Introduction.
I coach 3 mornings a week at a 25 meter pool with an average of 25 swimmers in 5 lanes. I coach 2 evenings a week at a 25 yard pool with an average of 12-14 swimmers in 5 lanes. Both workouts are for one hour. They are mixed groups with competitive swimmers, triathletes, and people who just want a good workout. Ages range from 20 to 87, with an occassional teen-ager dropping in. My emphasis is on techinique and pace. I swim 3 days a week with a coach at a Y pool. I use some sets that I learn from my coach, Laura Peter. I also write a workout for myself for Saturday mornings. The workouts that I coach are 2500-2800 meters for the fastest lane, scaled down for other lanes. In the yard pool, they are 2700-3000 yards for the fastest lanes. For my personal workouts, I aim for 2500 yards and try to boost it to 2700 in the fall.
You have exposed my major weakness as a coach. I am not comfortable coaching fly.
However, I will share what I have read.
1. Butter/flutter helped Emmitt Hines' team get ready for 200 fly. They would swim 200 fly (I don't know how many) and swim fly each length until they lost the stroke, they switch to free. Over the season, they were able to build up how much fly they could do each length. This makes sense to me because you are increasing the fly, but only swimming it correctly as you do so.
2. Other flyers will swim fly on the last 25 or last 50 of set of repeats. Go free 150, finish with 50 fly.
3. Sometimes I have flyers alternate 25 free/25 fly or 50 free/50 fly.
I hope this helps a little.
You have exposed my major weakness as a coach. I am not comfortable coaching fly.
However, I will share what I have read.
1. Butter/flutter helped Emmitt Hines' team get ready for 200 fly. They would swim 200 fly (I don't know how many) and swim fly each length until they lost the stroke, they switch to free. Over the season, they were able to build up how much fly they could do each length. This makes sense to me because you are increasing the fly, but only swimming it correctly as you do so.
2. Other flyers will swim fly on the last 25 or last 50 of set of repeats. Go free 150, finish with 50 fly.
3. Sometimes I have flyers alternate 25 free/25 fly or 50 free/50 fly.
I hope this helps a little.
