Three Changes For A Faster Ironman Swim
See how you can use the 5 Core Principles Of Fast Freestyle to analyze your stroke and develop a roadmap for improving your swimming. In this episode of Feedback Friday, I look at a triathlete training for a full distance IM race in October. Transcription: You can do the YMCA drill that we’ve got in […]
Do THIS One Thing In Single Arm Drill (BIG DIFFERENCE)
When you reach forwards and rotate BEFORE your catch in single arm drill, your stroke timing and cross-connection in your hips and torso improves. It can help to think of this as being ‘patient’ with the catch, rather than rushing into it. Transcription: In today’s video, we’re looking at why you should always do this […]
Rotate Your Hips Before Applying Power
All the very best swimmers initiate their hip rotation before applying power in the pull. Remember the catch is not the power phase, use this as the ‘setup’ phase to then apply power once your hand and forearm are angled to press back against the water. In tomorrow’s video, we’ll show you why this timing […]
How To Close The Gap Between Reality vs Perception
What you THINK you do compared to what you ACTUALLY do is often very different. In this video, I’ll show you three of the most common aspects of freestyle that you think you might be doing differently. Transcription: With swimmers that do cross the center line, more times than not, they have to make it […]
Coordinate Your CATCH and KICK
Developing your rhythm and timing helps you with your cross-connection through the body (see last week’s video for more on this). One aspect of this is your catch and down kick… Most top-level swimmers coordinate their catch and down kick on the same side of their body as you’ll see in this video featuring Mack […]
Josh Amberger & The ‘Serape Effect’
The Serape Effect is a cross-body connection that stretches some of the upper body muscles to their greatest length in order to create a snap-back effect. When this tension is released from these muscles they shorten for the completion of the movement, and a greater velocity is applied than had the muscles performed from a […]
