This is more of a question of curiosity than anything.
I mainly swim freestyle in practice. When we do IM sets, I will do the fly, and sometimes the back parts, but if I am trying to keep up with my lane's interval, I usually skip *** stroke. I have noticed the more fly I swim, the better my cardio feels for longer free sets. So I want to do more fly.
I grew up a freestyler, 50, 100, 200 mostly. I also swam IM, but not the 400. I grew tired of swimming and switched career sports, so I never learned the answer to my question (below).
For individuals who compete in the 100 or 200 fly, or the 400 IM, what kinds of fly workouts do they do?
When I do 15 x 100s freestyle as set, do fly swimmers do 10-15 x 100s fly? That just seems painful to me. I am not sure I could even do 5 100s fly, maybe with fins.
Thanks for the replies.
every friday is fly day with my club. two weeks ago the main set was as follows:
4 x 200 @ 2:45 add-on fly desc. 1-4
4 x 200 @ 2:20 AE free
4 x 200 @ 2:45 add-on fly desc. 1-4
add-on fly means you do 150fr/50fly on #1, 100fr/100fly on #2, 50fr/150 fly on #3, and #4 is all fly.
a lot of our fly days involve drills, drills, drills. maybe a long (2.5-4k yd/mtr) set with lots of drill, kicks, and then some 100s descend at the end repeated several times.\
**edit**
basically fly day will be around 6k yards/meters (so less than the other 5 days we practice a week) but at most 50% of it is fly, and of that, as i said above, only a small percentage is "fast" or endurance fly.
I dont think we have ever done more than maybe 5 100s in a row on an interval all fly. we mix it up.
every friday is fly day with my club. two weeks ago the main set was as follows:
4 x 200 @ 2:45 add-on fly desc. 1-4
4 x 200 @ 2:20 AE free
4 x 200 @ 2:45 add-on fly desc. 1-4
add-on fly means you do 150fr/50fly on #1, 100fr/100fly on #2, 50fr/150 fly on #3, and #4 is all fly.
a lot of our fly days involve drills, drills, drills. maybe a long (2.5-4k yd/mtr) set with lots of drill, kicks, and then some 100s descend at the end repeated several times.\
**edit**
basically fly day will be around 6k yards/meters (so less than the other 5 days we practice a week) but at most 50% of it is fly, and of that, as i said above, only a small percentage is "fast" or endurance fly.
I dont think we have ever done more than maybe 5 100s in a row on an interval all fly. we mix it up.
