Swimming technique

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Learn six things you can do to improve your freestyle technique to swim faster without feeling tired.

Olympic swimmers need to ignore their intuition when it comes to the best ways to propel themselves through the water to glory. Scientists have made several discoveries about the mechanics of swimming since the last summer Games, refuting seemingly obvious assumptions.

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Ready to take your freestyle technique to the next level? Here’s a look at the most common freestyle technique errors and some drills and tips to fix them.

From a doggy paddle, start with breaststroke: it is the easiest and slowest swimming stroke for beginners. If you’re still uncomfortable putting your head underwater, start practising breaststroke kicks with your head above the water.

So many swimmers struggle with their arms and their pull, while doing freestyle. If done incorrectly, you can lose a LOT of energy, making your workout pretty exhausting. Pulling with the wrong technique is probably the most common mistake we see in beginner swimmers! Whether you're a competitive swimmer or just looking to improve your

Swimming, more than any other type of exercise, requires technical training to be done properly. Most people can walk and running is a natural extension of walking quickly. There are some technical details of running form that can be improved in nearly every runner, but by-and-large you can go out and run regardless of your skill level or training. Swimming, you need to know how, to a certain point or you’ll die. After that certain point, you need to have enough skills to move through the…

Oh, what did I hear you say? You think you can get away with sub-par breathing techniques if you’re doing the back float? Unfortunately, you can’t. Without proper breathing techniques, you wouldn’t even be able to float! Fret not, as I’m here to run you through 6 useful tips that can help with that.