5 Tips To Improve Your Freestyle Swimming Stroke! | Front Crawl Technique Improvements

We’d all like to swim faster in the water and reach T1 with as little effort as possible, right? Well, there are a few key aspects of the stroke to focus on, and so in today’s video, we’ve got 5 tips that can help you improve your freestyle stroke!

When you’re racing a triathlon, for almost all of us, the freestyle stroke is the go-to choice for the swim portion of the event, and it goes without saying that we’d all like to go faster in the water and reach T1 with as little effort as possible, right?

So how do we go about tackling this problem we hear you ask? Well, there are a few key aspects of the stroke to focus on, and so in today’s video, we’ve got 5 tips that can help you improve your freestyle stroke!

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[gtn]

What aspect of your swim stroke do you need to work on the most? 🏊‍♀️

[BabaDeyTri]

Thank you for this bit. Definitely need as much help in my swimming as I can get. Every tip helps!!

[brucemurray]

Really digging the camera and color grading work GTN 👊. Great tips, I’ve started recently pool swimming again, after nearly a year of only open water. It’s good to get back to basics and drills every once in a while.

[AitchT.]

I’m doing a sea swim for charity next month it’s 2300m from one pier to the other, I’m absolutely pooing myself I need to get better asap

[MrBraindead]

Agree with all of these. The three most important things when swimming front crawl are technique, technique and technique. So do those drills but understand why you're doing them. This video does a good job on the why. Thanks for all your content, GTN.

[CLP]

Thank you for the tips! I have my swim training soon and this was perfect before I start my workout!

[Being-a-Biker]

Just want to thank you for all your videos. I am new to swimming (4 months) and your videos have helped me tremendously. I am a GTN fan now....

[andrewwillows]

Another great video thanks. I've been really pleased with how my swimming has progressed since watching your videos.

[keerthanaaraju]

U guys are awesome thank you very much ❤️

[scottbarclay]

Thanks for the excellent video! I love the graphics and presentation for this video. All of the key points are covered. Freestyle is my most challenging stroke and I struggle with the breathing. I find when I exhale through my nose the chlorine gives a stinging sensation and I just want to go back to breaststroke! I will try these tips and hopefully I can improve. Thanks so much!!!

[julielepage]

I need to try harder
Some parts of my swimming have improved
Still a got a lot to learn it will be 2 years in September since I had swimming lessons.
I have to remember rome wasn't built in a day 😊

[timgallagher]

I've always struggled to do distance and someone observed that I'm "not very flat"(so my leags are down and I am moving through the water with my body angled. That's a lot of drag. Head, Breathing and rotation seems to be key for that but (yes?) I will try all the tips - VERY helpful

[ndiopun]

Looks so good form! To swim more relaxed I'm trying to glide long time. What do you think of it ?

[timobrien]

Holding good relaxed form while increasing cadence

[ajayvs]

i can observe elbow drop on the other hand when one hand pulls for catch. maintaining high elbow is tedious part.

[kofuzi]

Great video guys. But imma need more than 5 tips

[nicholasdargus]

Good tips to start. Rolling on your axis will help with many of the items mentioned here: head position, hand entry, pushing out the back and best of all breathing. Apologies I don’t know the female presenters name, but your right hand is not holding together. Without seeing you overhead I feel like because your fingers aren’t together you are actually entering and then moving your hand/arm away from your axis. Keep the fingers and thumb together so it cuts through the water better and is easier to guide into your axis and you can get on top of it for the first pull. And tuck that thumb in so you get more surface area for the pull 🙂.

[tylermohr]

I'm swimming 1:24/100yard paces long distances, I use form goggles to track my speed. Sometimes my fewer stroke count lengths I'm pushing 1:15, is that because I'm more streamline during those runs and getting a little sloppy when it goes to 1:24? I can't figure out what I'm doing differently to make such a large jump.

[pranze]

Bit of a falling shoulder on those examples

[MrVelvetino]

If you going to have videos of you swimming make sure your technic is near perfect,