So right now in my swimming "career" - I know how to swim freestyle decently. I have some adjustments to make to the stroke and a lot of strength to build up, but I can swim it for at least a mile straight without feeling like I'm going to die.
I'm learning back, from my IndySwimFit video, I have a lot of learning to do. 100 Back is killer on me in terms of cardio... (25 is rough enough), the same goes with *** stroke although - 50 is a little easier, but I'm insanely slow.
I do not know how to do butterfly, and the thought of doing it is for some reason scary! :afraid:
I'm not sure what's the best way to go about this. Do I focus on back and *** and learning them to the point where I can at least do them pretty well THEN learn butterfly? Or do I just work butterfly into my repertoire now and then work on all 3 of them simultaneously? (Have you ever tried to do butterfly on your back with *** stroke arm movements? Its insane! :rofl:)
Well, I have since learned to swim fly. As I reviewed this thread - I had TOTALLY forgotten I had even started it. So far - I'm kind of in the rough stages in it. I don't go in the water with much of a plan aside survival right now. I haven't done nearly enough of them to have a plan yet.
My biggest issue is actually my *** stroke. I'm getting very happy with my back stroke, my fly is coming along and my free is decent enough. In the last month I've dropped ~10 seconds in my 200 IM.
www.usms.org/.../swim.phpwww.usms.org/.../swim.php 'er - but until then I need to learn *** stroke before I can realistically achieve that goal. I work on it a little bit during most practices, but I haven't had extensive opportunities to delve into it yet.
Given the fact I've only really been swimming for 13 months - I'm really okay with what I'm seeing. You'll see at least 2 more 200 IMs out of me before nats though. I don't really expect to see a full 10 second drop, but we'll see :D
You can do it. I was 3:05-10 for my first few 200 IM's. I've dropped down to a 2:33 over the last few years and I think there is still much room for improvement. Just keep swimming strokes in practice and racing strokes.
The biggest differnce I have found is now I finish 50 fly with alot of energy and can attack and work the middle part of the race much better.
