my 200fly video

Not sure why I breathed back to back on lap a few laps, maybe I felt I needed a little more air. You should definitely experiment other breathing patterns (like every stroke). It would be sad to build your goals on a breathing pattern that restricts your ability to reach your full vVo2Max during the event. Very sad. So the decision of a breathing pattern should be based on test results. If you breathe more, you endup compromising the speed due to stroke mechanics. If you breathe less (than you should), you end up compromising the speed due to accumulated o2 deficit. One way or the other, it's really a matter of compromise. The more I analyze the 200m butterfly, the more I think you can't get the two: Longish and powerful SDK at every length (which increases the o2 deficit) and breathing every 2 or every 3. If you can confirm that you can do all this, I'd be glad to know. (report back later this season). I thought that this 200 was little too conservative too. But on the other hand, I studied most of Phelps' splits over the distance recently, he's going even split most of the time over 200. There's probably a reason for this... Here's just one of those races, you know... Not Phelps, just prelims, but that's ideal for studying breathing strategies (or lack of). To me, any of these swimmers that started their 200 breathing every 2 and that needs to revise the strategy mid race to switch every 1 may have committed a mistake (I say MAY, since it's impossible to tell without comparing different strategies for the same swimmer) YouTube- 200 Butterfly Prelim 2007 American Short Course Championship The winner for this start is in Lane 3. He's an every stroke breather (except for some rare occurrences). He managed an even split over the distance (almost perfectly even: 52.some / 52.some). I think the kicking is the key. I know my legs are strong from running and stair master and there is no reason why I should not be kicking more! Funny because I am in a similar situation. I perform at least 2 hours of threshold work on the stair per week (split in 30-45min workouts at max power for the duration). And yes, I confirm. Other than for some ankle flexibility issues, which doesn't seem to be your case, there's no reason why you should kick much harder than most of your opponents.

Not sure why I breathed back to back on lap a few laps, maybe I felt I needed a little more air. You should definitely experiment other breathing patterns (like every stroke). It would be sad to build your goals on a breathing pattern that restricts your ability to reach your full vVo2Max during the event. Very sad. So the decision of a breathing pattern should be based on test results. If you breathe more, you endup compromising the speed due to stroke mechanics. If you breathe less (than you should), you end up compromising the speed due to accumulated o2 deficit. One way or the other, it's really a matter of compromise. The more I analyze the 200m butterfly, the more I think you can't get the two: Longish and powerful SDK at every length (which increases the o2 deficit) and breathing every 2 or every 3. If you can confirm that you can do all this, I'd be glad to know. (report back later this season). I thought that this 200 was little too conservative too. But on the other hand, I studied most of Phelps' splits over the distance recently, he's going even split most of the time over 200. There's probably a reason for this... Here's just one of those races, you know... Not Phelps, just prelims, but that's ideal for studying breathing strategies (or lack of). To me, any of these swimmers that started their 200 breathing every 2 and that needs to revise the strategy mid race to switch every 1 may have committed a mistake (I say MAY, since it's impossible to tell without comparing different strategies for the same swimmer) YouTube- 200 Butterfly Prelim 2007 American Short Course Championship The winner for this start is in Lane 3. He's an every stroke breather (except for some rare occurrences). He managed an even split over the distance (almost perfectly even: 52.some / 52.some). I think the kicking is the key. I know my legs are strong from running and stair master and there is no reason why I should not be kicking more! Funny because I am in a similar situation. I perform at least 2 hours of threshold work on the stair per week (split in 30-45min workouts at max power for the duration). And yes, I confirm. Other than for some ankle flexibility issues, which doesn't seem to be your case, there's no reason why you should kick much harder than most of your opponents.