Strength Exercises For Swimming I often get asked about what strength exercises for swimming – either to avoid injury or to get faster and stronger. Strength training of any sort can be incredibly useful – but it is only a tool. You can do all the strength...
Rotation is one of the really important parts of swimming – and also quite misunderstood! Rotating the body (rather than swimming flat on your front) has 4 useful benefits: 1) Increased reach (forward and backwards) 2) Reduced frontal profile (so less...
Last week we looked at how posture really can affect body position, control and the ease at which you swim. This week we just focus on one of those elements – where your optimal head position is. There are four things that head position will affect in your...
Good body positioning is truly important to swimming because of how alien water is to move through for us as humans. Strong swim posture is key to getting this right. Growing up – and at various points in your life – it’s likely you have been told to...
Negative split. Catch. CSS training. Threshold. Feel of the water. Functional training. These are all terms bandied around by athletes, coaches and magazines alike. Things we all see and hear weekly or even daily. But do YOU actually know what these words or terms...
