5 Things All Swimmers And Triathletes Can Learn From Katie Ledecky’s Freestyle
[three_fourth_last]Katie Ledecky smashed the women’s 400m freestyle world record last week in a time of 3:58.86. Here’s our top 5 freestyle technique takeaways from the swim. 1. Don’t Hang Around (While Breathing) This image shows Ledecky after taking a breath. She’s gets her breath quickly and returns her face back down right away. Her lead […]
How to Stop Pulling Across Your Body In Freestyle
It is one of the most common mistakes in freestyle where a swimmer pulls across their body and is crossing over their midline with their hand and arm. There are two main causes of crossing over the body; the first one is keeping your arm straight in your pull through rather than bending your elbow […]
How to Swim Higher in Freestyle
If you have ever been told by a coach to get your hips up what you might have done is bent at the hips and stuck your bum up higher in the water; therefore your bum is higher but your legs are dragging. What that does it creates more resistance and more drag than what […]
Why Swimmers Have A Bad Training Session
There’s usually three reasons why your training times are off if you’re not swimming well in training. Â And that is either you are sick, fatigued or inflexible. Â And I just want to focus on the third one for the moment: Â the inflexibility. Â Now it’s usually one of the main reasons why swimmers’ times are off […]
The Distance Trap
Don’t get caught in the distance trap where you’re more focused on how far you do in a training session than what you do in a training session. Unless you are training for the English Channel, an ironman or a long distance event, then you are better off focusing on what you do in a training session […]
The First Step To Improving Your Technique
Every time a swimmer comes to us for stroke correction, the first thing we look at is body position. There are a number of drills in the Mastering Freestyle program focus on that. 00:10 – How to Improve Your Technique 01:22 – Good Technique Starts With Good Position 01:28 – Athletes Are Like Light Switches […]
