Butterfly #-#-#
The butterfly #-#-# drill is used to help keep your rhythm, and to improve your ability to keep your arms straight. It improves rhythm by allowing swimmers to maintain the essence of the butterfly stroke while not losing your endurance so you can swim longer distances.
Steps:
Breathing should be either to the side (like freestyle) or a regular butterfly breath (lift head above water while looking straight down.)
This drill should be practiced often to maintain a good rhythm.
Steps:
- Push off wall in streamline.
- Keep one arm in streamline, then do a butterfly stroke "#" of times (# = any number you choose, usually around 3 or 4) with that arm.
- After you finish your last stroke, keep that arm in the streamline, and swim "#" butterfly strokes with the other arm.
- After you finish, swim "#" butterfly strokes with both arms.
Breathing should be either to the side (like freestyle) or a regular butterfly breath (lift head above water while looking straight down.)
This drill should be practiced often to maintain a good rhythm.
Works Consulted
Mills, Glenn. "Butterfly - 3-3-3." GoSwim! Web. 7 Oct. 2014.