Four Tips to be Fast at the End of a Fly Race
Four Tips to be Fast at the End of a Fly Race
By Russell Mark, USA Swimming National Team High Performance Consultant
How can the best 200 fly swimmers finish the race so well? Are they just less tired than everyone else at the end of a race?
Good race strategy and management certainly plays a factor, but I believe that technical adjustments can also be made at the end of a fly race to help achieve the optimal finish.
For the most part, swimming fly is about having good distance per cycle. But your muscles will naturally generate far less force and hold less water on your 100th stroke versus your first stroke, so your speed will inevitably decrease as a race progresses…
…Unless! You make an adjustment to your stroke to allow your tempo to increase.
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Good race strategy and management certainly plays a factor, but I believe that technical adjustments can also be made at the end of a fly race to help achieve the optimal finish.
For the most part, swimming fly is about having good distance per cycle. But your muscles will naturally generate far less force and hold less water on your 100th stroke versus your first stroke, so your speed will inevitably decrease as a race progresses…
…Unless! You make an adjustment to your stroke to allow your tempo to increase.
Read more:
