Archive for 'Swimming drills'
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 you could easily practice [...]
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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. Your [...]
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Mastering Freestyle Technique
My 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 for you.
New Drills
In the program I introduce a series [...]
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What Is Your Most Pressing Question About Swimming? (Plus Freestyle Breathing Tip)
Posted on by Brenton.
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 dramatically, what [...]
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The Shortcut To Swimming Faster I Stole From Any Olympic Medallist
Posted on by Brenton.
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%
Posted on by Brenton.
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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Entry Drill and Single Arm Freestyle
Posted on by Brenton.
The two newest freestyle drills!
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Freestyle Swim Kick Technique – Vertical Kick Progression
Posted on by Brenton.
The past 4-6 months have been the endurance phase of our training program. We’ve been doing more miles in the pool and higher intensity work. One thing which occurred to me is the poor kicking technique and strength in most swimmers.
Sprinters must have a strong kick. To swim sub 30 for 50m freestyle it can [...]
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- What Is Your Most Pressing Question About Swimming? (Plus Freestyle Breathing Tip)
- Breathing in Freestyle: How To Stop Choking On Water
- Free Swimming Videos
- How to swim faster, easier and 'feel' the water by changing your thinking
- How to Swim Faster - The Little Known Secret Used by Successful Swimmers
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Stephen Harris: I've studied the kick of good swimmers but it does...
