Ryan Woodruff, North Carolina Aquatic Club
coachryan@ncacswim.org
Here's a fun way to do some IM swims. I call them "Lemon I.M.s" because you are squeezing the strokes together.
For instance, a 200 IM could look like this:
175 fly, 8 back, 8 breast, 8 freestyle (for simplicity's sake, we'll equate 8 yards to 1/3 of a pool length). The swimmer simply changes strokes rapidly mid-pool.
Or a 200 IM could look like this:
8 fly, 8 back, 8 breast, 175 freestyle.
You get the idea... "Squeeze" two or three strokes together into a 25 or a 50, and leave one stroke out to swim the majority of the distance. It provides some variety for the swimmers, and those mid-pool transitions are really something to watch!Labels: Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle, Ideas, IM, Just for Fun