IMers, We're Jacks & Jills of all trades
Fly back *** free
We gotta have speed but we gotta last to finish fast.
It takes strategy & conditioning.
We train equal amounts of all 4 or have a fatal flaw.
We try to make our worst stroke not so bad.
It's worked well for Ryan Michael Eric, Ariana Kirsty & Stephony
What did you do in practice today?
the breastroke lane
The Middle Distance Lane
The Backstroke Lane
The Butterfly Lane
The SDK Lane
The Taper Lane
The Distance Lane
The IM Lane
The Sprint Free Lane
The Pool Deck
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Yes, good advice, but advice that I don't follow very well at all. :) My fly is my core of the IM, and I have to take full advantage of it. Even if I back off a little, my backstroke still sucks, and my breaststroke is decent enough after the backstroke recovery. So I just 90-100% my fly in all IMs. Not the advice for most swimmers out there, but works for me.
I have to side with James on this one......the 100IM is all out anyway, the 200 is all out on fly and hang in there for the rest, but the 400 has yet to be raced. I'm working on the principle of needing to improve my back & *** so they don't totally fall apart having just swum a hard 100 fly.
However, Karl - you're a backstroker right? So I would think that even after going out hard on fly, you'd manage a decent backstroke leg and maybe even recover a little in time for the ***? I have heard that the back and *** should be swum at 200 pace, but not being a back/breaststroker I have no idea what that is!
Yes, good advice, but advice that I don't follow very well at all. :) My fly is my core of the IM, and I have to take full advantage of it. Even if I back off a little, my backstroke still sucks, and my breaststroke is decent enough after the backstroke recovery. So I just 90-100% my fly in all IMs. Not the advice for most swimmers out there, but works for me.
I have to side with James on this one......the 100IM is all out anyway, the 200 is all out on fly and hang in there for the rest, but the 400 has yet to be raced. I'm working on the principle of needing to improve my back & *** so they don't totally fall apart having just swum a hard 100 fly.
However, Karl - you're a backstroker right? So I would think that even after going out hard on fly, you'd manage a decent backstroke leg and maybe even recover a little in time for the ***? I have heard that the back and *** should be swum at 200 pace, but not being a back/breaststroker I have no idea what that is!
