If you are not a competitive (racing) swimmer, don't work for speed. Strive to increase efficiency - fewer strokes for the same distance. That means improving technique and strength. Efficient breathing will help that also.

1. reduce drag increase propulsion Body and head position 2. keep hips and body near surface of water 3. neutral body eyes looking down (marking on bottom of pool to indicate near wall) Catch and Pull 4. hand entry 18in in front of shoulder. enter with middle and ring finger, don't cross midline with hands or arms 5. after hand enters water, stretch out arm and use rotational momentum to increase reach 6. initiate pull with high elbow, keep wrist and forearm in line and pull straight, vertical forearm, dont pull with straight arm, bend elbow 7. pull with hand slightly relaxed and some space between each finger 8. keep high elbow when returning to starting point Breathe 9. head no go up to breathe, turn to side but not to far, keep 1 eye in water 10. exhale out nose or mouth when under water 11. breathe every 2-4 strokes but keep it consistent, swim with paddle in front of head to enforce good technique Kick 12. from hips not knees, pointed toes, little knee bend 13. kick amplitude 12-18 in wide, short fast kick 14. 1 or 3 kick per arm stroke Streamline 15. squeeze arms together, point toes, engage core and legs, biceps squeezed behind ears 16. when push of wall torpedo like, dolphin kicks, short and fast, pick2-5 dolphin kicks after wall push off

As a newbie at 30 years of age this video is pure gold. I know what I am doing wrong by seeing the video but executing everything like these gorgeous people is so hard, but I love the challenge of this sport. Thank you so much !

I'm 76 , still learning. Swim daily . Continually Loki g for the perfect stroke.

Less drags and more propulsion Correct body and head position Catch and pull technique Correct breathing technique Correct leg kicks And practice makes perfect

Oh man - years of swim practice under a coach - now years later this is helping me pick apart my current stroke. I’ve really lost the crispness of a well composed stroke. So helpful! I will put this into action immediately. I excited for the result.

There's only one way that I ever learned to swim without getting tired: In college, before our big conference meet (AKA NCAA's qual meet), we would swim at Summit County High School for a few weeks over Christmas break (That is over 10,000 ft above sea level BTW). The air is rare up there...and practices were brutal! Then we would immediately taper and swim our conference meet at the old Belmont Olympic Pool in Long Beach, which was literally lower than sea level. (LOT'S of air). If you hit your taper right and you trained hard enough at the super high altitude, you felt like a living God for just a few days before you lost the taper and/or acclimated to the new environment. I highly recommend it for anyone that can actually train that high and race that low...it was life-changing.

The air pocket thing is the main problem, i guess, because people don´t want to swallow a gallon of water, while practicing

Would love to see a video about how to swim more slowly without sinking !

Good video. I'm 73 y.o. and have been swimming almost my whole life. A refresher is a great thing!

I tried your technique at the pool today. While, I felt the drag to be less, and my speed improved, I couldn't help gulping water when I tried the one eye inside the water breathing technique. Any tips?

This is pretty helpful, good to go back to basics 💪🏻

A lot of the technique tips help with applying more power by engaging more muscles and catching more water, so I feel like I learned how to swim hard and fast and that works, but my problem is I struggle to stay below aerobic threshold and I can't swim more than about two or three 25s without a short rest to catch up breath. I normally breathe every third stroke. The last thing I tried was using the 2-beat kick only and that helped. I know I need to improve fitness, but I wonder why I don't seem to be able to slow things down enough to where I can sustain it.

HE DID NOT JUST SWIM WITH A SUIT ON

Possibly the best swimming advice video I've seen and I've seen tonnes! Well done everyone involved.

comprehensive, concise, short, and useful tutorial! Thanks

I want to say thank you so much for sharing all body types in your videos. It means a whole lot.

Great! And thank you soooo much! Your videos and guidance really provide insight on the what and why of the swimming techniques.

Very excited to apply all this on my swimming today thanks for the tips!

Sheeeeesh. What a great video. I was expecting to watch about 7 different videos on this topic, but this one did the job of them all.

Excellent video, very helpful and detailed without a bunch of needless junk.

Precise and concise. Really well done. Thank you.

Man... I used all techniques described in this video and my swimming got instantly better!

Great analysis and conclusions, efficient and sympathetic talk, thanks a bunch!🤩🤩

Speed consistency can very so much in a public swim line 1 hour session. Slowing down/speeding up is very energy intensive and this can really use up energy levels fast. Occasionally there faster days so i can stay at my comfortable speed for longer which help with all techniques i have learned but when your force to slow down it really does hit speed/energy levels.

Wonderful and practical as usual❤ great app, I recommend to any one who likes to enjoy the swimming and get healthier at the same time improve his/her swimming regardless any level they are now! When you have a app you will feel the differences ! I look at it this way: Having the app for 52 weeks practice is the same investment as 3 session swim class one by one! Happy swimming 😊

This is literally such a good video for a beginner like me. Loved it. Thank you

such useful advice! Thanks a lot!

So basically the key to not get tired is to fix literally everything lol

Thank you so much for this tips. I am a new swimmer but I’m getting better every single day.

Thanku for the detailed class

Thank you for awesome instructions. I like your word” happy swimming.”

When u said “the end of the yo know you are close to the end” it helped me a lot.tysm

Your channel has really helped me grow as a swimmer. I used to swim competitively as a child and teen, took an 8 year break doing something else and came back realizing I forgot a lot of my technique and endurance. Three months in and I swam sub 60min 3km. I know it's not great, but I'm slowly getting there.

Thanks that was sooooo helpful!

This is actually the most helpful swimming video ever

Thanks that was sooooo helpful!❤

Thanks a lot. This really helped me.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. I figure swimming efficiently is about half mechanics, and half conditioning. I was chatting with some one in the pool the other day and they were surprised by how far I was swimming. They commented that they were swimming dog paddle, and could never relax in the water. So, for them, it was a combination of most inefficient swim stroke ever, and not being able to relax. I still don't understand why coaches comment about the kick does not come from the knee. While using a scissor kick, like used in the life guard side stroke, is not efficient unless you are dragging some one through the water and can't use both arms. It produces a lot of thrust, but also huge amounts of drag. Bending the leg at the knee is a huge part of getting maximum power out of the kick as you 'crack the whip'.

This helped a lot thank you

I am hoping to get back into swimming after quitting for nearly a decade. Thank you for making this video.

Great great notes and reminder, although the music is distracting, thank u so much

absolutely chaotic video

WAW that's your best video so far..it's like a dream u hear of a great counter!

High quality video, thanks

Thank you for all these useful tips, but all these apply best only in swimming pools. In the sea it is different. Once you take half of your face out of the water to breethe, a small wave can cause you inhale sea water instead of air. Of course in the sea you are kept afloat more easily in comparison to the pool.

Oh with the body rotation tip, I also find this puts less strain on your shoulders because you are basically meeting your shoulders halfway with your body.

What a very useful video I'll try everything thanks a lot

Great information👍 Ty

Excellent tips

THIS IS AWESOME!

as a competitive swimmer for one of our practices before finals there is a drag day every year so we can get stronger and we have to do a mile the same day.

im learning how to swim and its really helpful to see proper technique 😊

Thanks that helps a lot

Awesome video!

Great video but the music is just annoying and too loud.

Thank you it helped

This was very helpful

Life is Best when you swim and run thank you coach❤❤❤

TY this helped me a lot

Ty ty ty for this vid helped so much 🎉

Thanks buddy 🤝😊

Really great

Great Video.

Thank you so much 😊☺️❤

Nice tips!

Hello, swimming gods another fantastic video. Thanks for sharing your best tips and tricks, and improving me day by day I request you for the video on dolphin kicks and hand movement.

very good tip

Thank you

U helped me so much and u said to keep head on facing floor it helped me thx😊

i was under the belief that today most instructors/ coaches were teaching the IAN THORPE method, the great swimmer from AUSTRALIA ...he has the most efficient swim stroke of ALL TIME, on film they counted his strokes in the finals of the olympics and the second place guy took more than twice the strokes than IAN did...

You tend to show freestyle in 90% of your videos. This is my own opinion but backstroke is the best stroke, and the stroke that I use for most of time when I swim laps. I like it because you can breathe so much easier.

Thanks

Good job

Very good.

Its work, Im swimming 24h non stop still going 💪🏻

I'm going swimming today so I'm gonna have to try

Finding the perfect coordination of your breathing and hand leg movement

thats a good shot its🔥🔥

Very good

keeping a pad on my head looks so stupid,but a very helpful video this is, thanks

Merci 👍

Luv it 💓

Please use metric units when talking about the length of kick and stuff.

I love this technic oooo🎉😊

Very efficient speaking from experience 😉😉😌😌🤩🤩🤩😃👍👍

Good video I will download the app

i really need to practice my breathing, nothing i do is working out, i will try the paddle board technique and see if it helps.

I like it so much

Perfect video angle that shows how to take a breath without lifting your head out of the water 3:50

wow this is a great 10 min commercial for the app! xD

Nice

this man just explained what i have wondered for decades. the line on the bottom of the pool. i thought it was to make walking harder since its so fucking slippery

Hi guys! I loved seeing the waterline showing when halfway underwater and then seeing the waterline pass the top screen moving all the way underwater and moving down to the bottom when someone dived in the water to swim a couple times! Beautiful!❤️🐟🐬😘💦😊😍🌺🌷💧👙🙂🐳👍🌊🐠🥰💕🌸🦋🐋

Which garmin watch would you recommend?

Hi. Thanks for your videos. Always inspiring. I have a question: does body fat create drag in some way? I mean is a lean person will be faster than a fat person if they would have pretty much the same technic? Thanks.

For me it’s about getting bored after about a mile. I just pick my pace and go.

I love ❤️ swimming 🏊‍♀️ lol 😂

Hi thanks for this video , Does my swim pro App suits for Garmin forruner 235 ?

I'd love this better without the noisy background music. Swimming should be calming, that is not calming music.