How can I become faster in butterfly?
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Work on your timing. Most fly strokes can be tweaked to improve on timing. Don't forget to glide in your stroke, even if it is for a short period. Work on streamlining your body so that you are hydrodynamic.\nOnce your stroke if proficient, work on the transitional parts of your stroke, your start, turns, coming off the wall, and your finishes. These parts of your swim will trim the most time off your swim times.
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bUTTERFLY IS MY SPECIALTY\n50 m. - 29.99\n100m. - 1:08.69 \n200 m. - 2:32.59\n *im 12 years old
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For speed, do calf raises. All you need to do is stand on stairs with your heels dangling off the edge. Do 3 sets, starting at 25 a set and working your way to 50. This will also improve your quickness and jumping. \n\nFor balance, try doing squats and situps. Situps will improve your core strength and help stabilize you.\n\nFor hand eye coordination practice playing catch.\n\nAnother fun way to do all of these at once is to play tennis. Even without a partner, hitting against a wall will improve all three areas.\n\nGood luck.
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here are some suggestions that i have found improved my training, i have rated them in terms of the regularity you should train them on a scale of 1-10\n\n9- run sprints\n this is the only really proven way to increase the ballance of your fast twitch muscle fibers\n\n10- get a training partner to push you backwards and kick a paddle while skipping backwards\n practice running backwards, then they place the paddle in front of you for a split second\n -(this will improve your reflexes)\n\n (take up taekwondo training for speed in your kicks\n watch how fast the olympians are\n if they kick you once it is over- (this is not much use unless you are willing to train harder and faster then anyone else and with a competant partner))\n(take up taichi chuan\n take up a chi gong practice\n for augumenting the taekwondo training\n the relaxation and weight transferrance that are used here are very useful in more explosive arts)\n\n10- perfect your technique- smooth perfect technique= fast and powerful motion\n\n10- develop your flexibility\n if you are kicking to the head you must be able to do the splits or the tightness of your legs will slow the kick\n do not be afriad of pushing your stretchs too far, so long as you warm up adaquately they will always take a few more inches\n if you are really going to be pushing your stretches, rub sandlewood oil into the muscles that give you problems and take some ginko first\n\n keep some deep-heat handy in case you hurt yourself\n\n10- if you are kicking to the body you must be able to stretch far futher than head height\n\n5- practice the movement of the kick slowly in the air in a controlled movement with weights  on your legs\n \n3- practice the movement of the kick in an explosive manner with leaping movement with weights in repetitions of say twenty\n(this is called polymetrics and rocks)\n -(do not over train with weights, do not aim for power if you want speed)\n\ndrop your bum and center an inch or so when performing combinations of kicks, this gives you spring from the bottom leg and increases power as well as shortening the reaction time between leg switches\nalways kick from the bum and in the shortest possible line, let the center of your body always be the area about two inches bellow the belly button\n do not do jumping kicks, if you do jumping kicks do not come off the ground\n a kicking artist does not rise up in the air but rather dances across the ground in a lowered stance\n\n6-work on the combinations\n use a sidekick as a jab, get a ladder and kick the rungs, flicking the leg\n all kicks that require a twist of the torso should be trained with a second kick that either flicks it back or fully rotates it\n eg, turning kick, back kick combo\n eg- hook kick- front snap\n-turning kicks should be executed like a front snap\n with no wasted energy, or travel and a precise focus\n- use lowered kicks most as they have the shortest distance\n backicks and front snaps to the groin and stomach\n \n7- train with a tennis ball hung up by string, tapping away with one leg then switching, light fast controlled taps\n\n 7- train with a punching bag for explosive combos, gain power from your reaction speed, so always snap the kicks and punches back as fast as possible\n power= speed/ time\n so reduce the impact time as much as possible\n - this reflect action is a key to speed\n\n- work on your ballance, try to find high up and thin to stand on- something like a farm gate or wooden bar to train your kick combos on\n pay attention to your body, weight transferrences, and reflex actions\n\n\n every time you train with a partner, or train in a class, or train your techniques, unless you have decided that you will train slowly for control, train as fast and as hard as you possibly can
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There are several workouts you can do to gain speed. There are some that are done in the track and others that are done in the weight room. On the track is do technique training (stuff done at slow speeds). Work on your stride and timing. Pushing off with your back leg, arms 90 deg. front to back not across the body. Do these to warm-up. Then run using good technique at 80% of max for 50meters, then jog 50mtrs, then sprint again at 80 for 50meters. To complete two laps. Then change to 30m at 90% 1 lap then 20 meters 100% one lap. Do this until you can increase the length to 200 meters at 80% then jog. In the weight room do SQUATS! Or explosive but controlled lifts like the Power Clean, Power Snatch (hehehehe), Dead Lift, and Bench Press. Good luck with the speed gains!!
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There are 3 things that you can do to run faster: You can increase your leg turnover rate.\nYou can increase your stride length.\nYou can increase your overall strength so you can maintain a faster turnover and longer stride for a longer time. That is, you run faster by not slowing down as much.\n\nHere are some things to try to affect one or more of these things.\n\n1.Work on your (running) strength. You should do interval workouts, 100 hard run (not sprint) followed by 100 walk/jog, then repeat. Start with 4 and work up to 10-12 repeats as you get stronger. For some workouts, do the same thing with 200s and occasionally a 400. \n\n2. Work on your upper body strength with weights. Do not go heavy, go light. You want to do a lot of quick reps rather than a few, slow, reps with heavy weights.\n\n3. Run some hills. If you can find a long, gradual hill, do some of your 100 repeats uphill. It will increase your knee lift and leg strength. As an alternative, run steps. Hills are better because running steps, you chop down your stride length to fit the steps.\n\n4. Learn to run “Fast, but relaxed”. Jog 20m, gradually accelerate to full speed over 20m, then slow back down to a jog over 20 m. Jog, then repeat. When you do this, concentrate on your form and staying relaxed through the whole 60m.\n\n5. There a some running related exercises that you can do. Skip like a little kid. Do repeat 50s. First skip for distance, making each stride as long as possible, then skip for height, working on getting your knee up and getting as much air as possible.\n\nTo prevent soreness, stretch out completely after your workout. You want to stay as flexible as possible. You don’t want to have one set of muscles working against another set of muscles.  A good book is Bob Anderson's  “Stretching” (See link below) you can probably find it at your local library, it’s a classic. It has pages of stretches. You may also be sore because you are running to tight and your muscles are fighting each other. If you are clenching your teeth and grimacing, you are too tight.
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Practice makes perfect. That's all you can do...just keep doing that and eventually you will get faster and faster.
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Making yourself faster is tough. The best thing to do is to concentrate on quickness rather then long distances, build up your resperatory system so that you can move quicker. Try doing "turn" drills and when you do run sprints, which you will need to do, work on extending your stride, not matter how short or tall if you can use every inch of your leg length and move your legs faster, that will make you a faster runner
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I'm going to put an answer on here, just so I don't get in trouble for it not being an answer.\n\nContinue running, I imagine the more you run, the faster you will get.\n\nOk, now what I really wanted to say:\nWow, 16 minutes is fast!  I just ran a 5K yesterday, and it took me just under 30 minutes.  Obviously, I'm not a serious runner, though.  Actually, I just recently started over the last couple months.  But 16 minutes is really good!\n\nI found a couple sites that are talking about training to run faster:\nhttp://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Run-Faster&id=106349\nhttp://www.trifuel.com/triathlon/run/how-to-train-smarter-and-run-faster-000144.php\nhttp://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/speed.htm\n\nHope they help.\nGood luck on your run!  :)
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daily stretching, light weight workout, daily runing\nlay off the junk food, get plenty of sleep, find someone to take some pitches from you. start slow 25 or so build up your endurance, work on location of pitches and variance of speed.
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Make sure to wear a helmet and shoes.\n\nStart at a slow speed. You will pick up speed as you go. Pull up on the handle bars and at the same time do a strong pedal. Be careful not to pull over.  Make sure you are standing up. Any fat tire (mountain bike type) would do. The higher the handle bars the easier. Once up, try not to pedal too fast, just fast enough to keep the front end up. The more you practice, the further you can go. Try to compete against your friends.
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Practice, practice, practice. Run every day. Do leg work outs as well, and also run long distances to help build up your leg muscles. Work out with a friend; you'll push yourself harder if you're competing. You could also find someone that can is faster than you and have him/her work out with you and push you to work harder.
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Don't listen to these idiots. If they answer a question in the swimming catagory, and don't know anything about swimming, forget them. Of course, while I'm answering, someone will give you a serious answer, and be offended that I called them and idiot. \n\nThe butterfly is rough. Basically you have to get some pool time. No real way to learn it without actually getting in the water.\n\nIt'd be better if you got someone who can do it to help you, but, you've seen the butterfly done, just do what you've seen. You gotta push hard enough to bring half your body out of the water, so you can swing your arms around in front of you. It hurts at first, and your chest is gonna ache, and you're gonna think you're having a heart attack, but just do it until you're worn out, then try again the next day. don't forget you're doing a dolphin kick, keep your legs together and move them in a fluid motion. It's not supposed to look like you're humping the water... more like doing the worm in break-dancing. When your upper body comes out of the water, it's like a wave traveling through your body from head to toe. \n\nI hope you can handle pain! Good Luck.
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1. Lose unnecessary weight.\n\n2. make your self more aerodynamic as possible when u run.\n\n3. Increase your leg strength, arm flex muscles.
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A quick way to go faster is to add aero bars, you're more aerodynamic and will be faster.\nOther ways:\nlighten up your bike or yourself, pedal in circles, 85-90 rpm cadence.\nThe best way to get fast is to ride fast.  This takes time, but if you break it onto intervals you can ride for a minute or two, rest for the same amount of time, then ride fast again.  Eventually you'll be able to sustain higher speeds for longer durations.  You can do this twice a week and do a longer slower ride once a week for endurance.
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Pace yourself. Like the name says, use up every piece of time you have for each lap. Don't rush and keep a good pace.
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Time your entry into your spin.....Cross on one, step into it on two, then start spinning on three.......keep in mind you have to curve your wind up entering into your spin....\nWinding up your arms on the back inside edge will get you into your spin quicker.....\n\nThe stronger the pivot into your spin..........will help you gain the speed your looking for....\n\nGreat question..\nGood Luck to you!!