drag race schools How do you build endurance for butterfly swimming?
I run but mostly swim almost everyday for an hour, use a drag suit, and have trained with paddles and fins. I just recently began to swim competitively for my high school and am wondering how to do the butterfly for a 100 yard race? I've got the style in my muscle memory and the kick. My stroke's good but I get way too tired, especially off the turns. For some reason, slowing down and then having to kick underwater 9 times without oxygen burns me out. Help! Also, do push-ups or crunches help?
butterfly is one of those most demanding strokes next to... believe or not breast stroke. fly is a short axis stroke meaning it requires you to use your core which is one of the main body parts you need for swimming.
to swim fly you need broad shoulders, long arms, small legs, strong core, strong will, and amazing technique. if your not blessed with these gifts you can learn to compensate. for the most part i would recommend more swimming, in general. if you're practicing an hour a day you're missing out on great opportunities.
swimming doesn't mean that because you use certain things you'll get faster. fliers have to understand how to grip the water and how to move quickly while doing so. when you swim fly you should be taking two kicks per one stroke, the best way is one strong kick when your hands enter and one when your hands are pulling down at about your ab level you do this to provide constant movement with your kick. as for your hips they should be coming out of the water, but naturally, as part of an undulating movement of the body that starts with the abs and goes down the the feet. let your hips drop but not to far and keep your legs going no matter how tiring a race can get. most importantly get a complete stroke every time that reaches out, although extremely tiring and difficult to do when you start to fade it teaches you endurance, commitment and builds shoulder strength. i can't completely describe butterfly to you as it should feel because 1) i don't know it perfectly yet and 2) you need to feel somethings for yourself
there are things i could type over the internet, like drills, to help you with your fly but unless someone was there to tell you you were doing it right or wrong it wouldn't be much help. in the long run keep the arms long and feel smooth. not too much undulation but make sure its there. fast turns!!! if you slow down your stroke falls apart. don't underwater kick unless you know how it'll affect your race, start with a decent number of dolphin kicks at the beginning of the race and adjust as your body needs oxygen. breathe! every other or every other two your body need the oxygen for a race like that.
for training like i said the most you can do is increase the time in the pool. but to improve what you already do, make sure you get full reaches on your arms without disturbing your stroke. swim lots of endurance freestyle to familiarize yourself with the discomfort of a hard race. get every chance to do fly when your coach offers your group "stroke". talk to your coach about your problem too, no one knows better than him/her cause i can't really offer good advice over the internet w/o seeing your fly and the improvements you make over time.
get some abs in and develops shoulder back and tricep muscles. work hard and keep up the good work. keep committed and especially with butterfly know the difference between discomfort and pain, because that will change how you do and how much you can do of fly
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Hi Stefanie,
This report is focusing on a huge and complicated issue that impacts most schools. I'm glad your group chose to focus on this topic and that you decided to do some primary research to gather information.
This portion of the project is doing two things: providing some historical perspective on race integration in public schools in the US and offering empirical research you gathered through a survey.
Each portion of the page, however, needs to be fleshed out in greater depth. For the historical part, the text only touches on the Brown v. Board of Ed. decision in 1954 and speculates about race in schools in 2009, without too many sources to back it up or any mention of the 45 years of intervening history. This statement, “In 1954, most of the teachers were Caucasian,” is not entirely true. This may be true in white schools, but in black schools, teachers were of different races. You need a source to corroborate this, in any case.
The primary research you conducted piqued my interest as a reader: “I have created a survey on race in education, to figure out students opinions on this topic. After getting all the surveys back, the answers I received were pretty much exactly what I figured them to be.” I wonder if you might add the survey questions in here and unpack what you speculated the answers would be and why you though they would be that way.
I found these two sentences contradictory and confusing: “Personally, race will always be an issue in schools. But the real question is will it ever not be?” The whole third paragraph, for that matter, could use more information. Again, why was there racial tension? Where are you getting this information from?
Again, the topic you have chosen is important and the breadth of what your are trying to accomplish cannot be done well in five paragraphs. I also think it might behoove your text to bring in some additional sources, See You When We Get There might be a good to look at for starters.
Best,
Steve Halle
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