5 Swim Drills that Don't Actually Make You Faster
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- Want to swim faster? Want better swimming technique? Doing drills can help - but be careful not to do the wrong drills! Some drills don't actually help you improve your form and could end up making you a slower swimmer. Here are five common exercises that people mistakenly do during their swim workouts, and what you should do instead to get faster!
Are swim drills making you slower? 0:00
Catch-Up Drill 0:13
Single Arm Drill 2:06
Fist Drill 3:18
Doggy Paddle Drill 4:14
Kick with a Board Drill 5:09
Technique: it’s all about form, not pace! 6:15
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Which drills do you typically do during your swim workouts? 🏊♀Did we forget to mention any other "unnecessary" exercises? Let us know down below 👇
I like to swim 4 times a week.
And to have a bit of routine.
1 technic sesion
2 sesions provided by our coch.
1 long sesion, 3 to 7,5km.
And repeat.
I think it helps allot for how you train.
The good thing about doing drills is that you can concentrate on what you are trying to improve without worrying about how fast you are going.
All very good tips. Especially about the kickboard use. For me personally snorkel and fins have eliminated kickboard use. I find that the board doesn't help that much and promotes bad habits and puts a strain on the neck.
Very nice video. My swimcoach also skip the kickboard , (but it actually works for small kids 4 or 5 years with kickboard , the legs on them don’t sinking ) . We use often paddles as kickboard , much better.
One drill I like is Total Immersion and then I also force me to breath three beat (you say like that in English (?)). I swim with competition swimmers and than we swim butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and I think that made me faster and stronger in crawl also.
And I did not be one swimmer in the past. All my kids -yes, so they teach mother.
Thank you Mark you do really good swim videos.
I always use a snorkel for my kick sets. If I try and do it head up, my legs sink - plus as I don't swim head up, it seems daft to train like that 🤷♀
Thank you for this video! These are very helpful hints.
My coach never uses a kick board
For kicking drills, we will put on fins, and kick along the bottom of the pool, for ~12.5m, then pop up, and continue full stroke, repeating 25's
We don't do single arm either
When we are doing "slide & glide" slightly like catchup, we hold a pull buoy between our ankles or between thighs & band at the ankles
I'm a swim coach and current triathlete. All these drills are great and the advice is helpful too. The videos of technique could be improved by the swimmer having his lead arm closer to surface. Also, the coach demonstrating doggy paddle bends his wrist but the wrist should be kept straight. Cheers
Hi, Icoach pre competitive.
Teaching a lot of rotation and I do jumping butterfly off the bottom of the pool to teach butterfly and a lot of one armed backstroke and freestyle. Length and rotation.
Emp catch, pull, recovery.
And of course streamline streamline streamline.
Totally agree. Catch up drill coach didn't correctly can just ruin a swim stroke
cheers from Mexico
I love all these drills (when done correctly)
Which one do you think you get the most bang for your buck from? 🏊
@@gtn Just my two watts here, but I love wide arm catchup drill. I know it does not do anything below the hips so it needs to be paired with some sort of balance drill. I like to do a 200m progression where I will do catch-up with the following foci each 50: high elbow catch, accelerating the pull, reaching/rotating through the core, then switch to normal freestyle. That last 50 always feels so smooth
I push down on my kick board with both hands, then single arm laps. I also turn it sideways and submerge it under the water for higher resistance.
I have recommended “my” swimmers not to do the catch up drill at all, as the rotation actually gets messed up.
Swimming seems to be the one sport that has gone out of its way to be as complicated as possible. The drills are bad enough but some of the main sets are just insane.
That said I do a bunch of drills like catch-up,single arm,doggy paddle but always with hand paddles and often as "active recovery" during speed sets instead of hanging onto the side of the pool. Also,never underestimate the value of fins during drill and speed sets as they allow weaker or fatigued swimmers to extend the swim session they are doing instead of bailing because they are tired. (for context,before I got old and slow I was a front pack tri swimmer)
Swimming can be super complex 😵💫 We hope some of our content helps to dispel some of the myths 🙌 It sounds like you've got it down. We all get a bit slower but it's great to hear that you're still keeping fit!
I don't do any drills in swim workouts. I've done them previously in both the pool and open water as directed by coaches but didn't find them beneficial. I do use a pool buoy, paddles and fins in some of my sessions though. I've found they translate into improved strength and efficiency in the water.
No problem using a kickboard when shoulders are flexible and mouth is raised above surface only to breathe in. Kicking usually 15-25% of total workout. Other drills mentioned here are rarely part of my routine. It's all about sets.
The only way someone will ever improve their swim technique is doing correct drills using correct body positioning. Highly recommend getting a friend to video you swimming so you can see what you are doing vs what it feels like you are doing.
Re kickboard use, get rid of the large floats and go small plus never hold onto the top as this also elevates shoulder position leading to injury risk, hold the end nearest to you only as this keeps body position and allows you to concentrate on breathing.
I've done all these drills and I still swim like a turtle on vacation! 😂
Damn that was good advice. It's almost like he's put some thought into this. He's absolutely right about the catch up drill. I did a lot of it and I'm still working on correcting my hand entry.
I only dank that much water when I learned swimming as much as I currently do when I try drills...
Watching this after doing my first swim analysis today.
Would defo recommend everyone to do it. Started off at 2:05 per 100m by end of the hour was doing 1:30 per 100m
Now to put it all together on my own without the coach been there.
Yeah, going from 170 watts ftp to 350 watts ftp, just needed a bike fit. Makes perfect sense bro
Dont waste your time with drills.
Rather spend your time getting core strenth
Too many toys these days, just swim…a lot 😂
Clickbait title. Do better
Doing drills wrong doesn't make you a better swimmer? Who knew? Is there any drill where doing them wrong is good? This is a terrible video title.
I think all drills are useless. None of them made me any faster 😂
What did make you faster? 🏊
@@gtn It was more like a joke meaning I'm a lousy swimmer.
I'm working on my catch at the moment but the biggest problem for me - as usually - is sinking legs.
I have found that drills have shown me where my weakspots are (when done correctly) and allow me to focus on that to improve my pace. Drills done correctly is what made me a more efficient swimmer