Streamlines down under
- When doing a streamline suck your belly in. This makes you thinner in the water. Which makes go through the water easier.
- —Guest Carly
stay motavated
- jst keep at it and remmber to strech it will help i used to not strech and i got cramps and i was slow and now i strech and im faster plus no cramps!
- —Guest swimmers-feet
form is everything
- you dont need to move your arms and legs fast to be fast. If you keep a streamlined form in the water and remember to gliiide you will improve dramatically
- —Guest meg
swimming tips
- ~ never clench your hands while swimming, it strains muscles ~ push yourself to the last minute! when i stop, i feel like i could've done better. i've gotten past that now tho. ~ in free style, kick underwater ~ in breastroke, keep a distance between ur thumb and other fingers. ~ i agree that keeping a log is a good idea, but recording things like sharing lanes is not necessary at all. ~ train your leg muscles not to cramp up, or that means you're not in shape.
- —Guest strawberries and cream cakes
Be Careful
- getting blisters from your feet always being on the floor of the pool can really convince you not to swim for a while either keep going and be brave or wear swim shoes(I would not wear shoes).
- —Guest Kellie
Zip-lock Workout Sheets
- To stay interested in swimming and to help build endurance and speed, change your workouts. I do this by using Matt Luebbers' workouts on this site (which are great -thanks Matt!). Because there may be five different sets per workout, I like to keep the sheet with me poolside and refer to it after each set. I place the printed sheet in a zip-lock baggy to keep it dry. I take one out and put another in for the next workout.
- —Guest Cal
Dont Forget Kicking
- People say that arms are the fastest part. Wrong in truth legs can keep your speed up and make u a faster stronger swimming.
- —Guest Shea
Swimming Tips
- The best thing you can do each swim session is to work on form. If your form is correct you will swim better and be less likely to suffer an injury. The next most important thing is to mix it up. Dont do the same routine again and again. If you dont mix it up you will never see any advances in your swimming
- —Guest Kristina Smith
This beginner kept a log
- After a decade of not swimming, I hit the pool again this past July. Once again a novice! I found that keeping a log of each session, with date, which numbered swim (i.e., "86th swim"), distance, time, how it felt, what's next, even stuff like "shared a lane", was a big help in keeping me going to the pool and pulling all 200 lbs of me back and forth. I now swim 1,150 yards every other day, in about 35 minutes time.
- —Guest Brian
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