do I build my fly endurance. I swam frog kick in 50 so this discussion very interesting. I swim in the 75-80 age group. I can inelegantly fly about 25 meters now. Any suggestions? I do 100 free in about 1'10" working out. You do a 100 free in 1:10 in the 75 - 80 age group. :groovy: I am full of awe and admiration. I want to be able to say that too when I am your age! Thank you for the inspiration. I have just recently started swimming fly and I have found doing long sets of 25's (alternating free and fly) helped a lot. At first 25 was all I could do until I lapsed into 'butterstruggle' so 25 was all I did. More recently I have expanded into sets 50's and 75's. My goal: to be able to do a set of 10 x 100 @ 2:00 and to compete in a 200m fly race. Another suggestion (and I think this came up in a TI thread) is to do a 500 and at the beginning of each length do as many butterfly strokes as you can before your stroke starts to break down. The rest do easy free. For instance: initially you might only be doing 3 strokes of fly at the beginning of each length and the rest free. As you get stronger, you build that up: 4 then 5, etc until eventually you are doing the entire distance fly. Check out this thread, too. forums.usms.org/showthread.php has some good info in it. Good luck with the fly and please tell us your progress. I would love to hear about it. And welcome to USMS! Syd