Butterfly, beautiful to watch, difficult to train.
We SDK off every wall.
We're most likely to smack hands with each other and those beside us.
Fly's fun to sprint but no fun when the piano comes down
What did you do in practice today?
the breastroke lane
The Middle Distance Lane
The Backstroke Lane
The Butterfly Lane
The SDK Lane
The Taper Lane
The Distance Lane
The IM Lane
The Sprint Free Lane
The Pool Deck
There are some benefits to swimming fly in a crowded pool.
You don't get to choose your intervals and you've got to go on short rest. You have a window of opportunity between the other swimmers and you have to grab it, even if you're still out of breath from the previous swim.
To avoid collisions and/or get to clear water, you might have to take extra SDK's off the wall. For example, taking an unplanned 12 SDK's on the last 25 of a 75.
If the other swimmers in the pool are generating lots of waves, you're occasionally going to get a faceful of water instead of a breath. That can and will happen in competition, so practice it!
You don't need to worry about your times when practicing fly like this. Crowding adds at least 2 seconds per 50 fly in my experience. Just get the yards in and call it good.
I swam a set of 50 flys in a situation like this yesterday. Short rest, long underwaters, choking on waves, slow times... I was dog tired by the end of it, but I got it done. :bed:
There are some benefits to swimming fly in a crowded pool.
You don't get to choose your intervals and you've got to go on short rest. You have a window of opportunity between the other swimmers and you have to grab it, even if you're still out of breath from the previous swim.
To avoid collisions and/or get to clear water, you might have to take extra SDK's off the wall. For example, taking an unplanned 12 SDK's on the last 25 of a 75.
If the other swimmers in the pool are generating lots of waves, you're occasionally going to get a faceful of water instead of a breath. That can and will happen in competition, so practice it!
You don't need to worry about your times when practicing fly like this. Crowding adds at least 2 seconds per 50 fly in my experience. Just get the yards in and call it good.
I swam a set of 50 flys in a situation like this yesterday. Short rest, long underwaters, choking on waves, slow times... I was dog tired by the end of it, but I got it done. :bed:
