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?
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ndecker, I usually swim 50 fly in the medley, and during the IM. However, I may be swimming the 100 fly on top of the two, and I haven't swam that in two years at least.
Chris, I will kick underwater with my arms at my sides to get the motions, other than that I streamline kick under water or use a board. And I try to keep one armed fly to a minimum now since the pool gets more and more crowded every time i show up.
But today I got a pretty good workout, I did 10x80 IMs and my fly felt fine for not going fast at all, my breaststroke seems to make my arms feel like "rubber"...I can't get back into that pocket that I was for breaststroke anymore, I guess that'll be my secondary focus after butterfly.
ndecker, I usually swim 50 fly in the medley, and during the IM. However, I may be swimming the 100 fly on top of the two, and I haven't swam that in two years at least.
Chris, I will kick underwater with my arms at my sides to get the motions, other than that I streamline kick under water or use a board. And I try to keep one armed fly to a minimum now since the pool gets more and more crowded every time i show up.
But today I got a pretty good workout, I did 10x80 IMs and my fly felt fine for not going fast at all, my breaststroke seems to make my arms feel like "rubber"...I can't get back into that pocket that I was for breaststroke anymore, I guess that'll be my secondary focus after butterfly.
