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The Fast Lane ZA
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2022
Welcome to our TH-cam channel, your ultimate destination for everything swimming-related! Whether you're a beginner dipping your toes into the water for the first time or an experienced swimmer looking to refine your technique, we've got you covered with a wide range of informative and engaging videos.
Our mission is to provide you with realistic information that will set your expectations for your swimming journey. Most of what you see on TH-cam is either a gimmick to get you to watch their video or completely out of context and we believe working with a coach first to identify what you need help with and then using our videos to improve your swimming. We are here for everyone from beginners learning to swim or an advanced swimmer or even coaches needing new ideas our videos will help guide you to understanding more about swimming and propulsion and navigating your way around water in the most efficient way possible.
Our mission is to provide you with realistic information that will set your expectations for your swimming journey. Most of what you see on TH-cam is either a gimmick to get you to watch their video or completely out of context and we believe working with a coach first to identify what you need help with and then using our videos to improve your swimming. We are here for everyone from beginners learning to swim or an advanced swimmer or even coaches needing new ideas our videos will help guide you to understanding more about swimming and propulsion and navigating your way around water in the most efficient way possible.
The secret to breathing in freestyle
How to breathe properly and why to try this way. READ CAPTION TO FULLY UNDERSTAND. In my previous video I posted about the most common mistake swimmers make when breathing, here I will explain how to breathe every 3 strokes. I recommend this breathing pattern the most because it gives you the most control over your stroke and will allow you to continue for longer periods at any pace without getting out of breath or fatigue. You can apply this concept to any breathing pattern or rhythm you like as long as you hold your breath and you exhale on the beginning of the stroke before you intend to breathe. Holding your breath will bring your heart rate down, exhaling will allow you to get rid of the carbon dioxide and fully be ready to inhale enough air to feed the muscles with oxygen.
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The most common mistake in breathing
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The mistake you might be making without knowing it. I have seen all levels of swimmers making this mistake even elite level. Coming from a synchronized swimming background breathing plays an important role and we focus on this a lot so I transferred my knowledge to my coaching and have helped 100s of swimmers improve their breath control and maximise on their swimming. Watch my next video on ho...
How to stop sinking in freestyle - the basics
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Back to the basics is always the key. If you feel like you are out of balance and you are sinking you need to focus on aligning your spine as much as possible. Sometimes this is not easy if you have bad posture or you struggle with mobility in your back and shoulders. But practicing these two basic things could make all the difference. Being close to the surface is the goal the moment we start ...
Improve your freestyle with this drill | better pull | better freestyle catch technique
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Over the past 10 years that I've been coaching, I have gone through dozen of drills to help teach the catch and pull.In artistic swimming training we use muscle memory for everything training technique over and over again to ensure we would build muscle memory. I combined freestyle drill with sculling and found that this is the perfect drill to teach the mind and the body to remember and to fee...
Improve your swimming by doing this 3 in 1 land warm up | land training for swimmers
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If you are looking for a quick land warm up before you jump into the pool this great 3 in 1 5 minute warm up will do the trick. Prevent injury, improve mobility and increase strength. There are many benefits to these exercises in this particular order like maintaining good body alignment, improving shoulder strength to reduce the dropping of your front arm while you swim and improve mobility to...
Master your breathing with 3 simple drills
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Forget about the complicated drills! All these videos on youtube show you perfect swimmers but they don't show you the "simple", "plain" and "boring" drills they do that really work. Even as an Olympic athlete I repeat these basic drills daily. You need to set a good foundation before you can move on to building your house. Try these 3 drills at the beginning of every session for a month and se...
3 Scull drill for better freestyle
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Looking for that early catch in freestyle but not sure how to achieve this. These 3 sculls I have been using for years to teach the muscle memory, improve strength and propulsion so that when you do swim freestyle your body knows what to do. No need to do complicated drills, breaking the stroke down into its most basic form and then building it back up will help you to simplify the technique an...
Master yout propulsion with - Torpedo/Totem Scull
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One of the more advanced sculls to help you work your propulsion and body alignment. Increases strength for swimming and works mobility. Here are some tips: -Torpedo or known as totem scull is a pushing scull with the hands above the head and the feet are leading first. - Placing the hands above the head palms facing away from the body propelling you like a torpedo down the pool. - In this scul...
Master your propulsion for freestyle with this high elbow catch scull |sculling technique
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The best scull for swimmers trying to achieve a high elbow catch. Here are some tips: - Reinforcing the high elbow catch position, teaching the brain muscle memory & feeling of this position and then adding a scull to increase strength, mobility and propulsion in this position. - Elbows need to aim to be in-front of the head, and forearms need to be vertical palms facing the back of the pool - ...
Master your propulsion with Head First Scull
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Known as back scull in swimming head first scull is a basic scull that can help teach your swimmers good propulsive force. - Head first scull is a push/pressing scull - Placing the hands next to the hips try to encourage the swimmers to scull more underneath their bottom pinching the shoulder blades together throughout. - Flex the wrists so that the palms face the feet or the back of the pool a...
Master your propulsion with Foot First Scull
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A simple scull to help improve propulsion in swimming. This scull is a pulling scull it is similar to the breastroke motion. Here are some tips: - Foot first scull is a pulling scull - This means the movement is a pulling motion with the hands. - Placing the hands next to the hips try to encourage the swimmers to scull more underneath their bottom pinching the shoulder blades together throughou...
Afraid of hitting the wall in your tumbleturn?
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You can use this 12.5m drill to practice your tumble turns taking away the fear factor of hitting the wall. Once you feel confident you can return to practicing at the wall in your sets. All swimming gear in this video was proudly sponsored by Made Wave South Africa - www.madwave.co.za
I was trained in bilateral freestyle as a child, and at some point i switched to unilateral, thinking i need to grow up or something. In following years i couldn't even do 4×25m free without passing out completely, and i didn't know what the problem was. I was so frustrated seeing everyone swimming front crawl with ease but me. It lasted for years and I thought i was good in breast and back and i should stick to it. Not untill recently when I switched back to bilateral pathern again, now I'm unstoppable. I have enough strength/stamina and technique for freestyle like everyone else. So, it's important for everyone to try both and see what suits them the best.
This makes so much sense because when I blow on the first, by the third I'm out of breath and my main problem is not having my face up in the water enough to only breathe air, i take in some water too 😢
Absolutely, imagine exhaling the entire time while running or exercising? It would be exhausting right. Think of it this way yoga, pilates and basically all exercise is mastered by controlled breathing which in fact includes a breath hold and long relaxed exhale and an inhale the more your relax the easier it will be to breath as your lunges are a muscle too and if they are too tense it will restrict them from expanding. When we learn to expand and decrease our lunges we also work in buoyancy because our lunges are similar to balloons. Try to imagine you will breath at the start of the first stroke as soon as you pull you will aim to breathe. In real life this will always happen slightly later but it will force you to get the timing correct.
Thanks! I'll try it.
keep us posted on how it feels and if it works for you
Thanks for sharing. And is it possible to exhale from the first stroke, but on portions? 🙂
Every persons breathing can be slightly different and each person needs more or sometimes less time to exhale depending on your lung capacity. I would recommend as long as you hold your breath for a bit initially then exhale in parts and ensure you exhale enough and that you don't delay the breathing you will be fine. However are a couple of lengths practicing this way with breathing ladders it will become far easier to do this way and a better rhythm for you to maintain. But play around and find what works for you without making you out of breath.
Channel has great useful content but the video thumbnails block the useful information....so no point in watching more.
Thank you so much for the feedback we will try to change this. We are glad you like the videos and are finding them useful and hope that once we fix the thumbnails it will be better.
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great drill! thanks for sharing
You are most welcome. So glad the drills can help. Many more to come 😁
I have always breathed at my right side, but in order to balance out my stroke I am trying to incorporate leftside breathing. I had trouble finding the right drills, but then all of a sudden this video showed up on my home page, and I must say, these drills have helped tremendously. I will definitely keep them in rotation the upcoming months. Thanks!
Wow, I am so pleased that you are finding these drills helpful. Thank you for commenting and giving feedback.We will always have a side we prefer and that is more dominant however we should continue to keep working both sides in order to get an even balance in our stroke. I will post some more videos on the timing of breathing and what approach you can try as this can also result in reasons why we struggle to breathe.
Hi @otto3 I have uploaded two new videos on breathing. This might be helpful to you and you might be able to get that bilateral breathing. Let me know if its beneficial :)