Taking some breathing exercises for swimmers is the way to go if you experience breathing difficulties while swimming. Some swimmers, especially beginners, go out of breath easily and get exhausted, affecting their performance and concentration. Many swimmers often forget to work on their breathing technique, focusing on strokes and kicks alone. In swimming, breathing is …
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How to Improve Early Vertical Forearm With 5 Simple and Effective Drills
The need to improve early vertical forearm is unavoidable if you want to swim freestyle faster and conserve energy. Besides an improved freestyle kick, having a powerful and refined “arm work” contributes to your freestyle speed and overall performance. In the arm movement of a typical freestyle stroke, there are four phases – the catch, …
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Vertical Kicking for Swimmers: How to Improve Your Kicking Efficiency
One effective way to enhance your freestyle (flutter) kicking is by combining and creating quality time vertical kicking in your training. Perhaps due to ignorance or lack of know-how, many swimmers often neglect kicking, causing them to swim slower. So why do you need vertical kicking? Vertical kicking helps you build efficient kicks to generate …
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Drills for a Faster Freestyle Kick: 4 Useful Options to Combine With Your Training
It would be best if you considered taking some drills for a faster freestyle kick. Although kicking doesn’t provide most of the propulsion in swimming, it comes with several beneficial functions. It is a part of swimming that you must execute. It is important to understand that swimming freestyle faster is a combination of the …
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10 Effective Exercises to Improve Ankle Flexibility for Swimming
A practical approach to kick more efficiently is to improve ankle flexibility. A common attribute among fast swimmers (kickers) is their excellent ankle flexibility. Having flexible ankles is equivalent to being about to boost your swimming speed with your ankles. As a swimmer, flexible ankles are crucial as it allows you a wide range of …
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12 Freestyle Drills for a Faster Freestyle
There are several freestyle drills for a faster freestyle and easy development into a better freestyle swimmer. Although you get better as a swimmer while swimming regularly in pools, drills should never be neglected. Drills are essential in swimming and they help to improve your technique, movement, breathing, arm control, or kicking. If you want …
7 Simple and Effective Ways to Improve Distance per Stroke
Apart from recreation, every professional swimmer strives to improve distance per stroke (DPS) to keep them ahead of their rivals. If you are a beginner in swimming, your primary goal should be to become faster at swimming. As a professional swimmer, swimming for you goes beyond splashing water about and forcing yourself to the finish …
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How to Balance Pool Chemicals
Many things go into pool management, and knowing how to balance pool chemicals is one of them. When you consider the leftovers (e.g., body oils, dead skin, etc.) of humans in the water, you’ll realize there’s plenty to do. Pool filters or vacuum cleaners may take care of the physical characteristics of your pool water. …
8 Simple Tips to Improve Your Freestyle Stroke
A good technique is important in freestyle swimming; therefore, you should devote more time to improving freestyle stroke. The freestyle stroke is popular, efficient, and it is an important skill for every swimmer to know. Although the freestyle technique appears simple, it can be challenging to do without adequate knowledge. Every part of the body …
12000-Calorie Michael Phelps’ Diet – Fact or Fable?
Besides setting outstanding records, Michael Phelps’ Diet has been in the news for some recent controversies. There is a widespread belief that the former competitive swimmer has a crazy diet – eating a massive 12,000 calories per day. Undoubtedly, Michael Phelps is the most successful Olympian ever, winning 23 gold medals (Olympics) in his career. …
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10 Reasons Why Open Water Swimming Rocks
Do you need ten reasons why open water swimming rocks? Then you are at the right place. Open water swimming is becoming more popular with many people getting involved. People enjoy open water swimming outdoors in lakes, oceans, seas, and larger water bodies around the world. Excitingly, more and more people will get involved. From …
6 Ways to Improve Your Freestyle Kick
One of your top priorities during swimming workouts should be improving freestyle kicks. In swimming, every part of your body is essential to your swimming. Excellent body coordination translates to better swimming performance. Swimming requires propulsion, and your arms cannot do that alone. If you are swimming over a long distance, you’ll get exhausted quickly. …
How to Protect Your Hair and Skin From Chlorine in Pools
One of the basic important things to know as a swimmer is how to protect your hair and skin from Chlorine. Chlorine offers many benefits, especially in pool management, where it helps to keep microorganisms at bay. However, when used in swimming pools, its effect on the hair and skin can be unpleasant. As a …
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How to Recover Quickly From Swimming
Even if you practice freestyle, strokes and flip turns, or go for competitions, you will get tired and eventually leave the pool. By then, it is time to use a swimmer shampoo, dry yourself with a swim towel and allow your body to recover. Post-swimming (and injury) recoveries are essential to every swimmer as it …
Learn How to Float in Water in 5 Steps
Swimming can be a nice way to relieve yourself of stress and refuel your motivation tank. However, it doesn’t always have to be swimming or attempting various strokes, you can also try floating in water which is effortless. Asides relieving stress, learning how to float in water comes with its own benefits protecting you from …
How to Do a Flip Turn in Swimming
You have learned the basics of swimming from freestyle to stroke and to proper swimming posture. And now it’s time to take things to the next level. One of such ways to improve your swimming techniques is by mastering the flip turn movement. You do not have to do the touch and turn before you …
How to Swim Freestyle Faster for Better Winning Chances
Every swimmer wants to be the best in freestyle swimming, winning the medals and breaking the records. Swimming, just like any other sport, requires practice. Of course, you need to devote your time to do a lot of that, even regularly and effectively. Freestyle swimming gives swimmers fewer rules and restrictions. Despite this, it can …
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