How to swim faster

To swim faster .

You need to create a stronger support in our swimming camps .

Some people have a good technique but cannot accelerate .

They have one constant speed .

After a very careful analysis , we discovered two very subtle skills that can help you swim faster .

The first thing is shoulder shock .

A shoulder shark is basically pulling your shoulder closer to your ear .

In swimming .

When you pull your arm , you do an upper rotation of the scalp as you move your arm down , you release the shrug .

The problem is that it's not a linear movement .

You don't just shrug and un shrug .

If you want to swim faster , you need to keep your scapula up as you anchor your hand and forearm down .

Let me explain that again .

As your hand moves from above your head to out and down your shoulder should be close to your ear .

If by the time your hand is pointing down your scapula is downward rotated , you will have a very weak support in the power face of the stroke .

I feel like that wasn't clear enough .

I'll use another method to explain this even further .

A Aron is no longer a beginner swimmer .

He knows how to keep balance , use his legs correctly , hold the rotation , bend the elbow , breathe quickly and do the s shape pull .

When he's swimming next to Bela , he cannot keep up .

They are both doing almost the same movement , but Bela knows something that a Aron doesn't .

He knows how to set an early vertical forearm before pulling back quickly .

A Aron just pulls his hands back as quickly as he can .

If we slow things down , we can see that Bela slowly puts his form in place first and then accelerates the movement of the arm .

A Aron just pulls the arm at the same speed out of all the most common swimming mistakes .

This is probably one of the most difficult ones to correct this drill called sculling helps it will make a Aron feel the initial part of the stroke instead of rushing it .

It also helps to improve the feel of the water while maintaining a shoulder shrug .

Swimming , butterfly would be a great exercise to help him accelerate the arm once it is properly set up .

But his Iron Man competition is in two months and he doesn't have time to learn and perfect the butterfly swim .

So we recommend swimming with paddles like in the past video but focusing on the diagonal power face of the stroke outside of the water , we advise doing pull ups and strengthening the scapular muscles with this drilling video by scales and t the other skill that can make you swim a lot faster is streamlining the lower body .

As you know , most of the propulsion in long distance freestyle swimming comes from the arms .

The legs play a major role in slowing people down .

We talked about how difficult it is when they sink , but it is equally important that they remain in line with the torso .

Otherwise they will be creating a lot of resistance from both sides to keep the legs in line .

You need to slightly tighten your core muscles , try to make yourself long like we talked about in the beginning of this series .

Now that a Aron started to pull more effectively with a shoulder shrug , his body will use his hand as a pivot point .

If the core is not tight , the body will simply wrap around the pivot point .

A Aron is basically a cooked spaghetti .

If the core is tight , especially on the opposite side of the arm , pulling the legs become the keel that will help you move fast .

The keel is this fin that extends downward from the boat .

It helps maintain the direction of the boat .

When the wind is pushing it diagonally , you didn't need to know that , but it might help you visualize the function of the legs and core .

While pulling , you need to keep the hips straight from this angle .

Remember that they do rotate on the x axis but they should not move from one side to the other , it took a , a on a couple of tries , but once he got it , he moved faster than ever .

He kept up with Bela's speed .

Although Bela was just cooling down .

As you can see a Aron looks good under water above the water .

His arms still need a lot of improvement .

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