Most of the triathletes which have a problem with swimming have in common many common defects with their stroke including undesirable kicking, undesirable breathing, an undesirable catch and very bad body position.
Body position is essential to swimming given that it directly can affect exactly how much drag you have on the water. While you're traveling down the street next time, put your hand out the window. Lay it flat or parallel to the ground. Next, turn your hand 90 degrees so it is vertical and your thumb is directed at the sky. Feel the big difference the force of the wind is putting on your hand. The least force is on your hand when it has the smallest amount of surface area exposed to the oncoming wind flow.
Swimming will be the exact same. The greater your profile or the more surface area you have exposed to the oncoming water, the greater drag you will have. This is exactly where the idea of streamlined body placement originates from. You would like to make your whole body move through the smallest hole in the water feasible to be able to lower resistance. This may be a good deal easier in theory.
You'll find different things that can cause an undesirable body position, but the most frequent and severe has to be your head. Head placement has a immediate effect on exactly where your hips will probably end up being. Standing with your hands on your hips, move your head all the way down until your chin area is on your chest. Next tip your head back as far as you can. You can feel just how your hips may want to move in the exact opposite direction as your head. Therefore when the head is up, your hips tend to be down.
In swimming, a great body position would have your hips on the top of the water so they follow through the same hole in the water that was made by your head. As you lift your head up, your hips will probably sink and greatly increase the drag you have in the water.
Learning how to perfect head position is not a quick fix. It may need time and work however the advantages will likely be well worth the while. The way to work on this should be to just kick in the #11 position. The #11 position is essentially having your arms over your head like a number #11 or perhaps a touchdown sign in football. Laying facedown in the water without any kick board, simply just begin kicking. Don't use your arms. Let your arms set in place on the surface of the water. You head needs to be low enough in water that your ears are even with or perhaps a little below your arms. When you do this you ought to be able to feel your hips move up to the surface. When you've got an incredibly inadequate kick, this can be done using fins but simply kick slowly. This is a slow drill about finding your balanced body position in the water.
Our recommendation is that you kick about 200 yards or meters in the #11 position each practice for quite a few months to build up proper habits. Quite often coaches will only kick in training in this way simply because utilizing a kickboard encourages kicking with your head up and therefore undesirable body position.
So in order to drastically enhance your swimming easily, figure out how to get your head into the correct position.
Body position is essential to swimming given that it directly can affect exactly how much drag you have on the water. While you're traveling down the street next time, put your hand out the window. Lay it flat or parallel to the ground. Next, turn your hand 90 degrees so it is vertical and your thumb is directed at the sky. Feel the big difference the force of the wind is putting on your hand. The least force is on your hand when it has the smallest amount of surface area exposed to the oncoming wind flow.
Swimming will be the exact same. The greater your profile or the more surface area you have exposed to the oncoming water, the greater drag you will have. This is exactly where the idea of streamlined body placement originates from. You would like to make your whole body move through the smallest hole in the water feasible to be able to lower resistance. This may be a good deal easier in theory.
You'll find different things that can cause an undesirable body position, but the most frequent and severe has to be your head. Head placement has a immediate effect on exactly where your hips will probably end up being. Standing with your hands on your hips, move your head all the way down until your chin area is on your chest. Next tip your head back as far as you can. You can feel just how your hips may want to move in the exact opposite direction as your head. Therefore when the head is up, your hips tend to be down.
In swimming, a great body position would have your hips on the top of the water so they follow through the same hole in the water that was made by your head. As you lift your head up, your hips will probably sink and greatly increase the drag you have in the water.
Learning how to perfect head position is not a quick fix. It may need time and work however the advantages will likely be well worth the while. The way to work on this should be to just kick in the #11 position. The #11 position is essentially having your arms over your head like a number #11 or perhaps a touchdown sign in football. Laying facedown in the water without any kick board, simply just begin kicking. Don't use your arms. Let your arms set in place on the surface of the water. You head needs to be low enough in water that your ears are even with or perhaps a little below your arms. When you do this you ought to be able to feel your hips move up to the surface. When you've got an incredibly inadequate kick, this can be done using fins but simply kick slowly. This is a slow drill about finding your balanced body position in the water.
Our recommendation is that you kick about 200 yards or meters in the #11 position each practice for quite a few months to build up proper habits. Quite often coaches will only kick in training in this way simply because utilizing a kickboard encourages kicking with your head up and therefore undesirable body position.
So in order to drastically enhance your swimming easily, figure out how to get your head into the correct position.
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triForce Swimming is focused on helping triathletes swim not only faster but smarter. With dozens of triathlon swimming drills and techniques, Scott Alexander shows you not how to swim faster and more efficiently, but why things are done they way they are.
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