200 breaststroke and 100 butterfly help?

I am a 14 year old boy. My 50 breast time is a 31.18. What should my 200 breast time be around? What should my technique be (because i am more of a sprinter)? Any tips on gliding? Also i have to swim 100 butterfly. My 50 fly time is a 34.30 (i know it sucks). What should my 100 fly time be around? What should my technique be? Thanks for all of the help!|||It is far too difficult to extrapolate your 200 time from a 50 time.





Another reply gave you incredible WRONG information on how to swim a 200. The guide to all of your races should be that at no point in your race should you be going faster than you can go for the remainder of the race.





If you think about that, that means that in a 500 you don't start off with your lifetime best 50 because you can't hold that time for the remainder of the race. How about a 100 fly? Well, if you sprint the first 25 since you can't hold that time for the remainder of the race so you must start of slow. Then as the race gets shorter and shorter, you go faster and faster because you can hold that speed for a lesser and lesser distance. That means that your third 50 on a 200 breast IS NOT the fastest, but it is almost as fast as your last 50 of a 200. Also, your first 50 is the slowest.





The same is true for a100 fly. Your first 25 is the slowest and your last 25 is the fastest. You actually need to make the first 25 of your 100 fly (or 50 in your 200 breast) feel so slow that if you went any slower, you'd stop. BUT, if you don't speed up as you go, your swim will be really slow.





On your fly, you must also start to breathe immediately after the breakout from your start. DO NOT hold your breath until the end of your race. YOU MUST START TO BREATHE IMMEDIATELY.|||Hmm, you are obviously a breaststroker because that's pretty fast for 14. How I swim the 200 breast goes like this:





1st 50- long smooth strokes


2nd 50- faster, more efficient strokes; build all the way up to a sprint


3rd 50- strong powerful strokes; all out fast (IMPORTANT! dont wait for the last 50 to go fast! swim


the 3rd 50 like it's the last one!)


4th 50- just give it all you have left! (and it shouldn't be much) your legs should be dead right now (don't focus on gliding so much, just finish the race!)





You should be holding around 35s if you 50 is a 31, so your final time should be about 2:33. (:





And the 100 fly? Umm, i'm pretty much the worst butterflyer on thhis planet, so I don't think you need my advice. Haha the 100 and 200 fly is pretty much hell for me.





Hope this helps! :D