We had a videotaping session in practice on Wed and I got some video of my butterfly. I've been trying to work on my butterfly lately but I could really use some pointers and suggestions for specific things to work on and how to work on them.
Clearly the turnover is too slow. Lack of range of motion in my shoulders doesn't allow me to keep my hands at the surface while my chest is down the way that people like Phelps do. In the underwater side view it looks like my hips sink way too much and then don't quite make it back up to the surface, but I don't know what to do about that other than a quicker recovery.
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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My workout today was not as good as on Saturday.
I thought I would try to transfer the feel I had Saturday with fins on to swimming without fins, and it didn't work at all. Eventually I gave up and put the fins back on, and even then it took me a long time to get back to something that felt faintly like Saturday. I did, I believe, set a personal record for most lengths of fly in one workout, even if they were all 25s with lots of rest.
I have two new theories to test. The first is that the wide entry is not so much the silver bullet as it seemed, I think that breathing really early and getting back down into the water early in the recovery is the focal point that leads to the feel I was getting Saturday, I think the wide entry just makes it easier to do that. The wide entry, shoulder extension and quick catch etc. that I was focusing on Saturday do seem to bring the kick that occurs as the hands enter into a better timing than I had before.
Tomorrow I'll go back to a primary focus on breath timing/body rhythm and a secondary focus on the wide entry with extension and quick catch. Hopefully this won't all prove to be a dead end style that I can only do wearing fins.
I also finally found my "Go Swim with Misty Hyman" DVD, it talks about some of this stuff. Perhaps I should get in the habit of watching all my DVDs once a month.
My workout today was not as good as on Saturday.
I thought I would try to transfer the feel I had Saturday with fins on to swimming without fins, and it didn't work at all. Eventually I gave up and put the fins back on, and even then it took me a long time to get back to something that felt faintly like Saturday. I did, I believe, set a personal record for most lengths of fly in one workout, even if they were all 25s with lots of rest.
I have two new theories to test. The first is that the wide entry is not so much the silver bullet as it seemed, I think that breathing really early and getting back down into the water early in the recovery is the focal point that leads to the feel I was getting Saturday, I think the wide entry just makes it easier to do that. The wide entry, shoulder extension and quick catch etc. that I was focusing on Saturday do seem to bring the kick that occurs as the hands enter into a better timing than I had before.
Tomorrow I'll go back to a primary focus on breath timing/body rhythm and a secondary focus on the wide entry with extension and quick catch. Hopefully this won't all prove to be a dead end style that I can only do wearing fins.
I also finally found my "Go Swim with Misty Hyman" DVD, it talks about some of this stuff. Perhaps I should get in the habit of watching all my DVDs once a month.
