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@dooks
fly main set from last night.
800 warm up (alternating free and back)
16x25 fly (with fins) on 30 secs (repeat x4 w/50 easy between 16s)
400 freestyle pull w/pullbouy
4x100 breaststoke kick (2 kicks to 1 pull)
8x25 medley sprints (each 25 on 1 minute)
my fly seems to have hit a bit of a flat spot lately. i don't seem to be improving all that much.
the epiphany that I had last year when i finally got that wave-like like body motion and the two kicks per stroke to click has subsided andI've realaised i'm now over-emphasising this movement, going too deep and spending too much time gliding underwater. It's much easier to do and means i can swim whole fly sets without wanting to die, but it's not that quick.
I was watching the really fast guys and girls out of the corner of my eye last night and their movement is wave-like but actually quite shallow. It looks almost effortless, as if the dolphin-esque movement of the body is providing the basic propulsion and they're using their arms and legs to provide a sort of turbo-boost on top of that. they tend to only breathe every other stroke too. very impressive