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Everyone on my swim team groans when we have a fly set (as do I) but for some reason once you get good enough at it, a 50 fly is probably the most fun event there is to swim!
Not just intensity, but unlike most cardio activities (running, biking, etc), swimming uses both push/pull movements on all muscle groups AND has weight/pressure (water) to it which are key components to building muscle since...that's how muscles work. You're always using your back and biceps during pulling (water) motions, and you're always using your chest and triceps when you are pushing water. Your legs are in on it too. Your quads and hamstrings are used in the kicking motion, and our calves and tibia dorsi calves are recruited to point and flex the feet respectively. Obviously our core is working as mentioned in the video. It's crazy efficient! Only downside is you'll need to eat a whole lot of calories!
Yiu just have to eat an average amount of proteins carbs and water, and that will help you with the two physical goals most people have: Buolding muscle and losing fat.
I learned Butterfly at age 57 and I'm 63 now. I can do the racing method, but sometimes I take it easier and more relaxed. We always want the best technique, but we don't need to perform Butterfly at a sprint pace. There are people who do long distance (10km) open water Butterfly. They use more momentum (gliding). We shouldn't limit ourselves just because we're not Olympians.
@@scottsdalevista Nice for the long distance. But I discovered that I need to tighten my full body in order to stay as flat as possible like a board with very small amplitude of movements. That helps a lot for performance but requires a lot of energy just to stay stiff. The opposite of the Shaw method.
I can confirm 100% what you said here. I experience all these sensations and thoughts. I've got the same insights. And I spent nearly 40 years thinking butterfly wasn't for me. Now I'm mad about butterfly.
I swim butterfly long distance for fitness. I swim 2 k butterfly non stop at medium pace, sometimes in training, and you enter a trance like state where you feel like you are almost a dolphin.I do butterfly because it feels the best, is the most challenging, and gets the lats and shoulders thick and my core is getting super strong too. I used to have back pain before butterfly, no more.
Thanks for the great video, I was particularly impressed by the graphical interpretation of the human physiology when swimming / great to see the different muscle groups distinguished by Color, function & timing 👍
I remember when I was doing my coaching courses after swimming for years. 200 fly was my event and when I was told by the mentor that he made some poor kid to do 3 k of fly to prove a point I thought he was mad. Tried it the session after and realised it was horrible till after 400 m and then you just sort of carry yourself through. I will always love fly with all my heart
Once you get into it you can go forever. You can't do 3k as fast as freestyle but 3 k butterfly is more tiring and I feel my rib cage literally growing.
It is so true that learning the correct technique is good for your mental health! I'm 60 and decided about a year ago to learn to do butterfly correctly. It has been such a fun challenge. I studied lots of youtube videos and bullt a list of things I needed to focus on. It took some time to get it to all come together but I kept getting better and it became easier and easier. I got to a stage when occasionally I knew I nailed it perfectly but I wasn't consistent. That came with practice and now I doing it nearly perfectly every time.
I 💖 'fly. I learned it literally at Arnold Schwarzenegger's gym in Austria when I was just 11 years old. (Before that my home summer swim team in Delaware had me competing breast- & backstroke.) When I came back home I became the summer "womens" 'fly champ and anchored the medley, pinch hitting free. Yes, I was 12. 12-16 also choreographed and ran the annual summer water ballet. Now I'm almost 60 and overweight but happy to be back to the pool here north of Baltimore. I do medleys just for fun/cardio, tire out fast, my flips are totes shot to hell, but I still have good form!
I find that focusing in moving forward helps your balance, makes u faster and reduces injury. If you u do the opposite of this (focusing on pushes up to take a breath) you will lose balance, sink too deep, slow down and raise your head/shoulders too high. At the end of the day you should feel kinda flat and very loose, making sure to maintain a fast rhythm.
Thanks to your previous advices, I managed to swimm butterfly with much less breathing problems since I kept the air during three strokes. Not only have I a better buoyancy, but I do not need to get my head out to breathe and can concentrate on the movements and keep my body horizontal.
you are a lovely and very professional coach. I just improved my freestyle by watching your video, much faster and easy. Now I guess I have a new goal to pursue -- butterfly!
I was fat as fuck, 120kg, got a little thinner (102kg) and started swimming less than 5 months ago. Since then I've lost almost 30kg and for the last 3 weeks i've been practising butterfly swimming, last day I did a 25m pool in 26seconds which I think its awesome, Im still trying to get a good technique but I'm so happy I found swimming
With every single of your vides I learn something new. Todays gem 4:20 is the center of bouyancy beeing different from the center of gravitation. 🐟⚖🐠🏊🌊
Up to 150 meter without stopping and doing 5 to 10 50 meter sets each Butterfly workout at age 53 and it has totally reshaped my body from 6'1 245 to 175. Another added plus swimming has totally put in remission my battle with borderline Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, anxiety, and depression....Swim Fast!!!
Out of the 6 years I did swimming when I was a kid, I never likes butterfly and I could only do a 50. My first time in an event for butterfly I did against my will because my coaches signed me up for it and I almost got disqualified because I swam the first 25 underwater to save energy. They let me have the win because i didnt know it was a rule back then.
Oh that gets me so juiced up! Swimming for the last 62 years of my life 99.9% crawl,Always making minute corrections. Couldn’t live without it. Butterfly, gets me so jazzed!
Freestyle feels boring when u learn how to do butterfly properly and for long distances. Butterfly is tough but that's why it feels so good when u are able to improve on it
Well, on an 'okay, if you swim the fly, I will try your side stroke', I swan the fly for the first time in probably 50 years. Loved it when I was younger because it was a superb power stroke, and I had power to spare. Can barely get my arms up out of the water now. Made 6 lengths of the 25 yard pool. Yup, it burns a lot of energy, and makes the muscles sore. Tried again on day 2, and had trouble getting my arms to clear on the recover. Going to be part of my daily swim now.... I really have a lot of ab/core work to do.... Side note Raul, did you notice that there were 2 distinct styles of breast stroke at the Olympics? One was more a rapid beat/stroke count, and the other was a longer glide stroke. A lap pal, whose stroke is the breast stroke pointed it out to me, and I went home to watch the US qualifying IM for women. More of a difference with the women than with the men...
Well, part 2.... Been getting a couple of laps in per day now, and have the timing back some what. My lap pal/coach wanted me to do a skulling drill. He is only 63... He commented that this is how it is done. So, I came home and watched a bunch of butterfly videos, and of course saw a bunch of different arm pull variations, but no one really talked about your arm pull path shall we call it. Found one with Michael Phelps from 2008 and his hands entered the water fairly wide, like maybe a little wider than his shoulders. Saw one European champion who entered with hands closer to the center line and actually sculled out a bit. Saw several others who whose hands entered close to center line and would pull out slightly , pull in closer to the body at mid point, then out wider at the finish, kind of like an hour glass. Seem to be many on freestyle, but kind of lacking on butterfly.
What I "came up" with is that sometimes I am fighting with the water when swimming butterfly and get exhausted easily even though I have been swimming it for some time.Then I kinda reflect and ty to feel the flow of the water and align with it. And after that reflection points I have swum the smoothest butterflies
If you wanna watch a video that will get your stoked about swimming this is the 1 that you wanna watch!! Even though I don't do any butterfly stroke the same examples you pointed out in this video can be said for the reverse dolphin kick. I love to swim, I do it everyday for at least an hour if not more. I want to learn butterfly its just I like to breath and I'm afraid of sucking in water if my Rhythm and flow are off. Fear is the mind killer I'm just showing the world of what a big old puss puss I am. Who needs to breathe?😀
I like to swim 1km of non-stop butterfly, but I do have a clear gliding phase, otherwise it would be to exhausting. I will try to reduce it somewhat next time :)
All of them are too difficult for me now except for breast stroke (aged 44). I have lower back issues no matter what I do (and that's not an "aging" thing because its been that way since my teens) so back stroke doesn't end very well. As for front crawl and butterfly I ĵust find my arms are flailing everywhere. Breast stroke just seems a lot easier But the flip side is am I really doing any good from breast stroke? I mean don't get me wrong 30 mins of breast stroke is still quite tiring so it must be doing something I'm thinking of signing up to a gym and want to work on my toning my thighs, stomach, and chest so heard swimming is the best for doing all that at once. I just don't know if breast stroke is working my stomach and chest that's all (it's defo working my legs and arms)
I have been wanting to swim butterfly for years and managed it once..my breast stroke technique I can see is slowly evolving to look more like butterfly. I can do some funky breast stroke swimming. I will keep working on it and start doing some of those shoulder exercises. Good retirement hobby😅🎉
Interesting. I've always laughed at butterfly swimming for being the only type of swimming that is absolutely pointless. It is not the fastest, it is not energy efficient. In fact, the opposite.
I mean, it looks so wild, that even if I was remotely good at swimming in any capacity, I still can't see myself coordinating my body like that. The other day I tried doing jumping jacks and still got them wrongly sinked up.
Raul, a question for you.... So, with freestyle, and a 6 beat kick, the #1 kick is the power kick, or as Gary Hall Sr. says, the 'pulse' kick, with the 2 and 3 kick not being nearly as strong. I had thought that with the fly, the 1 kick was the strong one, and the 2 kick was weaker. Not sure any more. I figured the #1 was strongest because you were throwing your whole body into it with the arm recovery, and #2 was weaker because it is coming from mid chest down to toes.... Comments?
I did ask Gary Hall Sr. about the fly kick, and which is the more powerful. He said that it varies from swimmer to swimmer. Some kick stronger on the first kick, and some kick stronger on the breathing kick. For sure, the breathing kick every swimmer I have watched will use higher amplitude on that kick. Their heels generally come up out of the water. What I haven't been able to figure out is why for some swimmers, dolphin kicks on their back are stronger than dolphin kicks on their tummy. @@derek524
Butterfly has always been the most hated in my routine ever since I was a kid. Now that with shoulder being injured and dislocated playing dodgeball I do miss doing butterfly. Still able to do it but after awhile it hurt a lot.
I swim in open sea, whenever I use my legs, no matter what style. I tent to slow down, only speed and endurance boost us when I cross my legs so it doesn't slow me aerodynamically. So does this video apply to that?
Look at your technique, if your ankle is stiff people tend to bend at the knee which creates a lot of drag resulting in slowing you down. When people cross their leg the legs sink, the reason why your leg isn’t sinking and creating a hydrodynamic drag might be because your wearing those full body suit that triathlon ppl where which makes the body float including the feet.
Yea.....i wish I could butterfly. I am too fat for the fly and lack the upperbody strength. I have started my weight loss journey, and I hope to butterfly someday.
I notice that your animation shows no movement of the head while breathing, I thought tat you should extend the front of your neck to breath thereby keeping a more horizontal posture, what am I missing? Thanks
3:20 slo mo 🤔 you should be able to do it so I see you should synchronize beginning of the recovery with kick up then the beginning of the pull kick up and arms forward kick down arms backwards kick down
Practise with fins to build up an endurance and after few weeks you can get there. Your legs use so all of your energy. Trust me just build it up and eventually you will get there
When you are racing the one hundred becomes so much easier to swim because of the raised adrenaline but, the best way to go for it would be to start swimming 50’s of fly a little slower than your 50 time. Now when you are doing this make sure you are doing lots of them and also focus on what Robert said as well
@@Majtro thank you Robert, every workout I do the "candle" exercise - vertically in the water, with dolphin legs, the arms are crossed on the chest. three minutes each (based on ~100 meters butterfly). Good work for legs and core muscles.
03:21 No gliding in Butterfly? WRONG! If you are unable to glide in Butterfly, you simply have the wrong technique. That’s all! To test yourself, successively lower the stroke frequency down. Me, I can swim Fly with a stroke time of 2,70 seconds. At such a low frequency, there MUST be gliding. And once you realize and master this, you get to a better technique.
