Swimming – Freestyle – Limit the Legs

If you’re a sprint freestyle swimmer, you want your kick to be FAST, COMPACT, and PRODUCTIVE. But what if you are a sprint freestyler with a fast kick, and you’ve been corralled into a 1650, or an open-water swim? Here’s a drill that can teach you how to TURN OFF that kick when you need to. And if you are a distance swimmer or triathlete, this drill can hel you SAVE your legs until you need them.

Swimming – Freestyle – Stun Gun

Stun Gun is a very simple drill that challenges you to get the absolute most out of all aspects of your freestyle stroke. It calls for balance, control of the recovery, and a constant kick to keep things moving.

Swimming – Turns – Freestyle Flip Turn Step #5

Here’s the fifth and final step in our learning sequence for flip turns.

Swimming – Freestyle Flip Turn Step #3

Here’s Step #3 in our 5-step sequence for learning the flip turn. Even if your flip turns are pretty good, this drill will help make them faster by making you more aware of your hands and arms.

Swimming – Starts – Forward Dive Sequence Step #4

When we started our sequence of drills for learning how to do a forward dive off the blocks, we THOUGHT it would take just four steps. But we found that getting from this which is Step #3

Swimming – Breaststroke – Streamlined Push

Truth be told, there really isn’t a simpler drill in existence, yet there also isn’t a drill that carries more importance in all of swimming.

Swimming – Freestyle – 5-Count Switch

Staying in balance in freestyle is one of the best ways to maintain speed. Figuring out how to control your bodyline to OBTAIN that balance, especially when you’re completing your pull, is one of the fine points of freestyle.

Swimming – All-Strokes – Underwater Tempo-Trainer Dolphins

In case you missed the Olympics last week, and in case you missed how swimming was sorta in the limelight, you may have also missed seeing how important underwater dolphins are to a swimmer’s success. As a hint, it’s the first thing we’ve started working on… even for us old Masters swimmers.

Swimming – Freestyle – Loper Drill

In watching the Olympics, we can’t help but notice the impact that “lopers” are having in freestyle. While high-rate freestylers and straight-arm freestylers have been getting the most attention this year for the speeds they’ve achieved, lopers are certainly making a HUGE impact.

Swimming – Turns – Freestyle Flip Turn Step #2

Here’s Step #2 in our 5-step sequence for learning the flip turn. Even if you already know how to flip, this drill is fun and will reinforce the key skill of using your abs rather than your hands to initiate the flip.

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