I find myself being very oriented toward short axis. I find that my butterfly is just as fast as my freestyle and my breaststroke just is fast as my backstroke. Anybody else experience this? Could be that I just don't swim enough. Also does training for butterfly and training for breastroke compliment each other well? Mostly a butterflier but also somewhat an IM'er and am wondering if i train breastroke more than i have will it still be beneficial to fly or should i just stick mostly with fly?
Thanks, Steve
Even though I can do fly and ***, I know plenty of people who are bad in one or the other. I know plenty of guys who are great in the fly and back (and back is my weakest stroke). Personally, I don't think there is much, if any, correlation. It would be interesting to see some stats on this, but it would be hard to measure. You'd have to take a large subset of swimmers and see who makes a top 100 list in fly and *** events, then see how many made back and free. And then eliminate the people who are good at all the strokes. The difficulty with that is many swimmers will only do a handful of events on taper, so you don't know how fast they would have been in every event.
I don't think there is any substitution for fly, but it's not necessary to train fly every day. If nothing else, swimming *** mixes up your practices so you're not doing the same stuff all the time.
Even though I can do fly and ***, I know plenty of people who are bad in one or the other. I know plenty of guys who are great in the fly and back (and back is my weakest stroke). Personally, I don't think there is much, if any, correlation. It would be interesting to see some stats on this, but it would be hard to measure. You'd have to take a large subset of swimmers and see who makes a top 100 list in fly and *** events, then see how many made back and free. And then eliminate the people who are good at all the strokes. The difficulty with that is many swimmers will only do a handful of events on taper, so you don't know how fast they would have been in every event.
I don't think there is any substitution for fly, but it's not necessary to train fly every day. If nothing else, swimming *** mixes up your practices so you're not doing the same stuff all the time.
