I started swimming again about 8 months ago and would like to get to where I can compete again. It has been almost 15 years since I competed in college and my swimming definitely shows it. I was a fly and IM swimmer all of my life but after all this time my fly timing is messed up. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can return to the easy fly I once did? I can still keep up with the youngsters when kicking so I know my kick is strong. I do not know what has happened to the rest of the stroke. I would really like to swim IM again. I could also use any ideas for great IM workouts that could be done on my own. I long for the easy rythm of fly I once had.
I am a lost butterflier.
Lee Anne:( :(
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Originally posted by Lee Anne Dunham
Where are you placing your second kick?
I had to think about that a bit. All I knew is that I eventually changed the timing of the second kick so that it came later and helped to lift my head out of the water. Before that, it took a lot of effort to lift my head, so that I would do two or three strokes between breaths. This works fine for a 50 but proves to be a disaster for anything longer.
Anyway, today when I was swimming I tried to think about when I was doing that second kick, and it seemed to me that I was doing it when my arms had almost finished their under water pull. Doing the kick later is what makes it easy to get the head out of the water. Before changing my timing, the two kicks were very close together. The coach told me that is a very common mistake when people swim fly.
Maybe Coach Emmett will jump in and explain it better. He is the one who wrote the butterstruggle article. :-)
Originally posted by Lee Anne Dunham
Where are you placing your second kick?
I had to think about that a bit. All I knew is that I eventually changed the timing of the second kick so that it came later and helped to lift my head out of the water. Before that, it took a lot of effort to lift my head, so that I would do two or three strokes between breaths. This works fine for a 50 but proves to be a disaster for anything longer.
Anyway, today when I was swimming I tried to think about when I was doing that second kick, and it seemed to me that I was doing it when my arms had almost finished their under water pull. Doing the kick later is what makes it easy to get the head out of the water. Before changing my timing, the two kicks were very close together. The coach told me that is a very common mistake when people swim fly.
Maybe Coach Emmett will jump in and explain it better. He is the one who wrote the butterstruggle article. :-)
