How Katie Ledecky Changes Her Kick For Maximum Efficiency (And How You Can Too)
Katie Ledecky is one of my favorite long-distance swimmers to watch. Her ability to drive from her hips and change her kick from 2-beat to 4-beat or 6-beat depending on the race is amazing. This is one of the more challenging things to develop in your stroke which is why it’s part of the final […]
How A Foam Roller Can Improve Your Technique
We meet hundreds of triathletes and swimmers during our freestyle clinics. A common trait the fastest of them share is great flexibility through the shoulders, hip flexors and ankles. It’s very obvious in underwater filming when an athlete is tight in these areas as it causes errors in their stroke. Tights shoulders, back and lats = Dropped elbow during […]
Stroke Count and Distance Per Stroke
As we lead in the competitions, one of the things we focus on is stroke count and distance per stroke. How We Use It Training We’ll typically swim an easy and relaxed 50m, counting how many strokes we take for the lap. Then we’ll go a set of 10-20 100’s with 20 seconds rest in between. What […]
[How to Fix] Trying Harder But Not Swimming Faster
This week I’ve got a challenge for you. I want to challenge you to try what I’m about to talk about. To see if you can get an increase in speed by trying this one thing. In the next few weeks we’re releasing the Effortless Freestyle DVD which we’ve been working on for the last couple of […]
The Pointy End of the Field
The Good Thing About Being Slower If you are a swimmer who is may not be as fast as you’d like to be then the good thing is that you have a lot more room for improvement. Swimmers at the pointy end of the field find it harder to improve because the improvement is much […]
The Shotgun Approach to Training
If you look at what the top swimmers do in their training, they focus their training for one event in particular. They won’t use the shotgun approach where they target the 1500 freestyle, the 100 butterfly and the 400 medley all at once. They target their training towards one event. If you’re racing a number […]
