Improve Your Freestyle Kick | Swimming Drills To Make You Faster

Kick is easily overlooked when learning to swim, but it is a really effective part of propulsion through the water! It's true, in triathlon you want to save your legs for the bike and run, but you'll still need the power in the race so here are our tips and drills to improve your freestyle kick!

Kick is easily overlooked when learning front crawl. Admittedly it makes up a small percentage of your forward propulsion in middle to long distance swimming, but still an effective kick is vital for an efficient overall stroke.

It's true, in triathlon you want to save your legs for the bike and run to a certain extent but you also want to finish the swim as quickly as possible without wasting energy.

Here are our tips and drills to improve your freestyle kick!

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[fauziothman]

The most useful and overlooked drills would be the side kick and the vertical flutter kick drills. Once I mastered them, my swim time started improving by leaps and bounds over a matter of weeks. Thanks for this great video. 👍. Keep up the good work 👍

[heidiwitherspoon]

Thank you! I have no kick game and needed these ideas.

[frankeeeej]

There's a clip on youtube of Michael Phelps doing vertical dolphin kick whilst holding a 10kg medicine ball over head.
So you could watch that if you ever want to feel hopelessly inadequate as a swimmer/kicker or something :d

[revvingrebel]

Beach Resort, Lanzarote 😂. Gonna do some of the drills more.

[normanwoods]

Great drills. I'm going to drink a ton of water on these!😂ty for the assist.

[gravitycure]

Hi thanks for the tips. How often do you recommend practicing these drills? I swim five days a week so one drill per day?

[abrahamscott]

Could you guys do a video on how to do dolphin kick and drills to help you get the movement correct

[ondroondro]

Perfect instruction, but instructor hurried to the train or what? I had to slowmo video to 0, 0001x cause she was like quicksilver from Marvel. Let's try rappin Chris Brown Look at me now! GOOD JOB. Thank you for helpful video! Thumb up. Subscribe.

[karorione]

how to maintain the CK level (Creatine Kinase level ) during training ? your comment is appreciated .

[pierre]

If it is up to me, i would do these exercices only once 😂. I am affraid to ask how many times a week. How long each exercices 😮😮😮😮😮.

[kaiesguerra]

I’ve always thought that I was doing the kicks correctly until I took a video of myself. It turns out that Im frog kicking. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

[markuskaarto]

Which hotel is that? Looks great for training! 🏊

[trbeyond]

Heather, were you cold or REALLY cold when doing those vertical kicking drills? Looked kinda miserable 😂

[nicktaylor]

I get savage cramp in my inner thighs after about an hr of swimmimg. I eat bananas drink electrolytes and take magnesium. Anyone got a remedy ?🏊‍♂️