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5 Tips On How To Get Motivated To Train (Keep Swimming And Show Up For Swim Practice)

If you ask top athletes out there about what makes them give it a 100% at every practice even if the body says no? The answer is relatively simple. The thought of their goals being fulfilled motivates them to achieve the impossible. Of course, let's come back to earth and realize that we are...
5 Tips On How To Get Motivated To Train (Keep Swimming And Show Up For Swim Practice)

Early Vertical Forearm Explained (Learn To Catch Water In Your Freestyle Stroke With High Elbow)

It looks like that the most requested topic in the last poll on the Swimator blog is about freestyle. Well, let me talk to you about how to get the most power out of your stroke. After you learn how to properly hold your body in the water and relax you can move on to starting to use your a...
Early Vertical Forearm Explained (Learn To Catch Water In Your Freestyle Stroke With High Elbow)

How To Learn Arm Movement During Freestyle Swimming?

Based on your comments from the blog and the poll, it looks like you are requesting some information and guidance on how to move your arms during the freestyle stroke. So, here we go. Freestyle is what you would call an asymmetric swimming style. Well, asymmetric is a strong word, but almost....
How To Learn Arm Movement During Freestyle Swimming?

How To Do Back To Breast Turns (Open vs. Bucket vs. Cross-Over)

In the individual medley races, there are a lot of transitions between strokes: fly to back, back to breast, breast to free where each swimmer could either gain or lose time on the opponents. Usually, the most complex turn is the one from backstroke to breaststroke. In the history of swimming,...
How To Do Back To Breast Turns (Open vs. Bucket vs. Cross-Over)

How Not To Swim Freestyle (Top 4 Freestyle Stroke Mistakes)

Let's check out how the freestyle stroke is NOT supposed to be done, for a change. In this post, I will examine a short video where you will see a front view of a freestyle swimmer who is swimming against the current in a small swim flume (endless pool). These endless swimming pools are quite ni...
How Not To Swim Freestyle (Top 4 Freestyle Stroke Mistakes)

Swimming With Little Britain (David Walliams vs. Thames Swim Marathon)

I love the Little Britain comedy show and the humor the main comedians, David Walliams and Matt Lucas, bring us in their other sketch comedy endeavors. You don't see very many celebrities joining the swimming crowd and therefore, I was quite excited when I saw that David Walliams is putting on...
Swimming With Little Britain (David Walliams vs. Thames Swim Marathon)

Track Start vs. Grab Start Explained (Should I Choose The Track Start Or The Grab Start For My Races?)

Should I do a track start or a grab start? That is a question I get asked quite a lot. My answer usually is that it really depends on many things. Such things could be your body agility, what type of event you swim, how deep you want to go on a dive and what you feel comfortable with. If yo...
Track Start vs. Grab Start Explained (Should I Choose The Track Start Or The Grab Start For My Races?)

How To Swim Slower And Improve Your Freestyle

Many of us are caught up in our fast-paced society often forgetting to just stop and think. This causes us to do things over and over without realizing that there might be a smarter way to help us go forward. As a swim coach or a swimmer, you should always be trying to adjust your ways and exp...
How To Swim Slower And Improve Your Freestyle

7 Tips On How To Speed Up Your Butterfly And Breaststroke Turn

I've been swimming and coaching for many years and one thing that I see the most room for improvement, even in competitive swimmers, is the butterfly and breaststroke turn. Let me give you a few tips and tricks on how to improve and speed up your butterfly or breaststroke turn. 1) Do not be...
7 Tips On How To Speed Up Your Butterfly And Breaststroke Turn

What Hand Paddles Should I Use?

Let me stop you right there, I implore you to ask a much better question: What Do I Need Paddles For? If your answer to this question is "I don't know, everyone else is using them" or "I feel more powerful with paddles" or "I swim faster with paddles" or something along those lines, then chan...
What Hand Paddles Should I Use?
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