I'm not from a competitive swimming background but has volunteer to coach our informal masters group once a week. I'm trying to establish a theme for each session (8-10 weeks). Last one was the 1000 yards. We did lots of pace work and endurance sets for the last 2 months. This next session I've decided to focus on the 100 Fly.
Most of the swimmers can do 25 or 50 yards for a few repeats but that's all. Most of the swimmers are 40-50 years old with no competitive swim background either. Our workouts are 1 hour (3 x week).
Does anyone have any suggestions on sets for 100 Fly or just good resources for coaching in general.
Thanks so much!!
:)
Hi Linda and Friends,
I just started a new Masters group and these swimmers are pretty inexperienced except for a couple of women who are pretty good flyers. I decided to do a mini-clinic on butterfly. It was very well-received. Here are the points I made: (1) Breathe early in the stroke; head goes down and thrusts forward; butt comes up (2)Head should be down before You start the recovery! – Head Down, Butt Up (3) Slow Down! – don’t rush the stroke – Glide! – pull all the way through (4) Stroke count should be about half what your freestyle count is. Then, I got in the water to show them all these points. And I asked them what my stroke count was; did I glide; did I rush the stroke; did I keep my head down, etc. Then they returned to the water and did 6-8 x 25 with about :10 rest, then followed that with 4 x 50 (25 dolphin u/w and 25 alternating 1-arm). Some of them actually got it! I was pleased. We’ll do another session with them in a couple weeks and add some of the finer points of butterfly. The first step is to understand the dolphin motion and how to coordinate head, arms and legs.
Hi Linda and Friends,
I just started a new Masters group and these swimmers are pretty inexperienced except for a couple of women who are pretty good flyers. I decided to do a mini-clinic on butterfly. It was very well-received. Here are the points I made: (1) Breathe early in the stroke; head goes down and thrusts forward; butt comes up (2)Head should be down before You start the recovery! – Head Down, Butt Up (3) Slow Down! – don’t rush the stroke – Glide! – pull all the way through (4) Stroke count should be about half what your freestyle count is. Then, I got in the water to show them all these points. And I asked them what my stroke count was; did I glide; did I rush the stroke; did I keep my head down, etc. Then they returned to the water and did 6-8 x 25 with about :10 rest, then followed that with 4 x 50 (25 dolphin u/w and 25 alternating 1-arm). Some of them actually got it! I was pleased. We’ll do another session with them in a couple weeks and add some of the finer points of butterfly. The first step is to understand the dolphin motion and how to coordinate head, arms and legs.
