Hey everyone!
I've been reading these posts for months and following the great workout ideas and opinions and it has definitly helped me out! Up till before end of exams and the onset of bronchitis/cold which took me out, out of a month, I was able to fly 200y/m!!!!
My athletic past...I rode track cycling, ran Xcountry, only started swimming 3 years ago but i've really took on butterfly! Last summer I joined a master's club here in Montreal and have got great tips/feedback.
I'm at a point now with the fly where in training pace, for a 25m pool, I can fly around 17-20 secs as a training/fast pace and usually need 6-9 strokes. I have some tinkering to do(ie flexibility) But I am a very strong tall guy!
So my question....
I have a race coming up next month and then back to school for summer(Waterloo University) where I am planning to do more races in the fall(Hopefully maybe get good enough to get on varsity team as flyer?). I hear alot abotu resistance training but one look at me and you'll think "**** he's a strong motherf***" I do have a muscled build and I think my weakness is my core strength/endurance?
I am the quickest one to get excited in doing dryland...ie i used to be a gym enthusiast(I LOVE the Squat area cause of my love for cycling) But now I'm totally focused as a flyer(well on the side I'm training for a 1:30 half marathon hehehe).
Anyway with all that out...I was wondering the following things:
-> I can manage 15-20km a week consistantly for my training. I do IM/Freestyle and looking to hit up a open course longdistance freestyle swim for endurance(I've done Half Ironmans during 2nd year of university hehe). How much % should my fly take up if I am looking to specialize in it?? I know question is...50,100,200??? Err I am better suited cause of my power for the 50 and 100 but I have done half ironmans, full marathons and stuff. I do that IM/freestyle of course for conditioning.
-> What dryland stuff can I do to improve my overall conditioning for the fly specifically? When I say I am strong...well I can easily do FULL-MAN chinups/dips with additional weight and I beg for more :P
-> I'm currently working on fly drills/core everyday. I've only recovered from Bronchitis...is this a good approach?
I could ask my masters coach but he/she is not a fly specialist and I can't attend this term to most practises cause of schedule but I have time outside of it?
Any ideas or suggestions would be great and awesome!! And I'm totally excited I am finally part of this community!!!
-Eager and Excited Fly newbie
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Actually it's much easier for me to spill my energy when typing it out :P In training, I'm usually very quiet and to myself because I find that to have good technique, I'm just silent, focusing and doing my workout.
Once I step out of the water(or the track or the squat/bench racks) I am the "life of the party" I'm very european like that haha always with style I say :D. And yea I'm pretty loud so that is why it helps being quiet because I have energy bottled up and use it productively :D
And yes...I am known to wear my "emotions on my sleeve" sometimes. But that's the beauty of the butterfly for me is that, not only can I express myself in the water, but I can really feel my stroke. Definitly I have improved for my overall swimming the touch and the "feeling", the flexibility. My freestyle has definitly improved over time after I started focusing more on fly, I just feel more as one unit(rather then two seperate components trying to do the stroke correctly).
It's funny...when I was focusing on freestyle, I loved swimming the hard intervals or with BIG paddles because it felt like hard endurance...it's just the feeling I got that was beautiful...the same I got when I would do sprinting on my bike(and yea definitly in road cycling crew, i was teh loudest and always challenging group 1 riders for sprints :D!)...but once I started learning and training fly...I fell in love :)!
And thank you for the butternut comment :) It suits me.....because often times in training or outside of it, people think I'm on crack hahahaha :P! I'm just me :)
Actually it's much easier for me to spill my energy when typing it out :P In training, I'm usually very quiet and to myself because I find that to have good technique, I'm just silent, focusing and doing my workout.
Once I step out of the water(or the track or the squat/bench racks) I am the "life of the party" I'm very european like that haha always with style I say :D. And yea I'm pretty loud so that is why it helps being quiet because I have energy bottled up and use it productively :D
And yes...I am known to wear my "emotions on my sleeve" sometimes. But that's the beauty of the butterfly for me is that, not only can I express myself in the water, but I can really feel my stroke. Definitly I have improved for my overall swimming the touch and the "feeling", the flexibility. My freestyle has definitly improved over time after I started focusing more on fly, I just feel more as one unit(rather then two seperate components trying to do the stroke correctly).
It's funny...when I was focusing on freestyle, I loved swimming the hard intervals or with BIG paddles because it felt like hard endurance...it's just the feeling I got that was beautiful...the same I got when I would do sprinting on my bike(and yea definitly in road cycling crew, i was teh loudest and always challenging group 1 riders for sprints :D!)...but once I started learning and training fly...I fell in love :)!
And thank you for the butternut comment :) It suits me.....because often times in training or outside of it, people think I'm on crack hahahaha :P! I'm just me :)
