Before I get started, I just want to say that I'm already aware of how nothing can be better than simply swimming the stroke.
Anyways, I swim at my city's community center pool and it is quite crowded in the lap lanes, on top of that, the people are not exactly polite. I need to work on my butterfly(and other strokes too, but mostly fly) for when my school's swim season starts, so it's pretty important.
Does anyone know any good drills or weight sets that I can possibly do to improve my butterfly without much time in the water? (I'm kinda starting to get sick of playing frogger every day trying to avoid people)
Thanks!
Oh, on a side note, whenever I swim for a while, I get really noticeable dark circles under my eyes, does anyone know the cause?
Refer to the last two posts in this thread for out of water stuff:
Swimming + Gym: Is it possible? - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums
While you're in the water obviously it can be tough doing a lot of fly with people around. For the times when you can swim but want to limit your chances of hitting arms with people, all you need to do is make sure you're swimming fly when you are tired. What I mean by that is doing sets like:
10 x 100: 75 free / 25 fly on a fast pace. Add 5 seconds to your normal free pace. So if you can hold 1:15 for 10 x 100's free, do them on 1:20. If you can maintain good stroke technique when you are tired, you can avoid doing heavy pure fly yardage.
Refer to the last two posts in this thread for out of water stuff:
Swimming + Gym: Is it possible? - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums
While you're in the water obviously it can be tough doing a lot of fly with people around. For the times when you can swim but want to limit your chances of hitting arms with people, all you need to do is make sure you're swimming fly when you are tired. What I mean by that is doing sets like:
10 x 100: 75 free / 25 fly on a fast pace. Add 5 seconds to your normal free pace. So if you can hold 1:15 for 10 x 100's free, do them on 1:20. If you can maintain good stroke technique when you are tired, you can avoid doing heavy pure fly yardage.
