From the article: Swimming Better To Do List - 10 Tips for Swimmers
What have you done to be a better swimmer? Drills? Favorite workouts? Share your ideas and tips with other swimmers to help them swim better. Share Your Swimming Tips
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- 1.make sure your feet are flexed 2.do all flip turns because it will be useful and it picks up speed 3.try to push your self off the starting block as far as possible 4.always keep you feet flexed even if your a beginner I hope this was useful thanks for reading. bye, Amber B. :D
- —Guest amber
I am a good floater but cant kick
- please help me on how to control the hand and leg action.
- —Guest janeffer
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- Do you all not have YMCAs or 24 Hour Fitness? Just Curious. There are tons of gyms (and neighborhood pools) with lap lanes in Austin.
- —Guest qmAVYEjafMzTPPOpdx
help
- please help me to train young swimmer who to swim or get me some swimming drills or workouts for young swimmer please any swimmer there help me
- —Guest hela henry
Swimming Tips
- If you want to become a better swimmer, join a swim team. If you're already on one, than make sure to compete regularly. Do stretches before entering the water, to ensure that you are loose and ready for a work out.
- —Guest Anomyuons
Work out stretches
- There are stretches you can use to work out minus shoulder pain! Cobra stretch is something people use in yoga but is very tiring. All you have to do is lie down on your stomach and slowly(palms touching the ground) bring your straight arms up against your chest and lift your head up. Keep your waist on the ground. Another one is lying down on your side, put one hand on the ground and straighten, bringing the other arm opposite this one, in the air. only your feet and palm should be touching the ground. These stretches have helped me get a workout without swimming. I do swim about 4-5 times a week, 2 hours a day. 30 of those minutes are dryland, where we do stretching, pull ups, running, jump roping, and other land-related activities. Yes, I am a year round competitive swimmer. I am only 12 years old. Hope these help!!!
- —Guest Guest swimmaroo
Looking for suggestions...
- Swam all through high school and want to get back into it, but when I swim now I get severe pain and fatigue in my shoulders after about 4-6 laps. If I take a break and stretch them out, it will go away, but will come right back as soon as I start swimming again. It’s become very frustrating as I feel like I’m not getting a good workout. I was diagnosed with tendinitis in both shoulders back in high school so I have to think it’s related to that. Any thoughts on ways that I can combat this?
- —bew0072
Thank you
- Hi my name is Nadia Sharone and I'm on the swim team. I would like to give you a few tips that I have learned in the last week that I've been swimming (:P): 1. ~ WORK OUT ASIDE FROM SWIM PRACTICE! You don't want to just work out at practice because then you won't be getting any better since that's they only time you're losing a bunch of calories! 2. ~ PRACITCE! Go in the morning if you have practice in the evening. You will improve so much faster! Be sure to have someone watch you so they can correct what you're doing wrong (you don't want to pro something that's incorrect!) 3. RELAX! 4. STRECH! Or else you'll get all cramped up. 5. HAVE FUN! (BUT NOT Too much fun!) ~Nadia S. P.S. I'm only 11!
- —Guest Nadia Sharone
Help
- Jill - ive been swimming for 15 years+ and dont know how to keep the water out. i think you just get used to it in time. harkaoui - you'll feel heavy in the water because there is more resistance to movement, you get used to it fairly quickly and not notice it. ABC - you arnt pushing yourself hard enough, your cruising the 40 lenghts. try and time yourself for a 50m set at about 85% top speed, and give your self maybe 15-20 seconds rest after this. if you contine for 40 lenghts doing this, you should be well tired out. :D
- —Guest LeFrench
Tips!
- Start off with freestlyle when you train, start slow, and get faster. Do... maybe 20 laps? Then do about 20 laps of kicking with a kick board, then 20 laps with a pullboy, then do a few I.M.'s. After that, I like to do sprints. I have this huge digital clock, and I will do a 25 in.. 30 seconds? If I do it in 25 seconds, then I have 6 seconds to rest. Get it? Then I'll do a 50 in a 1 minute. It helps you go faster, then keep your endurance straight. At the end of practice, do a cool down of 20 laps of more freestyle! This is what I do :) Also, train with a friend, they also keep your focus and help you count laps, because if you do it yourself, sometimes you won't do all the laps ;)
- —Guest Sammi
get back to swim
- I used to swim only in the summer when i was young. But since i moved (away from beach). I started to gain weight since i don't have another sport activity. Lately, i motivated myself to subscribe to a swimming pool. I exploit my 2 hours of lunch to go to. I Bring well equilibrated food (alot of vegetables and fruits). I never buy burgers ... In the pool, i started progressively. every time i go i make note what i did ( X meters of crawl...) the next time i do more , etc. After only two weeks of 3 times/ week exercice, i started to feel i retruned back as i used. Now, i want to improve my swimming techniques, and start compute the duration of swimming.
- —Guest Walid
Tips and Advice
- Some tips on how to get better is take practice seriously and work hard on the drills. During off season hit the gym and lift weights and/or plyometrics. Buy a drag suit and swim with it in practice. Use supplements suchs as N.O Xplode, JAcked, Cytonox, etc. ( they are legal so its not cheating) Buy a full body swim suit, if you have the money. In conclusion, always focus( if u can listen to your heart beat, you know you're truly focused) PUSH yourself, remember to always kick hard and streamline off the blocks and wall, and use good technique.
- —Jrod7
Get better
- *Take your brain into the water with you, don't leave it on deck. Think about what you are doing. *Watch other swimmers, assess, be critical *Read, watch videos, attend symposiums, lectures etc. *Talk to other swimmers, share ideas *Try new things. Pool swimmers do a lake swim or ocean and vice versa. Sprinters do distance challenges, etc. *Visualize while swimming and perform to the mental image. *find a default practice you can do every time you swim. Note elapsed times, stroke counts and pulse rates. This is a great way to check yourself from time to time for consistency and improvement. *Don't neglect other strokes even though you prefer to swim only one. Call on all muscle groups to perform, just a little each practice, for balance. *Eliminate the word "workout" from your mind. When swimming, think "practice". Each time you get into the water, you are working to improve and better your strokes, not beat yourself up. You will have more fun that way.
- —Guest open.water
Swimming tips! :)
- Okay I'm on a swim team & here are some tips : Always stretch before if you don't you aren't reaching your full-potential. Your muscles will cramp up and you will get tired faster. Remember to kick and pull - ALL THE TIME. I used to just swim with my arms and barely kick because I was so strong in my arms. But no, watch yourself ! :) Make sure you don't eat anything un-healthy before a swim meet or practice, that will NOT AGREE ! Make sure to breath regularly, and move your arms faster, it's always good to think about someone/something/anything you hate and you will pretty much get like a EXTRA PUSH! My coach always said : When you are feeling like you can go no longer and swim no faster that's when you need to push yourself. THAT, right there is what is making a difference. ALWAYS PUSH YOURSELF. & Love swimmingg. (:
- —Guest Sarah
about swimming
- may I know the do's and don'ts in swimming???please I need your answer!!!Hope you will help me in my problem!!!I just wanted to know the thing that should do and not in swimming.....
- —Guest glendy
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