Training & Technique
Swim With Your Head: Improve Your Freestyle Head Position
Proper freestyle head position is crucial to your overall freestyle technique. Good head position will help you swim quickly and efficiently. One of the most common mistakes in freestyle is …
Training & Technique
Top 10 Breaststroke Drills to Improve Your Swim
Did you know that a primitive form of breaststroke is believed to be the very first movement performed by a human being to move forward through the water? So, the …
Training & Technique
How to Use a Kickboard to Get Serious Results
One of swimming’s most recognizable flotation devices, the humble kickboard, evokes fond memories of learning how to swim. But, these simple yet effective training aids go way beyond being used …
Training & Technique
Start Serious Training With Swimming Hand Paddles
Extremely popular with both coaches and swimmers, hand paddles are a swimming accessory that belong in the bag of any swimmer looking to improve their training regime. Swimming hand paddles …
Training & Technique
How to Improve Your Backstroke: Tips and Drills
The backstroke is an exciting and unique event. All the elements of this swimming stroke are very different from other styles of swim. The start, underwater phase, turns, and the …
Training & Technique
How to Perfect Your Freestyle Hand Entry
Getting a stronger and more efficient freestyle is the goal of almost every swimmer. Who wouldn’t want to become even faster at swimming’s fastest stroke? When freestyle swimming, it’s all …
Training & Technique
Starting Block Drills and Pointers for Faster Turns
Along with a proper warm-up routine and a good training program, the start and turn are vital for any swimmer, whatever their standard. That is why we have decided to …
Training & Technique
Do You Need Breaststroke Fins for Training?
When it comes to implementing swim fins into your training regimen, front crawl or backstroke might seem like an obvious choice. The breaststroke is probably not one of the first …
Training & Technique
3 tips for resuming training after the summer break
3 invaluable tips about the best way to resume training. According to a famous Italian song from the 1980s “The summer is ending and another year has gone by…”, but …
Training & Technique
Making the most out of your time away from the pool
Distance sucks. And no, we’re not talking about training for the mile (although this does also suck…). We’re referring to the forced hiatus from swimming pools that many water lovers …
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