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?
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Do lots of fly in practice. Swim 200s (or 225yds) kick and drill, keep it steady and get used to swimming fly-something for that long.
I gradually built up my fly distance over 3 months, so the first couple of weeks my workouts included 2 lots of 4 x 50 fly, on 1.15 I think. Then I went up to 4 x 75s on 1.45 or similar, until I finally managed 3 x 175. After that I was in the LCM pool, so jumped to a full 200 LCM - OUCH!!
So you have what 10 weeks? As our friend Stephen Covey says "Begin with the end in mind".
You need to complete 225 yards/200m full stroke fly by the end of Jan. You can already do 4 lengths, so this week work on 5 lengths, then every 2 weeks add on another length to your sets and you'll be there easily :D
I really must get off my (rather large) bottom for this big local meet in January - having pondered on I will enter for the 100m fly but start to train now for the 200m as suggested
By end January I will hopefully be able to sail through a 100m - but be looking forward to a 200m ( if that is possible?) - and not have a 200 fly race hanging over my head like the sword of damocles .....
Do lots of fly in practice. Swim 200s (or 225yds) kick and drill, keep it steady and get used to swimming fly-something for that long.
I gradually built up my fly distance over 3 months, so the first couple of weeks my workouts included 2 lots of 4 x 50 fly, on 1.15 I think. Then I went up to 4 x 75s on 1.45 or similar, until I finally managed 3 x 175. After that I was in the LCM pool, so jumped to a full 200 LCM - OUCH!!
So you have what 10 weeks? As our friend Stephen Covey says "Begin with the end in mind".
You need to complete 225 yards/200m full stroke fly by the end of Jan. You can already do 4 lengths, so this week work on 5 lengths, then every 2 weeks add on another length to your sets and you'll be there easily :D
I really must get off my (rather large) bottom for this big local meet in January - having pondered on I will enter for the 100m fly but start to train now for the 200m as suggested
By end January I will hopefully be able to sail through a 100m - but be looking forward to a 200m ( if that is possible?) - and not have a 200 fly race hanging over my head like the sword of damocles .....
