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"I think that when we love something, it's something we always want to do. It's something we want to strive to be our best in, and swimming is that for me."
Every swimmer's 'why' is different, but we all love this sport. Why do you swim? pic.twitter.com/QFtSyR0ZKq
— USA Swimming (@USASwimming) January 27, 2021
Look at all those lovely faces!! 🙂
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Today was one for the books! So many great swims, best times, and 6 school records broken! pic.twitter.com/T15wcQq2BO
— Cy-Lakes Swimming (@swim_cylakes) January 31, 2021
Congrats folks!
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gainesville 2021 https://t.co/kcHpxBT8g3 pic.twitter.com/bx7YuL1qpu
— sirena rowe cervantes (@sirenarowe_) January 27, 2021
Emoji Game: Strong
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Dog birthdays are the best birthdays!
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This is what those 6 a.m. practices are for pic.twitter.com/aabDui1ntK
— Tennessee Swimming (@Vol_Swim) January 29, 2021
#Swim4TheBling
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Zoned in. pic.twitter.com/Zr36QMEKWy
— Ryan Murphy (@ryan_f_murphy) January 28, 2021
Are you ever afraid that someday the water just won’t let you out?
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My very first swim meet back in ‘08 was when I started dreaming about going to the Olympics. Today that dream became a reality. Zoom wasn’t the way I had anticipated my first Olympic Team nomination, but extremely special nonetheless. Thanks to @SwimmingCanada for the opportunity pic.twitter.com/lTQ394W3nj
— Maggie Mac Neil (@mags_swims26) January 22, 2021
A very 2021 tweet #ZOOMlympics
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Spidey Miley.
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They just grow up so fast.
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That 8 more 400 butterflies than I did this week.
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Different goals and sets for different cultures and minds.
8×400 fly = can earn you records and sixty-seven $€ digit/year.
If the equation works, why not.
Who among us hasn’t done this set? smh
I mean, great to say that you did it, but no way it was done fast or with good technique. It just teaches you to sink your hips
And yet, she’s the defending World Champion.
I’d never give an athlete this set, but the Hungarians seem to have figured out how to train 200 butterfliers, even with poor technique, with this approach.
World champion, yes, and that is impressive, but not beneficial to break into the 2:04 range. I would be shocked if Milak ever did a set like this, I highly doubt he ever did anything more than one or two repeats of 200 fly in practice. Doing like 15×200 flys and 400 flys are just old school training sets from the 80s that have been largely left behind.
We can’t really understand an athlete’s training program by having small sample sets as references. Some coaches give test sets, like Gregg Troy, who I have seen him giving his mid-D swimmers sets 20×200 flys on 1:30 LCM (broken up into 3 or 4 rounds), and that is after a kick-swim combined aerobic set. Just an example, I know it is not the scariest set out there. Switching up to go high volume can never hurt the swimmers.
200 butterfly on 1:30 is impossible unless I have fallen into a time warp 100 years in the future.
I don’t know. Mary T did some absurd butterfly sets. Put her in a tech suit, the current pools, give her an intro to dolphin kicks off the walls, and pay her as a pro, and her 80’s training and 2:05.96 from 1981 would be at least 2:02. I mean her records stood for like 20 years.
It’s like Bowman’s 10,000 free for time or the 30×1000 that Vendt did. It’s more about creating fearlessness and cultivating a willingness to hurt than training technique.
I understand and respect that, but even Bowman admitted that he never made Michael do more than a 200 fly in practice, and usually just repeats of 100s and 150s. Unlike freestyle, fly needs to be trained fast, or not at all. I’ve talked to elite butterfliers, fastest in the world, and they stressed this. Anyway I’m probably ranting too much about a simple Twitter post. Congrats to Kapas for completing the set!
I’m sorry did you just say 30 one thousands???
That’s like a 6 hour set. Absolutely crazy.
That’s gotta be like…6 hours of swimming.
Which makes some sense if you’re training for the 25k in open water.
Sets given only for “toughness” or “to build character” reflect a coach more interested in proving how big his/her balz are than actually helping a swimmer get better.
What 8*400 butterfly set. Lool.
If Ben Proud was born in Hungary, He would have retired at 12 years old.
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