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
Do you need to train fly to swim it fast?
IMO you need to do a certain minimum fly swimming and/or drilling to maintain "muscle memory" (or whatever you want to call it) for efficient swimming.
I've known many fly sprinters who don't do much fly in practice. Anecdotal evidence for 200 fly is more mixed. When I was in college and swam the event, I definitely felt like I needed to do a lot in practice. Now I am less sure. I believe the coach at the University of Richmond does not much like his swimmers to do fly when tired; the fly repeats tend to be shorter reps with enough recovery time that stroke efficiency doesn't suffer.
And then there is this example of Becky Fenson who has done 10K fly in the Hudson river:
In the pool, she does a lot of fly kick on her back and butterfly drills with freestyle mixed in. “Most of my pool swimming is freestyle.”
Do you need to train fly to swim it fast?
IMO you need to do a certain minimum fly swimming and/or drilling to maintain "muscle memory" (or whatever you want to call it) for efficient swimming.
I've known many fly sprinters who don't do much fly in practice. Anecdotal evidence for 200 fly is more mixed. When I was in college and swam the event, I definitely felt like I needed to do a lot in practice. Now I am less sure. I believe the coach at the University of Richmond does not much like his swimmers to do fly when tired; the fly repeats tend to be shorter reps with enough recovery time that stroke efficiency doesn't suffer.
And then there is this example of Becky Fenson who has done 10K fly in the Hudson river:
In the pool, she does a lot of fly kick on her back and butterfly drills with freestyle mixed in. “Most of my pool swimming is freestyle.”
