Becoming An Ironman: 6 Drills To Swim Faster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video, I share six drills to swim faster. Whether you are a beginner swimmer or a seasoned swimmer, these six drills are simple exercises on how to swim faster. No matter if you are training for a race competition, open water (long distance) swim (Ironman) or simply enjoy your pool swims, these six drills will improve your swimming technique and get you more efficient and faster in the water. Your swim will become effortless.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - #1 Catch-Up Drill
00:48 - #2 Single Arm Drill
01:10 - #3 Zipper Drill
01:32 - #4 Fingertip Drag
01:51 - #5 3-3-3 Drill
02:17 - #6 Speed Drills
02:56 - #7 Summary
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Looks great 😍 thank you 🙏I will try them all💪
That’s awesome! Let me know how it went!
Really helpful drills summed up into one video! Thank you.
Happy to help Georgiem. Which drill do you find particularly most helpful for your training?
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Great tips! We do almost all of these in our group swims with our triathlon club.
Awesome! Which is your favorite to perform? And which drill is missing?
@@CuriousMick One of my favorite ones that helps you make sure all parts of the stroke are efficient is doing a 50 or 100 with your paddles upside down. It really makes sure you have an efficient catch and finish. My favorite is fingertip drag.
I do catch up drill daily, and I use a snorkel. For me, it is an exercise to focus on body rotation and full extension and full length pull. One note here that no one seems to realize, well, few anyway, note how when you initiate the pull, the arm gets to about 45 degrees and then the same side leg kicks down/front side. Shoulders and pulling arm anchor the body rotation. It is impossible for the lower body to anchor the rotation.
Good point. Thanks for sharing! What are you training for? Also Ironman?
I am a swimmer only now days. Never got into running much, other than for conditioning. I had both hips and one knee replaced after years of doing concrete work. I HAVE to exercise.... A mental health break. Favorite stroke is the old over arm side stroke which no one swims any more. I swim some freestyle and back stroke, but no breast stroke. My feet just won't turn out that way. 74 years old later this year.
Great drills. I have a hard time understanding drills, for example in the Zipper drill you thumb will have to touch the side of the body upwards. However is the point of the drill is to make the body adapt to this movement naturally. In other words during race should my thumb be touch my body as in the drill?
Hi Adam. Great question.
The zipper drill is primarily used as a technique to focus on high elbow recovery. You do not have to touch your side with your thumb during the race, but see it more as a mental note to focus on high elbow.
The same goes for the catch-up freestyle. During the race, you do not strictly have to wait until your hands touch, but it is again a mental note to hold your arm extended in front and only start the pull once your other arm is catching up.
@@CuriousMick 🙏🙏🙏
These drills actually works! Did paddle/pullbouy drills for almost 4 months over the winter and once I took them off, my speed have increased considerably😊 from 2:10-2:20/100m to 1:30- 1:50/100m, amazing drills in one video, I'll try some of these drills next time I get in the pool, thanks
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how many kilometers should one swim per week to improve form?
Hi Shurrrig. Great question. Would recommend to focus on consistency. You will definitely see more gains if you consistently swim every week with a focus on improvement.
One tip: Swim each session with these 6 drills in your warm-up swims, and focus on one particularly aspect of the swim for a few weeks in the cooldown swims. Say, week 1 to 4 on catch, week 5 to 8 on pull, week 8 to 12 on exit and recovery. Or wherever you feel least strong. In the end, it is a sum-game of consistency over a longer period of time rather than kilometers.
Hope it helps. Where do you feel least strong in your swim right now?
@@CuriousMick Hi thank you for elaborting! This sounds like something i could incorporate in my swims!
At the moment i struggle to maintain fitness. Ive worked for many years on technique for every single aspect of the body, with rotation and lat engagement being the most recent. I still struggle to maintain core and bum cheeks stability , i just cannot hold the stability in there for much longer than say 200-300m and when i swim longer i swimply forget about engaging them.. i want to move on to more strength training maybe that'll help! thanks again