Activating the glutes and hams means they need to be adequately firing and have functional ROM. Be sure that DEEP extensive stretching is not just coming from a foam roller, but from effective techniques to not create hypertonic glutes after one or two practices. Multitudes of swimmers start from a dysfunctional hip imbalance developed as a compensatory solution to weak and unstable hip joints (especially when young). Then you'll get more technique correction results.
I've told too many swimming teachers that something had to be wrong with my technic. You just nailed it. I don't even have to try to know that's the problem. And BTW, I'm a mountain biker.
I took swimming lessons as a kid, and the teacher emphasized kicking from the hips instead of the knees. This video explains what the teacher was trying to explain.
Yes, our instructor always told us to keep our hips up at the surface in backstroke, or our butt at the surface in freestyle. I always thought it was to help us keep afloat better, but b turns out they were after this kick fix.
This is the best explained and effective advice concerning the sinking legs problem. I came to the same solution after a long time of trial and error. Another way to articulate the solution is imagine the surface of the water as wall. When standing against the wall the body needs to engage the core to make sure the upper back, the butt and the back of the feet touch the wall. This in effect says a good standing posture means good swimming posture too.
This was the right video at the right time for me. I am a pretty slow lap swimmer, for I think exactly this reason. Glutes and back side of legs are not areas I am normally very aware of. A few comments have asked what it means to 'activate' to me the answer is, to start with at least, simply keeping those areas of the body in mind for a bit while you swim. Just doing that, without necessarily 'engaging', helps. Then once you develop an awareness of their very existence, you can gently engage, or activate, and with a bit of time notice a difference. I shaved 4 mins off my mile time today thanks to getting more horizontal. Thanks for this, good work.
The other “half” of the solution to sinking knees or legs is activating your core. Activate your core by Raising your bellybutton towards the surface and you will see an immediate change in your body’s position in relation to the waters surface.
I agree with that, most of the leg work will start from the core. Also, you should see your legs as fins (smooth bending and coordination), after all you are not on the ground
@@user-fq3lk5se6p I really need someone to teach me. I can swim and probably enough to get myself out of trouble but I really want to be able to do this long, lazy swim that you can go for miles on
It looks effortless because they probably trained for hours on how to perfect their techniques. This is only the end result, and no doubt with practice you can swim as "effortlessly" as they do as well. I remember struggling so much with my kicks (though that was with breaststroke) and being amazed at how easy the coaches could do it, but after a lot of practice, I was able to kick well and now it's almost muscle memory. I believe in you, you can do it!!
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I tried this today in training. It was the best tip ever, I never felt so high in the water.
Learning how to swim as a new swimmer but picked it up almost effortlessly once I realised that head placement, breathing, CORE engagement with GLUTE activation in tandem makes swimming easy was a God send…all the techniques I use when training clients and myself as a personal trainer. Best vid for individuals who find it difficult to keep legs high.
The least amount of effort is only kicking gently, with the only real flexing joint being the ankle. Using the feet like flippers. Pointing the toes, keeping the streamlined shape through the hips and knees. As an Aussie, our best swimmers seem to move through water almost lazily. Only a few kicks per stroke of the arms. The key is not having your legs fighting against your arms but gently working in unison with them.
I imagine my body like a fish, nothing big or contradictory to the flow of water. It felt weird at first as if I wasn’t exercising hard. I guess this is why swimming is such a good reset or cross training. I had to let go of dry land movement to be able to work with water.
Interesting! This is exactly the same in horseback riding. It gives a lot more stability and longer feeling to the legs together with the core muscles… I teach this everyday to my students and the results are almost immediate. This video might help me explain better the reason “why” and the examples you showed were also very clear. Thank you!
Damn I almost hypnotized looking how perfect you swim. My parents never had any time to learn me (they can't swim too), I also never swam in my school. So here I am, 30 years old trying to learn basics. It's very difficult for me because I'm falling down like a rock. I hope your technique will help me a bit. Greetings.
I watched this last night and couldn’t wait to try it in the pool today. I felt so much faster and swimming felt so much easier. I only learned to swim last summer, and I appreciate all these tips. Thank you.
I’m just an age group coach In my experience, I gave couple of glute activation exercises with free pull and swim; the results were ok But when I paired plank, side plank with free pull (pull boy on ankles), the results were actually amazing with really high body position
Can you explain the plank and side plank in the water exercises a bit more in detail? A bit unsure how to do those in the water, or maybe the plank/side plank are dry land exercises? I already do a small exercise with a pull buoy between the ankles and freestyle pull for core activation and balance.
@@henriki8015 I'm still developing and refining it but. What I do is 10 sec of plank and 10 sec of side plank (each side) and immediately after finishing the plank jump in the pool and do 50m pull with pull boy in ankle and after pull do 50m swim where you visualize your feet being up on the surface. Repeat that 6 times or more. I usually give this set in warm up. typically you'll get results after 3 weeks. Yes it's mix of dryland and drills and swim.
But the pullboy remedies the lacking glute/hamstring activation, so it is not surprising that you get more success with the planks + pullboy. I didn't know I had hamstrings until I did kettlebell swings. So I can recommend the swings for finding and training them.
Swimming, yoga, cycling. Weight training will be added as I age. But, for now those three work very well. First off I'm not a recreational cyclist. Cycling for me is so I can cut my car usage. Utility cyclist. Takes me 10 weeks before refilling. Yoga is 5-6 times weekly as my partner is a yoga teacher and I go to all her classes. Swimming is between 80 to 120 laps 3x per week. A combination of three breast stoke warm ups. Then 15 freestyle. Then one breaststroke. 15 freestyle. One breaststroke, etc. Taught myself 3 count strokes to breathe from both sides. My swimming has improved greatly over the years from videos, tips from lifeguards, other swimmers and my own body awareness. Still can't do a flip turn, but thats ok. lol These videos are the best. I've picked up a few things and had alot confirmed, too. If you haven't subscribed? Do it. You won't be sorry. Cheers.
I didn't even knew this. I started learning swimming 2 days ago and i have severe aquaphobia. I saw olympic gold medalist swim in a documentary for in his home swimming pool and one thing i noticed was he barely bent his knees. Almost like his legs were straight and second thing i noticed was he didn't splash water with his hands. It was like he is stretching in water and he just looked so effortless. I just hope maybe i can swim like that. Not fast or anything just the smoothness of the way he swam.
Your video is timely. I had started to work on this problem just before our city lock-down, and hadn't actually solved it. Pools are still under lock-down. But I'm eager to work on glute and hamstring dryland as you suggest. Hope to see improvement when I can return to the pool. Thanks.
This is good. I knew not to drop my knees, I’ve swam thousands of miles, but I want to see if I can improve that little bit more. The next time I swim is Wednesday.
I had accidentally solved this problem in the past. I realized my arms were giving me the bulk of the propulsion and decided to focus on improving my arm strokes, and basically swimming without kicking. At first my knees fell, and i then focused to kick just enough to stay afloat. Did wonders for me in the long term, but i might have just been lucky
I have weak glutes and hamstrings, due to anterior pelvic tilt and constant sitting, resulting in very tight hip flexors. This video made me look into strengthening my glutes and hamstrings with weight lifting. Stretches for improved flexibility and work on joint mobility.
I'm a child swimmer from Indonesia, very good video, I don't know or maybe I'm too early to follow the advice in this video, but I'm sure it will be useful for me, thank you
Working on the "hollow body" abs exercise, gluteus bridge and stretching the quads(foot to the glute) in a lunge position like footballers do will help any amateur swimmer to solve that issue.
I swam competitively (somewhat pooly, lol) in high school. I wish I had these tips about 40 years ago! Very well explained from the perspective of reducing drag. 😄👍✌
I tried this today and it works. My speed increased and number of strokes per length decreased. Sometimes my core was too loose (especially when breathing) and my legs were too tight - I need to practice more and find the balance. Thanks again. 🙂
I had a groin pain and my physio strengthened the glutes and i felt better. Since i couldn't run or walk i took to the pool for cardio. Although my technique is crappy my glutes strengthened and my groin pain less frequent. I swim often now and I dont feel the groin pain day to day, only at the end of say 15km hike.
Buddy! Love your videos, especially tricks for dry workouts or which muscle to activate. Have been swimming almost 5 times a week for last 7 years. And always used to fight with water because of legs sinking 🤬. Will try glutes activation 👍🏻
As a former professional swimming athlete, I can tell ya this video is quite accurate. We dont really good at explain how to swim faster, its just in our blood.
Wow what a brilliantly produced video. Have no idea what my legs are doing but i try to push my chest down to lift my legs up. I'll start working on my hip flexor mobility . Think my legs usually just trail behind me anyway. I can't do a fast kick
Can you make some videos on how to tread water? egg beater kick is very difficult for begginers is there any other way that can keep you vertical in water for 5 minutes with minimal effort?
I had the same issue as a swimming learner. my lower body tends to sink quicker and I find myself struggling to maintain my position of paddling stronger and rotate my body . I end up with hung strings exhausted or cramps .
Finally got the tip I needed. Thanks. The another problem I face is timing the breathing. I used to hold my breath. (Mainly due to improper technique, I would sink) I could not tell whether any changes I made with my technique made any difference or not. Since I have respiratory problem, I feel more comfortable with backstroke.
You should be breathing out in the water between breaths (blowing bubbles) also when you first starts swimming it's totally normal to have to take multiple breaths at a time until you build up your breath control and swimming efficiency I would just work on sidekick (with mouth out of the water, Google it) to practice frontcrawl breathing, then when you need to breathe when swimming on your front you turn to sidekick, gradually you reduce your breathing down so that you only take 1 breath and only stay in sidekick for a second Normally swimmers breath every 3 strokes in front crawl
Like HK Tang, I also came to this same solution very recently through trial and error and it made the biggest difference of anything else I’ve tried. I would just add that it can feel tiring at first. I like the suggestion to try it at 100% effort for 1-2 lengths, then back off gradually to find the optimal degree of glute engagement. Looking forward to trying that.
This raises a question for me. You have to flex a bit at the hip in order to get the lower leg into a slight angle so you can get some thrust on the front side. Just how much flex at the hip seems to be the question. If every thing is coming from the hip down, with no flexing at the hip, you don't get much thrust, no matter how flexible your ankles are. Surely you don't need as much flex as is used with the dolphin kick. Also, when they say the kick does not come from the knee, that makes me think the comment is aimed for those who try to use a scissor kick, which comes way out to the side. With back stroke, that does come more from the knee, at least as near as I can tell. The problem most have with back stroke flutter kick is they try to do it the same way you do freestyle flutter kick. That is why knees tend to come up out of the water for those learning the back stroke. Heel and lower leg don't create as much drag as your thigh does, so less flexing at the hips, and more flexing at the knee. I never seem to have foot/lower body position problems. Probably from my days as a gymnast where straight body line was essential for doing a hand stand and swinging around the horizontal bar. Suck in your gut like you are trying to put your belly button on your spine... Best advice ever. Primary thing that does is keep your back straight.
I will mention another way to achieve maximum performance. *Try to have your bottom outside the water.* It is difficult in the beginning but when you achieve it (after weeks or months of training, depending your level) you will see how much faster you swim.
My sister was diving athlete with multiple medals. My body was natural born swimmer. My feet is very wide and streamlined. But idk why, I cant swim. Heck cant even keep head above water. Idk why but i cant float on water even if trying
Watched a video of an Olympic swimmer and now I got a bunch of recommendations. I can’t swim and have no desire to learn rn. 🤷🏻♀️ However, by the looks of it, this is a good video. 👏🏻
Once upon a time, when I was in a school swimming competition, I discovered swimming wasn't my thing when for some odd reason I couldn't keep to my lane, swam left across other lanes and smacked my head in the wall. Never tried swimming in front of people ever again lol
I always knew something was off but I thought it could be me. It just doesn't seem I'm getting where I should be with the among lf effort I'm putting in. I have to remmeber this video the next time I go swimming.
How do you stop leg and foot cramps? Every single time I swim I cram in the calves and feet. I workout daily. Swim 2-3 times a week as well. Take multivitamins. Any ideas? Super annoying. Calves cramp so bad they feel like they will rip off.
I can see you stop the leg movement when catching air. I thought the legs should work all the time but when i try it it makes it harder to catch air, the resurfacing for air is shorter when i move my legs constantly. So is it correct to stop the leg movement when breathing?
I remember having problems keeping my legs under the water while snorkeling. Fins don't work very well out of the water. Of course that wasn't a problem while SCUBA diving.
I thought my legs are stiff in free style because my knees don’t bend much. My free style kick is like I shrug my leg one at a time from butt or hip. I did it to conserve energy.
You don't need to use your legs at all. just try to hold them paralel to your body. Use them as a balancing equipment. The force that makes you move forward mostly come from your arms.
I learnt swimming naturally in my village ponds and canals. Seriously I don't know there are technique for a effortless swim. I learnt by directly jumping into water.
I train swimming everyday. Thankfully my coach says that I have a good stream like. And also with the pull boi he gives us 500m aka 20 laps easy. Easy means slow.
I've always used a kickless style of front crawl I was always the fastest swimmer at the inter school swim races when I was younger. recently some famous swimmer uses my style, I'm older it's my style 😎, and I'm like told you to all my friends lol
Didn't learn swimming as a child and I am more into biking and running. And I get tierd just after few laps of swimming. This video is my life story.... Lol. Hope it's end like the video too...
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Activating the glutes and hams means they need to be adequately firing and have functional ROM. Be sure that DEEP extensive stretching is not just coming from a foam roller, but from effective techniques to not create hypertonic glutes after one or two practices. Multitudes of swimmers start from a dysfunctional hip imbalance developed as a compensatory solution to weak and unstable hip joints (especially when young). Then you'll get more technique correction results.
I've told too many swimming teachers that something had to be wrong with my technic. You just nailed it. I don't even have to try to know that's the problem. And BTW, I'm a mountain biker.
Best swimming teacher is a former swimmer who was at least on your level. If he’s not, leave him
Sitting too much makes these muscles too tight and short. So that may be an issue too plus the activation.
The only thing wrong with your "technic" is the "technique" and none have to be your teacher or youtuber to know that.🤗😇
@@ranapratapsingh2116 are u making fun of his typing?
@@ranapratapsingh2116 no one asked to correct him
I took swimming lessons as a kid, and the teacher emphasized kicking from the hips instead of the knees.
This video explains what the teacher was trying to explain.
Yes, our instructor always told us to keep our hips up at the surface in backstroke, or our butt at the surface in freestyle. I always thought it was to help us keep afloat better, but b turns out they were after this kick fix.
That's the way I was taught to swim in high school back in the early 1970's.
I was wondering why I was getting so tired after only 25-50 meters of swimming. Definitely going to practice this a lot thanks!
I thought I needed to run to build up endurance 😂
@@rena1cg yeah I think the same lol
This is the best explained and effective advice concerning the sinking legs problem. I came to the same solution after a long time of trial and error. Another way to articulate the solution is imagine the surface of the water as wall. When standing against the wall the body needs to engage the core to make sure the upper back, the butt and the back of the feet touch the wall. This in effect says a good standing posture means good swimming posture too.
This was the right video at the right time for me. I am a pretty slow lap swimmer, for I think exactly this reason. Glutes and back side of legs are not areas I am normally very aware of. A few comments have asked what it means to 'activate' to me the answer is, to start with at least, simply keeping those areas of the body in mind for a bit while you swim. Just doing that, without necessarily 'engaging', helps. Then once you develop an awareness of their very existence, you can gently engage, or activate, and with a bit of time notice a difference. I shaved 4 mins off my mile time today thanks to getting more horizontal. Thanks for this, good work.
The other “half” of the solution to sinking knees or legs is activating your core. Activate your core by Raising your bellybutton towards the surface and you will see an immediate change in your body’s position in relation to the waters surface.
I agree with that, most of the leg work will start from the core. Also, you should see your legs as fins (smooth bending and coordination), after all you are not on the ground
Ok
What do you mean by "raising your bellybutton towards the surface"? I am trying to envision it to be able to apply it on the next time i swim
@@mennaanwar7684 raise ur belly to the water surface
You are so right!! Thank you for this much needed reminder 😊
This makes me so jealous. I wish I could swim that effortlessly
Swim isn't hard, just need a bit practice
@@user-fq3lk5se6p I really need someone to teach me. I can swim and probably enough to get myself out of trouble but I really want to be able to do this long, lazy swim that you can go for miles on
@@user-fq3lk5se6p true as i’d keep practicing im now able to stay off the water though just like a fish do haha
I just wish I could swim 😅
It looks effortless because they probably trained for hours on how to perfect their techniques. This is only the end result, and no doubt with practice you can swim as "effortlessly" as they do as well. I remember struggling so much with my kicks (though that was with breaststroke) and being amazed at how easy the coaches could do it, but after a lot of practice, I was able to kick well and now it's almost muscle memory. I believe in you, you can do it!!
I tried this today in training. It was the best tip ever, I never felt so high in the water.
Learning how to swim as a new swimmer but picked it up almost effortlessly once I realised that head placement, breathing, CORE engagement with GLUTE activation in tandem makes swimming easy was a God send…all the techniques I use when training clients and myself as a personal trainer. Best vid for individuals who find it difficult to keep legs high.
The least amount of effort is only kicking gently, with the only real flexing joint being the ankle. Using the feet like flippers. Pointing the toes, keeping the streamlined shape through the hips and knees. As an Aussie, our best swimmers seem to move through water almost lazily. Only a few kicks per stroke of the arms. The key is not having your legs fighting against your arms but gently working in unison with them.
I imagine my body like a fish, nothing big or contradictory to the flow of water. It felt weird at first as if I wasn’t exercising hard. I guess this is why swimming is such a good reset or cross training. I had to let go of dry land movement to be able to work with water.
Interesting! This is exactly the same in horseback riding. It gives a lot more stability and longer feeling to the legs together with the core muscles… I teach this everyday to my students and the results are almost immediate.
This video might help me explain better the reason “why” and the examples you showed were also very clear.
Thank you!
Damn I almost hypnotized looking how perfect you swim. My parents never had any time to learn me (they can't swim too), I also never swam in my school. So here I am, 30 years old trying to learn basics. It's very difficult for me because I'm falling down like a rock. I hope your technique will help me a bit. Greetings.
Gotta get learned brah
first learn yo swim
Take some classes. I'm a swim teacher. Classes will help you so much.
Practice Floating on your front and Back!! Relax in the water.🏊♀️
I watched this last night and couldn’t wait to try it in the pool today. I felt so much faster and swimming felt so much easier. I only learned to swim last summer, and I appreciate all these tips. Thank you.
Glad it worked!
I’m just an age group coach
In my experience, I gave couple of glute activation exercises with free pull and swim; the results were ok
But when I paired plank, side plank with free pull (pull boy on ankles), the results were actually amazing with really high body position
thanks for the tip
Can you explain the plank and side plank in the water exercises a bit more in detail? A bit unsure how to do those in the water, or maybe the plank/side plank are dry land exercises? I already do a small exercise with a pull buoy between the ankles and freestyle pull for core activation and balance.
@@henriki8015 I'm still developing and refining it but. What I do is 10 sec of plank and 10 sec of side plank (each side) and immediately after finishing the plank jump in the pool and do 50m pull with pull boy in ankle and after pull do 50m swim where you visualize your feet being up on the surface. Repeat that 6 times or more. I usually give this set in warm up. typically you'll get results after 3 weeks. Yes it's mix of dryland and drills and swim.
@@meghdaniellama1604 Thank you for this super clear and easy to understand explanation. Got to give this a try!
But the pullboy remedies the lacking glute/hamstring activation, so it is not surprising that you get more success with the planks + pullboy.
I didn't know I had hamstrings until I did kettlebell swings. So I can recommend the swings for finding and training them.
I'll try it tomorrow morning when I hit the pool again. Activate glutes - I do a lot of glute/core exercises so it should be easy.
Review??
Omg he died(((
I bet dudes are constantly activating your glutes lol
He is still swimming.
Rick. Rick!!!
Are you there?
Swimming, yoga, cycling. Weight training will be added as I age. But, for now those three work very well. First off I'm not a recreational cyclist. Cycling for me is so I can cut my car usage. Utility cyclist. Takes me 10 weeks before refilling. Yoga is 5-6 times weekly as my partner is a yoga teacher and I go to all her classes. Swimming is between 80 to 120 laps 3x per week. A combination of three breast stoke warm ups. Then 15 freestyle. Then one breaststroke. 15 freestyle. One breaststroke, etc. Taught myself 3 count strokes to breathe from both sides. My swimming has improved greatly over the years from videos, tips from lifeguards, other swimmers and my own body awareness. Still can't do a flip turn, but thats ok. lol
These videos are the best. I've picked up a few things and had alot confirmed, too. If you haven't subscribed? Do it. You won't be sorry. Cheers.
I didn't even knew this. I started learning swimming 2 days ago and i have severe aquaphobia. I saw olympic gold medalist swim in a documentary for in his home swimming pool and one thing i noticed was he barely bent his knees. Almost like his legs were straight and second thing i noticed was he didn't splash water with his hands. It was like he is stretching in water and he just looked so effortless. I just hope maybe i can swim like that. Not fast or anything just the smoothness of the way he swam.
You can do it. It'll take a good bit of practice but you can.
Your video is timely. I had started to work on this problem just before our city lock-down, and hadn't actually solved it. Pools are still under lock-down. But I'm eager to work on glute and hamstring dryland as you suggest. Hope to see improvement when I can return to the pool. Thanks.
Well Done! I have been looking for this explanation and description for a long time …
Niceness can’t wait to watch the next video , thanks for always creating..this is awesome
Thanks for watching!
I have learned a lot from you to coach my daughter. She is quite a good swimmer at 8 years old. Thanks !
This is good. I knew not to drop my knees, I’ve swam thousands of miles, but I want to see if I can improve that little bit more.
The next time I swim is Wednesday.
as an amateur swimmer that was by far the best reccomendation youtube ever gave me, extremely helpful info.
I had accidentally solved this problem in the past. I realized my arms were giving me the bulk of the propulsion and decided to focus on improving my arm strokes, and basically swimming without kicking. At first my knees fell, and i then focused to kick just enough to stay afloat. Did wonders for me in the long term, but i might have just been lucky
I have weak glutes and hamstrings, due to anterior pelvic tilt and constant sitting, resulting in very tight hip flexors. This video made me look into strengthening my glutes and hamstrings with weight lifting. Stretches for improved flexibility and work on joint mobility.
I'm a child swimmer from Indonesia, very good video, I don't know or maybe I'm too early to follow the advice in this video, but I'm sure it will be useful for me, thank you
You're doing a really great job with these videos! I love your approach and instruction. They've been most helpful! ¡Muchas gracias, señores!
Working on the "hollow body" abs exercise, gluteus bridge and stretching the quads(foot to the glute) in a lunge position like footballers do will help any amateur swimmer to solve that issue.
Whenever I try to breath sideways I feel like drowning how do I fix this?
I swam competitively (somewhat pooly, lol) in high school. I wish I had these tips about 40 years ago! Very well explained from the perspective of reducing drag. 😄👍✌
My main problem - sinking legs. 🙂 I'll work on my glutes tomorrow. Thank you!
I tried this today and it works. My speed increased and number of strokes per length decreased. Sometimes my core was too loose (especially when breathing) and my legs were too tight - I need to practice more and find the balance. Thanks again. 🙂
I had a groin pain and my physio strengthened the glutes and i felt better. Since i couldn't run or walk i took to the pool for cardio. Although my technique is crappy my glutes strengthened and my groin pain less frequent. I swim often now and I dont feel the groin pain day to day, only at the end of say 15km hike.
Brilliant explanation. Thank you! 💖🙏🏾💖🙏🏾💖💖
Buddy! Love your videos, especially tricks for dry workouts or which muscle to activate. Have been swimming almost 5 times a week for last 7 years. And always used to fight with water because of legs sinking 🤬. Will try glutes activation 👍🏻
So many swimming videos said there should be micro bend in leg when flutter kicking , but in this video the legs are completely straight.
Thank you! This video really helped to improve my swiming!
As a former professional swimming athlete, I can tell ya this video is quite accurate.
We dont really good at explain how to swim faster, its just in our blood.
Thank 😊 you. I just started making the same mistakes, I wish I could fix this .
Wow what a brilliantly produced video. Have no idea what my legs are doing but i try to push my chest down to lift my legs up. I'll start working on my hip flexor mobility . Think my legs usually just trail behind me anyway. I can't do a fast kick
Superbly explained by you. Thanks 😊
Can you make some videos on how to tread water? egg beater kick is very difficult for begginers is there any other way that can keep you vertical in water for 5 minutes with minimal effort?
I had the same issue as a swimming learner. my lower body tends to sink quicker and I find myself struggling to maintain my position of paddling stronger and rotate my body . I end up with hung strings exhausted or cramps .
Thank you..I always felt very tiring after 1 lap as I used to bend my knee...now I will use your technic 👍
This is not to flatter you but you make the best swimming videos on the net.
in my opinion obviously..
Thank you ohhh so very much!!
This is huge information!! 😊
Finally got the tip I needed. Thanks.
The another problem I face is timing the breathing. I used to hold my breath. (Mainly due to improper technique, I would sink) I could not tell whether any changes I made with my technique made any difference or not.
Since I have respiratory problem, I feel more comfortable with backstroke.
You should be breathing out in the water between breaths (blowing bubbles) also when you first starts swimming it's totally normal to have to take multiple breaths at a time until you build up your breath control and swimming efficiency
I would just work on sidekick (with mouth out of the water, Google it) to practice frontcrawl breathing, then when you need to breathe when swimming on your front you turn to sidekick, gradually you reduce your breathing down so that you only take 1 breath and only stay in sidekick for a second
Normally swimmers breath every 3 strokes in front crawl
@@bungaTV3831 Thanks for the advice.👍
What is activate glute means?
Great video! Kudos; question to y’all how to fit swimming goggles? Do they all leak which ones are best? Thank you
Like HK Tang, I also came to this same solution very recently through trial and error and it made the biggest difference of anything else I’ve tried. I would just add that it can feel tiring at first. I like the suggestion to try it at 100% effort for 1-2 lengths, then back off gradually to find the optimal degree of glute engagement. Looking forward to trying that.
Always something new to learn. Thanks SNT!
If possible please also make an informative video on how to run/sprint properly.
This raises a question for me. You have to flex a bit at the hip in order to get the lower leg into a slight angle so you can get some thrust on the front side. Just how much flex at the hip seems to be the question. If every thing is coming from the hip down, with no flexing at the hip, you don't get much thrust, no matter how flexible your ankles are. Surely you don't need as much flex as is used with the dolphin kick. Also, when they say the kick does not come from the knee, that makes me think the comment is aimed for those who try to use a scissor kick, which comes way out to the side. With back stroke, that does come more from the knee, at least as near as I can tell. The problem most have with back stroke flutter kick is they try to do it the same way you do freestyle flutter kick. That is why knees tend to come up out of the water for those learning the back stroke. Heel and lower leg don't create as much drag as your thigh does, so less flexing at the hips, and more flexing at the knee.
I never seem to have foot/lower body position problems. Probably from my days as a gymnast where straight body line was essential for doing a hand stand and swinging around the horizontal bar. Suck in your gut like you are trying to put your belly button on your spine... Best advice ever. Primary thing that does is keep your back straight.
I'm so excited to try this out next time I swim!
Thank you! Will try it out next week!
Love this!! Looking forward to trying this out!!
This guy could easily have saved my life swimming 🤠
I love this channel 🙏🏼
So good informations, thank you ❤️❤️❤️
I will mention another way to achieve maximum performance.
*Try to have your bottom outside the water.*
It is difficult in the beginning but when you achieve it (after weeks or months of training, depending your level) you will see how much faster you swim.
My sister was diving athlete with multiple medals. My body was natural born swimmer. My feet is very wide and streamlined. But idk why, I cant swim. Heck cant even keep head above water. Idk why but i cant float on water even if trying
Thank you very much. Your vedios improved my swimming alot. Wish you all the best
Excellent video. Many Thanks 👍
Watched a video of an Olympic swimmer and now I got a bunch of recommendations. I can’t swim and have no desire to learn rn. 🤷🏻♀️
However, by the looks of it, this is a good video. 👏🏻
What does it mean to activate the glute? How do I activate it? Do you mean by doing exercises for it
And that's what I will include in my dryland exercise from now on...
This is very good advice, I will try it on my next swiming day!
Tanks
Thank you for this awesome video. This is really helpful
Awesome!! Thx for the video
Once upon a time, when I was in a school swimming competition, I discovered swimming wasn't my thing when for some odd reason I couldn't keep to my lane, swam left across other lanes and smacked my head in the wall. Never tried swimming in front of people ever again lol
I always knew something was off but I thought it could be me.
It just doesn't seem I'm getting where I should be with the among lf effort I'm putting in.
I have to remmeber this video the next time I go swimming.
And head position if look too forward or upwards this tends to create a leg drag
THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH FOR MY SWIMMING!
So, is it enough to swim with straight legs in order to activate the glutes? Not sure I understood
could you explain here if cadence is related to the sinking legs? What is the right cadence? Thanks in advance
I love this tips.thanks man.gonna try it.
How do you stop leg and foot cramps? Every single time I swim I cram in the calves and feet. I workout daily. Swim 2-3 times a week as well. Take multivitamins.
Any ideas? Super annoying. Calves cramp so bad they feel like they will rip off.
Maybe do warmups before getting into the pool?
@@fathanahrafee995 I usually cramp after about 20-30 minutes of swimming. It is so frustrating
Mine cramp if I point my toes too hard. Try not to have any muscle super tight. Use the muscle but don't strain it.
@@artistichognose1160 hmm. I wonder if that is what I do.
I can see you stop the leg movement when catching air. I thought the legs should work all the time but when i try it it makes it harder to catch air, the resurfacing for air is shorter when i move my legs constantly. So is it correct to stop the leg movement when breathing?
I remember having problems keeping my legs under the water while snorkeling. Fins don't work very well out of the water. Of course that wasn't a problem while SCUBA diving.
Nice tips ever. Thank you.
I thought my legs are stiff in free style because my knees don’t bend much. My free style kick is like I shrug my leg one at a time from butt or hip. I did it to conserve energy.
Thank you! You are the best teacher!!
Thanks for the advice, even my coach can use this tips.
I’m still looking for a swimming instructor !! Can’t find any
You don't need to use your legs at all. just try to hold them paralel to your body. Use them as a balancing equipment. The force that makes you move forward mostly come from your arms.
This is what I was wanting. Amazing
So that’s why im slower swimmer 🏊♂️
Thank you so much for the advice 🔥💪🏽
I learnt swimming naturally in my village ponds and canals. Seriously I don't know there are technique for a effortless swim. I learnt by directly jumping into water.
I love your channel so much
I ve tried my level best I cant even swim can you plz Upload a Video in which you can teach us some starting technic of how to swim
I train swimming everyday. Thankfully my coach says that I have a good stream like. And also with the pull boi he gives us 500m aka 20 laps easy. Easy means slow.
Wow, makes totally sense, thanks!
Sorry for bad english. What does activate glutes mean? Give strength to my hip?
I've always used a kickless style of front crawl I was always the fastest swimmer at the inter school swim races when I was younger. recently some famous swimmer uses my style, I'm older it's my style 😎, and I'm like told you to all my friends lol
Thanks for your sharing
This sounds interesting. I'll try it next time I go swimming.
What did you use to plot muscles motion?
Excellent 👌
Where did u get this animations looks awesome
Didn't learn swimming as a child and I am more into biking and running. And I get tierd just after few laps of swimming. This video is my life story.... Lol. Hope it's end like the video too...