How To Do Breaststroke Kick
Breaststroke kick is important if you want to be a good breaststroker. There are a number of ways you can improve your kick in order to swim faster. They are: Strength training – A powerful kick requires strong legs. Squats are the best gym excercise you can do for breaststroke kick. Stretching – Improve flexibility ...
How To Pull With Power In Butterfly
Have you ever wondered why some people are fast butterfly swimmers and seem to cruise past others without breaking a sweat? It’s not because they’re exceptionally fit. It’s because they’ve got the technique right by developing their stroke with drills. This video is taken from the Effortless Butterfly ...
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7 Ways To Swim Faster This Year
Pick a race to target Without a goal or destination it’s difficult to be inspired at training. I’ve found that picking a race to train up for is 10x more motivating than swimming of the sake of keeping fit. It’s not that staying fit or getting fit isn’t a worthy goal, but the pressure of [...] ...
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How To Breathe In Freestyle Without Choking On Water
Last week I speaking to an Effortless Swimming client and he mentioned he was having trouble breathing in freestyle. It’s a common problem. The solution comes down to two things. Your stroke (swimming technique) and your breathing technique (ability to control your breathing). The breathing technique is rarely spoken about, ...
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How To Increase Lung Capacity With Swimming
If you’ve ever wondered why some swimmers could challenge a fish in a breath-holding competition, and others can’t hold their breath long enough to say the word ‘fish’, this might be the most important article you ever read. Imagine swimming at a faster pace for longer because you learned a simple exercise ...
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Three Steps To Better Freestyle
Here’s the first three steps you need to take to swim better freestyle. 1. Constant Kick – You don’t need to have a super kick to be a fast freestyler. In fact, the fastest freestyle girl I coach barely kicks at all. Kick is used for body position and balance more than propulsion in triathlons. [...] ...
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Mastering Freestyle Technique
Limited time only: Get 2 months FREE swim workouts The most popular course is the Mastering Freestyle program. If you are sick of hearing the same old tricks and you’re ready to completely revamp your freestyle so it’s easy to swim and you glide through the water like a hot knife through butter, this is [...] ...
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What Is Your Most Pressing Question About Swimming? (Plus Freestyle Breathing Tip)
As a swimming coach I’m always asked a lot of different questions about improving technique, increasing speed, learning the correct breathing method, etc. It got me wondering what the biggest challenges everyday swimmers are having. If there was one thing which if you could get right, you know your swimming would improve ...
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The Shortcut To Swimming Faster I Stole From Any Olympic Medallist
There is one swimming drill which will dramatically improve your technique, power and feel for the water if you practice it prior to a race or competition. This drill easy to do and only takes a couple of minutes each session. In this article, I’m going to explain to you how best to perform it [...] ...
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Swimming Kick: How To Increase Your Kicking Power by 200%
As a coach of both elite and amateur swimmers, it is apparent that one of the biggest issues facing adult swimmers is the ability to generate power from their kick. There is a noticeable difference between those swimmers who were taught correctly as a kid or teenager, and those which have never been shown the [...] ...
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How To Pull With Power In Butterfly
Have you ever wondered why some people are fast butterfly swimmers and seem to cruise past others without breaking a sweat? It’s ...
How To Increase Lung Capacity With Swimming
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