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How to Tell If Your Feet and Hips are Sinking While You're Swimming and How to Fix It
Without getting into too many specifics about fluid mechanics and the laws of physics, it’s safe to say that if your feet and hips are low, they produce more drag. More drag needs more propulsion to overcome the drag, and more propulsion requir...
How to Stop Swallowing Water While You're Swimming
If you’ve ever swum in a pool with a lot of swimmers doing a butterfly workout, you know very well what it’s like to get a mouth full of water. Same if you’ve been in an open water swim when a random wave decides to come your way at...
Why You Should Take These Swimming Selfies
When I’m in a groove, my strokes are wonderfully smooth, powerful, and efficient. Every turn is streamlined, and every breath is a masterpiece in the art of alignment.
Coupling Motions: A Powerful Swimming Technique You Might Not Have Heard of Before
Coupling motions are part of our everyday lives and help us move faster, but we don’t think about them much. These motions by themselves generate no propulsion. But when they’re coupled or timed with a propulsive force, they act to make t...
If You Can Do This You Might Be A Natural Breaststroker
Most good breaststrokers have an anatomical commonality: They stand with their toes pointed out. Not necessarily in opposite directions, although many can do that on demand. For the straight-footed or pigeon-toed, things are different. The key differ...
This Skill Can Help You Become a Better Swimmer
Swimming is a difficult sport to master and to pick up again. If you haven’t been in the water for a while, you probably feel like you have some catching up to do. If you’ve come to swimming from a different sport and are using it to cros...
This Children’s Song Can Help You Swim Faster
A swimmer’s drag profile is the area that faces resistance from the water when the swimmer is trying to move. A larger drag profile means more water pushing against the swimmer, which creates more resistance and decreases speed. Shrinking the d...
Three Drills to Improve Your Breaststroke Timing
The most difficult aspect of breaststroke to master is the timing. Even the most skilled swimmers in the world struggle with this from time to time. It’s something that many athletes feel they lose over the course of a long season or career. Do...
Breathing Easy to the Side on Butterfly
The strength and precise timing butterfly requires might make it the most difficult stroke to master, especially for Masters swimmers who are learning how to swim later in life. Masters swimmers have a range of abilities, ages, and body types, and so...
Kick Your Kick into Shape
When it’s time for a kick set, many of us grab a kickboard and get kicking—that’s usually my modus operandi anyway. But is kicking with kickboards the safest way for us to get our kicks in? “From a postural perspective, using...
