Training & Technique
4 exercises to strengthen your ankles
Find out why you need to strengthen your ankles and how to do it. A swimmer’s ankles are extremely important for a very simple reason: they connect your legs to …
Training & Technique
Dive and tumble turn: 2 exercises to improve your push-off
Let’s see why and, above all, how to improve your push-off when diving in and tumble-turning. As we all know, there are four different swim strokes, but over the last …
Training & Technique
It is just a matter of… LEGS!
Today we will be looking at how to use your legs and we will also be suggesting some specific training exercises. For adult men in particular, legs can often become …
Training & Technique
CrossFit: pros and cons for swimming
Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of CrossFit as supplementary training for swimming. Today we’re going to talk about a rather recent innovation in sports training that …
Training & Technique
What effect does lack of sleep have on performance?
Rest is a vital part of performance and a real key to achieving your goals. Over the last few years it has become increasingly obvious that the quality of an …
Training & Technique
The Backstroke: How to swim “belly upwards”
Level: beginner Unlike the other three competitive swim strokes, the backstroke is the only one swum on your back for the entire race. This means that a good sense of …
Training & Technique
Is there any point in listening to music before you dive into the pool?
We have often seen Chad Le Clos, Katinka Hosszú and lots of the world’s best swimmers listening to music before they climb onto the starting blocks. So how can music …
Training & Technique
How to develop an efficient freestyle leg kick
Developing an efficient freestyle leg kick can be broken down into various elements. In this article, we will try and focus on each of them, explaining how to train them …
Training & Technique
Round off your swimming training with some Pilates!
Today we will be explaining how and why to use Pilates out of the pool to round off your training. The Pilates method is a training system devised by Joseph …
Training & Technique
4 group drills to be tried out with your teammates
Although swimming is basically an individual sport, today we will show that you can also train in a group in the pool! Let’s take a look at some training drills …