5 Pro Tips To Swim Faster With Lucy Charles
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2018
- Swimming may be your strongest discipline or it may be your weakest. Either way, we're all searching for ways to swim faster. So we've got the help of uber swimmer Lucy Charles and here are her top 5 tips to swimming faster.
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Lucy: So my first tip that I'm going to talk about is the catch, which is, basically, the front end of your stroke. And a lot of people, when you say catch, they're like what do you mean by catch. Basically, it is the front end of your stroke. You want to anchor it, you want to catch the water and you want to feel the water. And the main thing is really to be more efficient, so the more water your can catch, the easier you're going to get through the water and the faster you're going to move through it.
My next tip is structured swim sessions. I think if you get in and you haven't got a plan and you're just floating up and down aimlessly, one, it's going to be really boring and you're also not going to get a lot from it. So if you've got a plan when you get in, you're going to get tonnes more from the session, and it's actually going to be way more enjoyable.
Up next, I want to talk about arm rate, which is, basically, your cadence with your stroke. And for Triathlon in open water, a high cadence stroke rate often works a lot better, and I'm very lucky in that, even when I was a poor swimmer, I had quite a high cadence stroke rate. Well, if you compare me to my other half, Reese, he had quite a long, slow stroke rate, and he was always much faster than me in the pool, but when we went over to open water, he often struggled. So he's actually had to adapt his stroke rate now to a high cadence, especially for open water. Particularly, if it's really choppy in the water, it actually helps a lot more to have high cadence because you don't have to fight with the waves.
Then it's bilateral breathing, which basically means being able to breath to both sides. And when I was a swimmer, I actually only breathed to the right hand side because I was a lot faster like that. And when I moved into triathlon, I actually found I had a lot of issues and some injuries from bike and run because I was so imbalanced from only rotating to that direction. So, in that respect, I would definitely say you should bilaterally breathe, but also in open water, you need to see what is going on on both sides of you. So yeah, I'd definitely say get in the pool and breathe to both sides.
My final tip is speed work, and you may think this sounds pretty crazy because the distance I'm doing is an Iron Man, and it's very much endurance, but I definitely wouldn't neglect the speed work, you want to make sure you've got that initial speed to break out at the start, and then if somebody's going to surge in the swim, you want to make sure you've got that speed to be able to react.
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Which of these tips do you think will make the biggest improvement to your swimming? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below 👇
Global Triathlon Network skulling. heres to speeding up my 100m
For me it’s increasing my cadence or turnover. I tend to glide so I need to work on that.
They are all great tips to be honest! I just think this one for me in particular will help me most.
Great vid! Thanks
For me, increase cadence was the first breakthrough I had, the second was to extend well for the catch which helps body rotation, which made me use my main body muscles instead of my biceps, so I don't get tired anymore
Easy way to swim faster: put your swimming glasses under your swimming cap. They always told me it would help, so I guess it is? It is probably more waterodynamic(I don't know, but aerodynamic, but then in water?). What they also told me back in the day when I was a swimmer, was to keep your pinkie finger a little bit open, so some water can flow trough. Don't keep it open by 5cm or so, but 0.5-1cm, I don't know if it really helps, but you might want to try it.
Jarne De Prins waterodynamic 😂 you were looking for hydrodynamic ☺️. Goggles under the cap are just a safety measure for them not to slip off when fighting others in the water? I’ve always had the pinky a little bit open too, even in my competition years. Still swim like that. The thing with tri swimming is that’s in open water, which is a completely different discipline to pool swimming, so a few alterations to technique need to be made, such as higher cadence. I too glide in the pool at about 20-22 strokes per 50m lap but that doesn’t really translate to open water.
get u a guy that looks at u the way mark looks at lucy
megino._ i lol. Dang she’s married. He should’ve looked a bit more at the camera instead of her.
Very beautiful girl :)
Didn’t seem any different than normal. He always gives people the boyfriend stare. Some guys are just like that... And as a woman, I’m never opposed 😂
"And if you compare me to my other half, Reece"
*Mark dies inside*
So true!!! LOL.
that casual "i'm lucky to have one at home"
Basically, "not to brag but I have one at home."
lol I just went past both
i know
@Can Kaya where in Egypt?
I wish I had one
I love everything about trialthlon besides running and swimming.
Transitions can be fun...
😂
Hmmmm..I think cycling might be your sport!
Subscribe GCN😂
Put that on a t-shirt.
I’m so addicted to this freaking channel... I have the body of Yoda, but when swimming I’m free! So this channel has really upped my game and I can now out swim everyone I know! THANK YOU ALL!!! And a happier new year! 🎊
Seriously, her catch is so fascinating to watch! Love her technique
More Lucy please! So cool that the pros are involved.
Thank you GTN, Mark... I am 38 and recently started training for triathlon mainly for fitness reasons. You guys are doing a fab job getting people fit and healthy. All the best to your entire team.
Best video yet! Love Lucy's expertise and Mark's interview skills to help fully explain the ideas. More of this format please
Yay! More Lucy Charles content please!
yes please ! She’s such an inspiring athlete.
S I M P
Good vid, Mark does a good job of ensuring Lucy expands on her tips.
I love Lucy and love to see her sharing things!
egbourgeois13 ohhh things.. Not thighs 🤔😊
Very informative, thank you.
She was so fast specially swimming part when I was watching her in Ironman Kona 2017!!
So fast! Lucy is widely considered one of the best swimmers in Ironman triathlon, good presenter too 👍
This was super helpful to me! Lucy is awesome btw
Aww... her smile is so adorable.. 😍
Gay
I know you are, dick.
Great tips from Lucy, especially to get a video. She is right on about thinking you're doing it right, but the video doesn't lie. Mark does a fine job on getting Lucy to expand on her tips. Good stuff with these videos with elites, GTN rules! The best triathlon youtube out there.
Barry Field thanks Barry! Glad you’re enjoying the videos
I hope I can find a practical way to do a video one day - but we're not allowed to film at the local pool, and not only is that a common policy here in Denmark, but there's not that many pools at this latitude. Perhaps I'll have to sign up to a private swimming event or team or something.
Thank You for the tips Lucy Charles
Great tips 👍 more of this stuff please
My endless pool is the rip tide in the ocean. This is a good video
If you don't have a swimming background, and many Triathletes do not, you should see if there is a Masters swim team in your area. The quality of coaches for Masters teams will vary a lot, but if the team is fairly stable and has more than 10 or so people then it likely has someone on deck who is a decent coach. Teams with poor coaching tend to fall apart pretty quickly. If you can't find one, look for year round teams (ages 6 - 18). Obviously you can't swim with them, but very often the assistant coaches will do coaching on the side and they may be a less expensive way to get in some focused stroke technique work. I haven't met a coach yet who will turn down some side work as long as they don't feel their time is being wasted.
Have your spouse/significant other/friend video you, and since many phones are water resistant, you can get video under water. No endless pool + mirror or coach required.
Drills are very helpful, but you need to know which ones to do, when to do them, and how often per practice/week to do them. If you overdo it or do them incorrectly, you can end up worse off than if you hadn't done them at all. Being told, "Do drills to improve your catch" or "Keep your elbows high" or whatever the case may be doesn't mean YOU should be doing them, or that there aren't other issues with your stroke that should be sorted out first.
Don't rely on fins, paddles, bouys, or boards. They all have their time and place, but if they are overused they become a crutch. Kicks without a board are fantastic for core strength. Same for pulls without bouys.
Don't rely on only swimming freestyle. Breaststroke is extremely useful. Backstroke kicks (without fins or a board) are excellent for overall endurance. Butterfly for strength and endurance. Basically, don't just roll up, swim a ton of freestyle and be like, "1 and done!" because you're doing yourself a disservice.
Lovely. Great tips
very informative thanks, just taken up tri from a cycling TT background....loving all your videos. Keep them coming,.....thank you
Thank you Alan!
Brilliant, both of you, really good. Keep it up. Ta!!!!!
Helped a lotttt😍😍
I have learnt how to swim and float by myself so I’m looking how to improve
Just getting into running tris at 37...also just fell in love with Lucy Charles! Global Tri Network...you’re OK. :-)
Yes! More Lucy!
GTN, thanks for the great interview. The tips are obviously rock solid from such a superstar swimmer. One suggestion I have is to create a video that can help triathletes with something many of us don't get to practice often and that is how to start effectively from the beach into breaking waves. I've been lucky to have lots of experience with this, but it never ceases to amaze me that in a 10person wave start, after the first wave I'm on my own as the others tried to jump over a wave and got rolled back. Triathletes really need help with this!
she a "superstar" swimmer? been swimming competitively for 7 years now never heard of her before tho
Thanks for the tips! We'd love to see more about swimming in the open water, which brings many unique challenges to swimmers.
Thanks
Agree with you Lucy ! Video is so important to see how we swim and be aware of our mistakes
swimming f-a-s-t-a!!!
I’m doing a swimming competiotion soon. Wish me luck! 🦄😃
Rebecca Beeney How was it? 🙂
How was it? I have one today
@@JuiceisGood how was it?
Its called a meet
Vielen Dank
And endless pool with a mirror on the bottom? Yeah, ok I'll buy one.
Anything else? No.
Ok, just the pool then?
I’ve never seen a pool with a mirror. That sounds cool!
Are you sure you wouldn't like a coach with that, sir?
I highly recommend ro broadend your package sir. So your package consist of an endless mirror pool, a coach, a dietician, fysiotherapist and a you might need a sponsor as well
Great video , thanks for the tips. One question though, the pool is fabulous where did the setting take place?
Olivier Van Parys we were in Lanzarote. It’s the Occidental Lanzarote Mar hotel
Great swimmer and beautiful person😁
These helped me soooo much! I bet I'll make the swim team! 😀
Great stuff!
a year has passed did you make it?
its hard for me to do bilateral breathing 😣 im more on right side breathing
I really struggle with breathing to my left, normally in open water every 2 breaths I throw my head up quickly. But this has helped greatly :)
Question for Lucy: you say increase cadence, but how can you do this keeping the power low? On the bike we can use gears, in the water, how do we reduce the gearing? For me, increasing cadence swimming just feels like sprinting and im done after 100m
Better fitness and some weight training would help. Practice with a metronome under your swim cap.
I’m a huge fan of hers
3:56 "do half a length sptinting" - it means half a length of the stroke, with accent on cathing, not ending?
I was just watching this because I’m competing in freestyle like after an hour and want to win
Mood
ThinkC21 me too!!! 😭
Vanesa Orozco no worries, u can do it, what helped me win was closing your palm or hand to swipe more water so u go faster
did you win
Why did you loose ?
On the beautyfull IJsland Lanzarote, costa Tequise. Nice movie, going there in 4 weeks
Glad to hear working on the weaker side doesn't have to make it as strong as the strong side. Probably put a bit too much work onto it myself from the sounds of things.
I notice Lucy was outside curious to the water temp in the pool, and I swim indoors, and the water is between 83.8 and 84.4 wonder what Lucy would do in a warm water pool as far s workouts ?
Isn't being able to do high cadence (while keeping form) a total function of fitness level?
Catch 22 for triathlon is that swimming is the hardest part for making improvements. Learning proper technique and adapt it to your skills and physionony take a couple of years to master, with experienced coach. Lucy is a former competitive swimmer and she knows that very well. .
Swimming has always been in my family and is has triathalons. My mom was in the junior olympics and she hasn’t really swam in a while and has gotten just a little out of shape, but my aunt still swims and is a swim coaches and does triathalons often. I feel worried because I’m starting a swim team for the first time (I’m in 7th grade 💀) even though I’ve been swimming my whole life I’ve never really done it competitively and I’m also in track/cross country but I can hardly run 2 miles. Biking well I’ve been doing that since I got on 2 wheels. Sooo, I’m still worried about my first swim team I feel like I’m starting too late. Erm
Where are they? Looks nice.
I swim with long slow powerful-ish strokes. If I were to increase my cadence, would that mean my stroke would have to become less "efficient" (pushing less water with less force) in order for me to be able to sustain the effort?
I have the exact same question. Did you find an answer?
For the 50m sets, how much rest between each 50m?
My coach? My endless pool at home?? Got any tips for real people?
A big note of envy there. That kind of thinking poisons your mind.
She had a lot of other great hints and tips. You don't have to implement them all. But they can widen your perspective, maybe give you some ideas, if you can get past the envy.
Don't have an endless pool or a coach? Get your mother or your sister to video you swimming in a regular pool. Hey, you're lucky you have a pool to swim in.
@@JStephs1950 It was a joke.
@@abox6989 Your comment brings up a point of Netiquette: If you're making a joke, end it with some indication that it IS a joke, like a smiley face :-). Even among English-speaking countries, there are so many cultural differences that it's difficult, sometimes impossible to read behind the lines.
It didn't sound like a joke to me. It sounded like Dan Johnson was ridiculing the speaker for not understanding the circumstances of most people, when he apparently has no knowledge of what she went through to get to where she is. Maybe she was born rich. Or maybe she was born poor and worked really hard all her life so that she could own a continuous pool. Most of the competitive swimmers I've known and the ones I've read about have had schedules which most people could never follow, because they take so much dedication, effort and sacrifice.
The comment is not something anyone with any real knowledge about competitive swimming would ever make fun of. It reeks of ignorance and having a mean-spirit. Even if with smiley-face, it's unworthy.
@@JStephs1950 Most people find smileys annoying and consider it a sign of degeneracy.
:-)
A Box degeneracy?
I don’t believe that.
It!s simply a matter of making intent clear. And emojis are just one way of making yourself understood. A better way is to write clearly and say what you actually mean, instead of writing ambiguous or easily misunderstood statements. Emojis are a quick shorthand, but if you don’t care about being clear or aren’t able to write clearly, then you’ll have to become inured to being misunderstood and probably laughed at or derided for being an asshole, even if you never intended that.
*Good thing I have a pool and lane ropes at home to practice!!*
NXT Taffy i feel like there was sarcasm in this post 😂
Can anyone please help? I breathe every 3 strokes (bilateral). Do you people think this breathing pattern could cause me issues on long swims, eg from getting a breath not frequently enough?
What is the best cadence? And how to improve swim cadence?
Shes Mesmeriziing!
Lucy, I want to be train by you!! You are The number one!!
Well done Lucy.
when breathing in side ways the water enters the mouth and the nose how do you prevent that from happening???
She's a real athlete.
Catch!!!
Need to start implementing bilateral breathing!!!!
Where are they?
I think our 2 new presenters need to be Mark Buckingham and Lucy Charles, they are both naturals!
(Not getting rid of the current mark of heather of course, you can have more than two presenters. Just look at gcn or gmbn)
She rocks
Serious question... Do long fingernails help with the stroke?
Swimming with a wetsuit in a pool, is it advisable? I have to get used to swimming with a wetsuit and would like to know if I can use a wetsuit in one of my swimming sessions at an indoor heated pool? We have ows but limited with time, temp and weather. Thanks for the tips Lucy Charles and GTN.
Yes! It is very recomended to start using your wet suit 1 week before a race
The catch
Lucy charles 😍😍😍
It'd be useful to know exactly how long the rest should be between each 50M sprint set. The less rest, the more likely this is going to be a threshold aerobic session (which I think is what she's doing), and not an anaerobic session. Ie 50M sprints with only 10sec rest is still a kind of CSS training.
Lucy Charles! 😍😍
Beautiful triathlete 😍 an inspo for girls like me. :)
normally what is the rest in between each 50m
for doing 30x50m
Gary Yeung we normally get 30 seconds in between 50’s if they’re sprints
Sees new Sage Canaday video in feed, watches Lucy Charles on GTN first 🤘
Lol I'm having a swimming gala soon so I'm here just binge watching all swimming videos but not actually swimming. MY LIFEEEE. And also I'm 13 year old and my 50m butterfly is 56 seconds is that slow or fast?
I'm 69 years old and my 50 meter fly is about 60 seconds, without really trying hard. I don't really do a competitive stroke.
It's a year later, so if you've improved a lot, ignore my advice here:
Sounds to me like you need some coaching on technique. If you don't have a coach, first have a look at the youtube videos on "The Shaw way to fly", which teaches you how to relax while doing the fly. Once you get down the technique for a relaxed fly, try looking up some videos on competitive fly, like the Michael Phelps fly - although he breathes every stroke, unlike many fly swimmers, who breathe every other stroke.
Something you're doing or not doing is really getting in the way of your stroke. You should be swimming a lot faster - unless you're just starting out. At 13, you may not have had the muscle mass needed for a good strong fly. A year later now, and if you've kept up your swimming, you may be a lot stronger now.
What location is this? Looks like Lanza but not la santa
Benjamin Bird t
Top tip for swimming. Be built like a piece of A4 paper eg. Lucy
Damn. Good set of shoulders doesnt seem to hurt either...:-)
Wait quick question what is an endless pool?
5:13 thats how i swim lmao. dude in the back
Pressed "like" even before Lucy started talking!
(Edit at the end of the video): Need "like so much" button!
LisaPet haha I’ll suggest it to TH-cam
en español por favor
Shes so pretty.
She's a married man now
MrLongshot26 “man”
You alright?
Remember it’s 2019 you never know.
Animegeek17 it’s 2020
She and many of the pros kick quite a bit more than typical triathletes. Obviously this helps their time but keep in mind these are elite level triathletes and this is only possible at such high cadences because they have a mind blowing amount of endurance and fitness. I am a very competitive age grouper and I can and have done iron man distances but for me to kick as much as she is kicking here I would be gone in 500-700 meters!.. just completely demolished.
I am aware that I tend to employ one whip kick per arm stroke typically at long distances (not in my shorter speed work obviously) therefore not consuming the oxygen needed to have a high kick rate beyond 700 meters and also saving my legs for the bike and run. These elites are absolutely amazing like on a lever that most cannot wrap their heads around and they seem to have an endless amount of leg endurance and an unreal Vo2max.
Hello
beautiful creature.
You aren’t supposed to keep your fingers closed while swimming, you want them partially open so when you pull it creates a web of water in between your fingers and it’ll make you swim easier.
Lucy Charles 😍
What I noticed in the local pools is that people just jump in and splash around. No technique, no improvements, hips dropping, hips wiggling, breathing straight up, rigid kicks... people should focus on some drills if they’d want to swim faster. 200 strokes per lap in a 50m pool will only exhaust you and you won’t get anywhere.
Sooooo, what's the catch?
Hahahah high Cadence 😆
hard enough to find a Cadence at all around my part of the world, let alone a high one.
I love swimming and while in practice, I feel so terrible because I’m the slowest, I’m always behind. Everyone is done and I’m still swimming and finishing the practice. It sucks 😔
you just need to put on the work to swim faster
Getting really nervous for my lifeguard assessment test tomorrow
Good luck
@@charliewalker9148 Thank you very much. It's been pushed forward to the 29th now.
Only watching because I have an interview with YMCA for the job as life guard
Was that a salt water pool? Doesn’t chlorine kill the wetsuits and void the warranty?
She is sponsored, so she probably doesn't need to worry about warranty or chlorine harming the wetsuit..
Yes it is salt water, nice for buoyancy too!
Andreas Krotki true but if it would have been a regular pool (it wasn’t) it sends the wrong idea to people who aren’t.
mrgq1979 that's the issue with a lot of the pros' tips..
All are important ;)
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