How To Swim With Less Effort: Our Top 5 Tips!

We have spent centuries trying to make life easier for ourselves, working out ways to achieve the same outcome with less effort, and swimming is no different. So with that in mind, we have a whole host of tips to help you swim with less effort!

00:00 Introduction
00:25 Body Position
01:57 Smaller Leg Movements
03:07 Body Rotation
04:23 Make Breathing Easy With Better Head Position
06:13 Relax To Go Faster
07:38 Outro

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[glendownton]

"How to make swimming easier" as someone goes past doing butterfly in the background!

[nk-dwhm]

I feel like running and biking benefit each other, but swimming you have to focus on to get better

[SBoots]

I am currently focusing on the swim. I got it done in races but it was ugly. There is a lot to remember in the technique and I struggled to get from one end to the other. Panic, out of breath, high heart rate. Your videos have helped and I find my self concentrating on form and what needs to be done plus I have slowed down and now have a rhythm in stroke to breath. With all that I am at the end of the pool and now can do 6 laps, take a short rest and continue. It is getting better just by slowing down and concentrating on form. Just got to translate to the open water part come April.

[MrMooney]

I really relate to your videos, so you hold any swim camps? thanks

[andreabarbieri]

Thank god i see i am not the only one strugling every day with the swim ...

[robohippy]

Never understood the concept of the 'kick comes from the hops and not the knee'. Best guess as why this is said this way is that coaches don't want you to use a scissor kick, like used with the life guard side stroke. The same knee action that is used in the dolphin/fly kick is used with the flutter kick. Without that little flick from flexing at the knee and then that little crack the whip 'snap' ;you don't get nearly as much power. With the 2 beat kick pattern or 6 beat kick pattern, the #1 kick is the power kick. It anchors on the pulling arm which initiates the shoulder and body rotation. With the 6 beat kick, the 2 and 3 kicks are much weaker. Too much flex at the knee causes more drag, but you have to flex at the knee to get the 'whip' action. The hips are not really capable of generating rotation by themselves. In land based sports that use rotation, you start the rotation at the feet, either both feet at shoulder width like golf or karate, or you step into the rotation, like discus, shot put, or a baseball pitcher. Rotation travels from feet, through hips, and out the shoulder/arm/fingers. In swimming, there is nothing solid to anchor on to generate that rotational energy, and your feet are not far enough apart to be able to generate any rotation. Watch any swimmer, and the rotation starts at the pulling arm, goes through the hips, and out the toes/feet, and finally the recover arm completes the shoulder rotation. Note, shoulders rotate independently, while the hips rotate as a solid unit. Catch up drill is one of the better ones out there. With swimming, there is a tiny bit of throwing the arm forward, but most of what we are doing is focused on the pull.

Where can I find a treading water advise?

[prabhumurugesan]

Should I exhale through the nose or mouth in freestyle. Pls advise. Thank you Sir

[vijayasrigolla]

I get very tired after finishing 50 myself.i take little one minute gap to do the next 50.how can I finish without stopping 400 mts.

[DjNika]

How to keep head up during swimming? 🏊‍♂️

[rustyheyman]

I like you guys but a lot of your content is focused on beginners. It would be nice to see some content for intermediate and advanced triathletes. Keep up the good work and cheers

[gtn]

What aspects of Swimming do you find the hardest? Share your thoughts with us 🙌

[joaomota]

I dont have an hairline. So how do I position my head?

[triroo]

Relax, im from the government… don’t be an active drowner… 😂 lifeguard joke