Swimming Drills

The Best Drills To Improve Speed & Length

 

Note: This page is on basic swimming drills. Expert Advice For Olympic Standard Swimming Use Effortless Swimming

 

Swimming drills

Are used to improve your:

 

• Distance per stroke

Refining your technique through swimming drills, will likely lead to
a clear increase in your total distance traveled per each stroke you make.

 

• Swimming speed

As your technique improves you’ll find it easier to travel distances
in shorter times.

 

• Maximum swimming length

While your technique improves you will be putting less and less
effort into each stroke, meaning you’ll be able to travel longer distances with the same exertion.

Basic Swimming Drills

Disclaimer:
Please only try these techniques supervision at the shallow end so if you fail you can easily stand up, never ever go out of your depth when first trying this technique.

 

The basic drills every swimmer would have tried at some point include:

• Sculling

Sculling teaches you buoyancy, as well as improving confidence and arm and leg strength. If your unaware of this technique basically its used to keep you floating in the water, without moving forwards or backwards. Effectively you relax your arms and wave them in a figure of eight (both of them with each arm point outwards), with your legs slightly bend them, gently push them outwards (each leg diagonally) and then quickly bring your knees and feet back together.

 

• Legs only

Hear you float both your arms outstretched on top of the water and simply swim only with your legs as if you were swimming breaststroke, you MUST be confident with your breaststroke before doing this. This will massively improve your kicking ability.

 

• Arms only

This is like the technique above, except this time your only swimming with your arms (as if doing breaststroke) relax your legs and slightly bend them. This improves your arm strength.

Swimming Drills:

More Basic Drills:

 

In the following video, they discuss the best three swimming drills these are fairly basic and are all geared towards the front crawl (or regular freestyle).

The techniques spoken about are:

 

 Slow arm recovery
 This involves a hesitation between continuing the arm movement

 Quick Catch
 Here there’s an emphases in a flex in wrist and elbow as you  stroke

 

 

 

High Swingers
The last one is an exaggeration of your arm movement basically you really release your arm high so you almost have a striaght arm over the water.

Advanced Swimming Drills

 

These are more tips and drills, but can really help your swimming. Although they are geared more towards open water swimmers they’ll definitely benefit you in the pool.

 

These tips are provided by Dave Scott whose a six time iron man world champion, and include tips to improve the following faults:

 

•  High head

 Common in open water swimmers, your hips and feet will  ride much better if you keep your head down.

 

•  Overreaching

 This causes poor positioning in the water, and can really  slow you down.

 

•  Overextension

 This is basically when you reach too far over the water.

 

•  Dropped Elbow

 This is the most common flaw, especially when your  tired!

 

If your looking to really take your swimming to the next level and are look for a way to refine your technique a national Australian swim coach called Brendan ford, goes really in-depth in further step by step lessons and swimming drills. We recommend the following Effortless Swimming




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