Friday Fly Day Relays

Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA


We sometimes swim butterfly relays in order to get some quality butterfly swimming done without the need to one-arm drill or lose our rhythm in order to not smack arms in narrow lanes.  Recently, we did a little change-up on the relays that worked well.

• 3-4 swimmers per lane are on a relay team.
• We placed markers (in our case, orange hockey pucks) on the bottom of the pool 15m and 20m from the start end.
• Each swimmer swims 3 times.  The first time, the swimmer sprints fly to 15m mark, does an open turn on an imaginary wall at that point, and swims back.  Next swimmer does the same.
• The second time a swimmer goes, he goes to 20m and back.  The 3rd time to 25m and back.
• After the relay concludes, swim a bit easy, and do it again! Change up the distances, the order, the number of total swims, whatever you want!