The Butterfly Lane

Thanks, That Guy! I swam a 25 both mornings this week. It's the last thing I do before warming down, but I was wondering whether it would be better to do my butterfly practice after my initial warm-up, when I'm fresher? Also, by how much per week should I realistically increase my distance during my workouts? I'm in pretty good swimming shape, so I'm thinking at the very least I need to add more SDKs to my kicking workouts (my group swims freestyle exclusively) and butterfly drills to help with conditioning my "fly" muscles. I appreciate the encouragement and any tips you can share. When to swim different parts of a workout (warm-up, main set, drills. kicking, race pace swim, etc) seems like a personal preference thing to me. Do what works for you. As for the rest, take a long term and conservative view. Set a goal to improve by some reasonable % in the next year, two years, five years, etc. If you get there sooner than expected, then that's a great problem to have, and you then get to recalibrate your goals for the better. The flip side of that is that on this forum, typically when I see people post that they think they can improve something by X% in the next Y weeks, it generally doesn't happen because the timeframe was too short and/or the % improvement was unrealistic.

Thanks, That Guy! I swam a 25 both mornings this week. It's the last thing I do before warming down, but I was wondering whether it would be better to do my butterfly practice after my initial warm-up, when I'm fresher? Also, by how much per week should I realistically increase my distance during my workouts? I'm in pretty good swimming shape, so I'm thinking at the very least I need to add more SDKs to my kicking workouts (my group swims freestyle exclusively) and butterfly drills to help with conditioning my "fly" muscles. I appreciate the encouragement and any tips you can share. When to swim different parts of a workout (warm-up, main set, drills. kicking, race pace swim, etc) seems like a personal preference thing to me. Do what works for you. As for the rest, take a long term and conservative view. Set a goal to improve by some reasonable % in the next year, two years, five years, etc. If you get there sooner than expected, then that's a great problem to have, and you then get to recalibrate your goals for the better. The flip side of that is that on this forum, typically when I see people post that they think they can improve something by X% in the next Y weeks, it generally doesn't happen because the timeframe was too short and/or the % improvement was unrealistic.