As a competitive swimmer and swim instructor, watching this made me realize all of the techniques we unconsciously incorporate when swimming every day. Fantastic video, great portrayal of freestyle.
Pro Tip: Look at this image at 1:05. This is how to swim WRONG. While going forward, the whole body becomes a source of resistance, due to the angle. The leg kick is actually one of the least effective means of propulsion. If you just do leg kicks, you could tire out before reaching the other side of the pool. It is extremely inefficient for propulsion. Don't cater to it. That said, the leg kick is VERY efficient for raising the legs. You can do a lot of the leg kick at the hips. Keep your legs STRAIGHT not bent at the knees. You only want to kick your legs enough that your body straightens out like a bullet when you swim. No more than that unless you're definitely in sight of the finish line and have no concern at all for conserving energy. The arm stroke is many times more efficient for propulsion than the leg kick. Not even close. All your real work is done by the arms. Kick with your legs just enough to straighten out, and then use your arms to move like a rocket. Maybe a 10/90 or 5/95 split as far as effort. The effort you save in the legs can then be used for your arms and you will blast past everyone. Most to least efficient propulsion: 1. Kicking off the wall or bottom of pool. 2. Pulling on a rope, such as the divider rope in the pool. 3. Using flippers. 4. Arm strokes. 5. Leg kicks. 6. Flapping around like Patrick Duffy in "Man From Atlantis". This does next to nothing. For the kind of swimming described in this video, use MINIMAL leg kicks (just enough to keep your body horizontal) and maximal arm strokes. This is how to win. Very very easy to do, even for beginners. The way to find the sweet spot is to kick harder when moving forward (like they normally teach you) and then reduce the effort gradually until you feel your legs drooping down at an angle. This causes drag and you will lose speed fast. Kick just a little harder than that and you have found the sweet spot. You will be able to go much farther because you're not burning oxygen at the same rate as before. You're not draining body energy as fast. You can therefore maintain a high speed for a very long time and sail right past your competitors. Remember, you can use your hips and torso to "flick" your legs using even less effort. Utilize the torso rotation used to keep the stroke arm down, and let that "flow" down to your legs, kept stiff at the knees. I don't lose races in the pool. Younger stronger guys are confused every time.
Follow this video series in order: 1- Swim with LESS Effort: ruclips.net/video/9Wm0kyjtmaE/видео.html 2- Is it really easier to kick less?: ruclips.net/video/GMuYSlli3io/видео.html 3- The Most Important Body Part In Swimming: ruclips.net/video/CxhHPhKEtSI/видео.html 4- The Speed is in Your Hands: ruclips.net/video/Qnk_W5rzs2I/видео.html 5- Correct Breathing: ruclips.net/video/DuYAuj7DkUs/видео.html 6- Correct Arm Movement: ruclips.net/video/16mF-BUQRfI/видео.html 7- How to swim faster: ruclips.net/video/2KhqIa5ates/видео.html 8- Beautiful Freestyle is the last step: ruclips.net/video/mID8Mu1_nKQ/видео.html 9- 5 months to swim 2.5 miles (From zero): ruclips.net/video/C0uBYuBmvw4/видео.html 10- The easiest way to swim: ruclips.net/video/F7yP2bcoRgM/видео.html
Things we also did in club: - Swim without putting your head in the water (keep head straight); - Swim with your floaters on your legs - Swim with your legs attached and without waving them. - Swim with arm stretched in front of you and your leg attached and undulate like a dolphin, try to go as fast as you can. - Swim on you back, only using legs and using your lung for buoyancy. - Do the plank, arms and legs out, then expire until you touch the bottom (in a 3m pool) - Weight your legs / arms and do the above - Use "plates" for your hands and swims - Use flippers - If you don't wear swimming glasses, try to swim with swimming glasses while looking at the bottom (can be disturbing, especially when the pool is deep) - Simple jump from pads without any splash and try to reach the other side without any "swimming" move - Drop floaters with different buoyancy (So they are at different depths) and collect them all - In the small pool (less than 1m depth), throw annulus all over the place and try to collect as much as possible before having to emerge - In the small pool, run across the length - Swim with a spongy pajama In pair: - Grab your partner from the middle of the pool and bring him on the side (or do a length) - Grab feet of your partner and swim with your feet while he uses his arms, switch - Fight under water - In the small pool, compete with someone else to collect annulus without emerging
I taught myself to swim just by watching youtube videos. I would watch & go to the pool to practise what I just watched. I'm a really good swimmer today & improving all the time.
Hey man how long did it take for you to become a good swimmer? I started swimming this week and have started watching videos and am hoping to get good soon
@@shiparelli3448 _What I mean by extreme is what we don't do everyday that requires more skills, like traveling through water, unlike finding food & shelter, which are the most common & easiest survival skills. And I don't think it is rare anymore, since we are almost always surrounded by water [like in fishing, transportation, vacation, sports, where accidents can happen anytime]_
The most important steps to improve swimming endurance: 1) use fatigue resistant core muscles to generate force needed to pull arm through water; use fatigue sensitive arm muscles from shoulder to finger tip to maintain minimal tension needed to keep the arm in a catch posture, 2) maintain horizontal body position by swimming posture, not by kicking, 3)use proper catch position, 4) rotate, not lift, the head to breath, you can find air in the trough (depression) of water near your armpit, 5) learn to swim in a straight line, 6) do not hold breath, but release air slowly following inhalation as you would during normal breathing 7) meditate while breathing, 8) keep arm and hand close to center-line of body to generate more force while minimizing swaying right and left. Using core muscles: extend right arm forward, form catch position, thrust the right shoulder backwards while simultaneously thrusting left shoulder forward and thrusting your hip to rotate your body. These thrusting core body movements pull the right arm through the water. The right arm muscles from shoulder to finger tips maintain the minimal tension needed to maintain catch position and reduce fatigue, any less tension in the arm muscles would make the arm collapse. Feel the shoulder and body rotation pull the arm through the water. Horizontal body position: lie supine (face down) in water, lower the head, extend both arms in front, lower the arms with legs horizontal. If your legs begin to sink in the water, lower your head and arms more. If you get this right, you can easily swim in a perfect horizontal position with no kicking movements. Catch position: flex arm at elbow, point palm backwards to your feet, pull arm through water keeping the palm pointed to your feet. Your palm is like the flat surface of an oar, pushing your body forward. Meditate: focus on slow breathing and minimizing muscle tension of your entire body.
Bruh.... You're Real deal!! I followed all your tutorial 2 year back...Didnt swim due to this covid outbreak... And it's hard in India to find one pool , Few days back I started back... Jumped twice a day , Reminded myself all your teachings, I came fastest here at company's PET!! ( PS- Once water was my biggest fear nd now people appreciate my speed here) thanks & keep up the Good work ❤
I'm 39 years old and I've been trying to learn how to swim for so many years. Many people have tried to show me but it doesn't work. I am a yoga teacher, so I have body and breath awareness, I am fit enough to cycle 100kms in a day, and I play the drumset with four limbs, so I have coordination, but swimming is by far the hardest skill I've ever tried to learn. I feel exhausted so quickly, and I feel like I'm not moving. I went to lessons last year and still didn't get it. My friend was trying to show me some stuff over the last few weeks and I feel I made a tiny bit of progress. For me it's like some kind of superpower. I have no idea how you all do it!
If you're exhausted quickly, might be you're holding your breath; if you do that, you will hold a bit of air in bottom of your lungs, then you'll do the same with next breath, and quickly you can't catch your breath. Practice breathing out as soon as you're face is underwater and expelling ALL air out of your lungs.
First you learn to play in the water. Forget about swimming. Just make friends with it. Use Goggles! It's not about doing the crawl back and forth for 20 minutes. Have fun.
@@jovesheerwater Oh I've spent so much time in the water; in swimming pools, in rivers, in the sea. I love being in the water, and I have goggles, I just really struggle to learn the skill of swimming. I've recently realised that it might be the result of an incident when I was around six years old, walking into the deep end of the swimming pool, swallowing lots of water, and thinking I was going to drown. I remember I had lessons soon after and I was holding on to the edge, terrified, telling the teacher I thought I was going to drown. I guess there's been some mental block there ever since. I also got into a bit of trouble around five years ago, when I was snorkeling in Tenerife. I went out to what I thought was a very modest distance but when I tried to come back the current was very strong and I nearly didn't make it. I've been making a little bit of progress with the help of a friend the last few weeks so I'll keep practicing and see where it takes me.
@@sherrywhite1517 I'm actually very good at breathing out, it's the breathing in without taking in water that I struggle with, but it's improving a little bit.
Having experienced nearly drowning twice, watching your video has made me realise why I was never a confident or even competent swimmer, for someone like me, relaxing with my head underwater and my lower half not floating as it needed to caused much subconscious anxiety, which quickly manifested into very conscious anxiety, I'm definitely going to watch this video many times and practice swimming.
You really wanna swim without getting tired? Forget such useless techniques and just move like a gecko inside the water (of course with slower movements). You will have a very mild pace while saving tons of energies and if you administrate it well it makes you save even more energies than remaining in fixed position with legs down , at the same time you can move too. If you want to give more thrust you can occasionally move the legs like a frog does. You can soon naturally learn it , just keep in mind the movement of a gecko and you will quickly adjust the whole. That's honestly said by a person who was born by the seaside and has swam all life long , even against waves and currents , even underwater while exploring , and it works in a swimming pool too. People who are just going to learn swimming in a swimming pool will never be able to swim for long time such as in an emergency situation. At the swimming pool you learn techniques used to go fast in a competition and without adverse water conditions , swimming without getting tired is another matter. Often people who don't live by the sea are not able to truly swim by practical convenience and just apply the techniques they were taught in a pool. Not having much muscular mass helps a lot too , the ones having muscle mass get tired quicker and drown quicker , also having too much fat make you drown quicker though it protects you from the cold , and also being too skinny makes you drown quicker , both because energies and because you become more vulnerable to the cold , while a balanced body is the best type for surviving into the water for long time. I will not read possible replies so to prevent fanaticism.
Agree. Staying calm is KEY. Using goggles helped me see where I was at, how deep or shallow the water was and that calmed me down heaps. Not seeing where you are can play tricks on the mind, triggers panic, and a downward spiral from there. Snorkels can also help for absolute beginners.
Bro, day before yesterday, I was able to swim for the first time in my life. The motivation and guidance your videos provided was priceless for me in achieving my greatest bucketlist skill. Thank you so much brother. Keep doing the good work, may God bless you.
I also raced and finished IM Cozumel last November (swim leg in little under an hour). I started learning to swim on March of last year. I didn't have a swim coach, so all was thanks to RUclips and a lot of practice. Your videos were some of the most helpful, mainly the Aaron series. Thank you and greetings from Mexico!
I learned to swim at 35 - I haven’t stopped ..365 days of the year. Transitioned to open water & I’m still learning to improve .. Helped me mentally / physically & I’m a better, calm person ! .. 🏊🏻♂️☕️
you guys are soo good at explaining things! I took up masters swimming about ten years ago with coach who narrowly missed the olympics. So, I have heard a lot of this before, but your graphics and excellent videos make me really feel it. Thanks so much.
I've been swimming for a month. Now i can breathe on both sides .thank you for your videos . I still get tired but i can notice the small improvements!
I honestly had no idea this was even possible. My girlfriend watched a video the other day where this boat capsized and the lady swam six hours to shore to find help. Unbelievable and amazing. I really hope to learn how to swim one day.
Your last words are what stops you from learning. You just hope to learn, you are not learning by hoping, you are sitting ducks while hoping. Hope is never the driving force of progress.
@@chiamakae6416 Check at your local city rec center if you have one (not YMCA). I got swim lessons for my daughter (5) for free and mine was only like $40 for 4 lessons. Got me far enough to float and stroke and then work on getting better with technique on my own.
Thank you very much for this! I have been a swimmer my entire life, but I've never been comfortable with freestyle, as I use too much energy, so I will try your advice. I have a stroke I use, on my back, extend the arms over the head, frog kick while pulling with the arms. This is very easy for me and I can swim for hours this way, but you have given me renewed interest in freestyle. One further point - to anyone that swims in the ocean it is vital to have at least one stroke you can use that for you is at the same level of effort as walking. If you get pulled out by rip currents, simply look at the beach to see which way the current is taking you, then swim diagonally with the current towards the shore. Do not be in a hurry. You may end up well down the beach from where you went in.
My dad threw me in the pool at the age of 7 in order to "teach me to swim". That traumatized me from water and i had no more trust in even attempting to progress - It took years and finally with 55(!) i overcome my fear and taught myself to swim preferably in sea water - These kind of videos also support & help me to perfect my skills.
My dad attempted to teach us to swim in a river nearby - his attempt was 3 minutes long, as we didn't get it the first time he got angry and never tried again, which lead to lot of other failings in my life to be honest. If i try something new and fail at the beggining I lose interest in trying on. Incredible how many of us have fears or complexes in doing things because of our parents.
Really important to prevent shoulder injuries is not crossing the center line of your body with your arms. Make sure you are rotating into the stroke and I tell all of my athletes to make sure they are moving in line with their shoulders! Most important lesson I have learned in my coaching career: keep good technique. People get tired and they start swimming sloppy which winds up in injury.
Hi there, today i'm really really happy that I watched your video. I was trying to swim until my muscle feels tired, but I couldn't, my breath is short and become heavy, hyperventilate. I tried your test and got like 55s without tired. I learned your breath techniques and today I can swim 25m with only 1 breath, I'm so excited and swim for like 1.5h without stop and tired at all.
My swim coach told me, "There's two types of swimmers: the power swimmer, and the lazy swimmer. You are a power swimmer. There's nothing wrong with that. But maybe, try being a lazy swimmer." I'm a tall and skinny guy. Hypothetically, I should be like a torpedo in the water. However, there was a guy that was short, stocky, and a very pronounced beer belly, and he was the fastest sprinter in the club. For every 3 strokes I did, he took one to go the same distance. And he was a lazy swimmer!!! He always beat me in races.
Aaron and Blake (A aron and Bilake) 😂 Brilliant video, really helpful! I haven’t swam in years and I’m not even sure I still can. But due to an ongoing hip injury I’m trying something other than running. My goal is to cardio health and injury rehabilitation 💪🏾
Its insane how good this video is. If you're starting to do front crawl and you have no idea how - this explain exactly how to do it! I had 1x1 training plus team groups sessions, and I know that just practise and training will get you there, sort of, but with the clear and perfectly showing how to and why and what in all these moves- it all came into place and I so get it ten times better now! Thank you!
Fantastic video!!! Thank you so much for your thorough explanations. I also truly appreciate how receptive you are to feedback from those who comment. Your work is truly having a positive impact in my life. I’m taking swim lessons and also watching these videos. Wishing you continued success! 🏆
It will be interesting to see what you have to say about Aaron rehabbing his knee. I picked up swimming maybe 15 years ago after a long lay off. I knew I had to get both hips and one knee replaced, and needed to lose some weight and get as physically ready as I could. End result was I got bilateral hips done, which is both at the same time, and a year later, the knee. I got through rehab in half the time that others did. Also, as soon as I was able to get back in the pool, which was 4 weeks after, Swelling vanished, and range of motion improved much faster. Zero impact and total aerobic exercise.
Thank you so much for your comment. I am about to go for a total ankle replacement and have to get fit and lose some weight too. So I went back to the pool after about 6 years. To know that swimming helped with your rehabilitation is great. I'll keep swimming till my surgery. Thank you.
@@projectembrace1964 Half of the preparation for replacement surgery if physical, and half is mental. For the physical, it helps build your circulatory system so your blood moves around more efficiently which helps speed the recovery. For the mental part, I did Thai Chi for years before my surgeries, so lots of meditational standing and breathing. You can learn to calm yourself. Between those two things, the surgeon said I was a perfect candidate for bilateral hip replacement. Good luck with your repair job!
LOL... I love the Kay and Peele references... A-aron and B-La-Ke Nice video. I self taught myself how to freestyle swim a few years ago. I have always been a very week swimmer only able to swim 25-50 meters without having to stand. After losing a significant amount of weight over the last few months from weight training, I feel like I'm ready to jump back in the pool and try to get to 800-1000 meters. I know it will take work however I think that I will only be able to commit to swim training only once a week. I hope that this will be enough to reach my goal by the end of this summer.
2.5 months ago, I couldn't swim at all. Today, I easily swam 2000 meters (2187 yards). In about 9 months, I will need to swim full Ironman distance. The video is great and explains a lot, but it's even better to have a PT, who will say and repeat and explain. I never thought I will enjoy swimming so much :)
Thanks for these great videos. Had to give up 5-a-side at 55 and this has given me a whole new sport. Really helped me improve for distance races now in my late 60s.
I'm a strong swimmer, WSQ in the Marines, my father on ther hand was a smooth swimmer one of very few people ive ever seen who could swim upriver ( i was raised in Oregon) almost effortlessly. Thanks for explaining this in an easy to understand manner. I'll incorporate this and see if it helps me improve!
I've always had excellent running endurance but could never figure out why I get so exhausted after a lap of swimming and could never utilize my legs which feel like dead weight being towed under water.. thanks for this guide
It is not that easy with utilizing legs. You have to synchronize them with your arms, and it also depends whether you are doing sprints or swim longer distance.
Yea, it takes time. I am a runner too. Swimming is just whole new thing. It's more like your arm endurance rather than your legs. Good thing we have enough endurance for our legs. Just need to train the arms. Good luck . I am trying to complete a lap .
Drinking beer and eating donuts right now sitting in my easy chair. But….. I swam a mile of laps and ran 9 miles earlier today. Difficult not to binge 😢
Thank you for this iv been swimming since last year and iv loved it but recently i think iv been overthinking about my strokes and breathing etc i started getting anxiety so after watching this video i made sure i relaxed and i swam alot better and alot more. That's what draws me back to swimming week after week for how it makes me feel thanks once again at age 42 i can finally swim. Tip to anyone else dont stop practicing but make sure to relax and enjoy it 😊
Rather than constantly kicking like the other swimmers shown in this video, the Swimmer at 5:24 kicks in tandem with his arm movement. Constantly kicking is tiring. I've been a horrible swimmer my entire life but when I learned of a technique called 'total immersion swimming' using timed kicks, I became a much better and more relaxed swimmer. Disclaimer: FWIW, I'm a non-competitive amateur. Great video. I just subscribed.
I wasn't sure I heard correctly when you called Aaron "A-A-ron" but then when you said "He was two minutes faster than Bla-kay" I immediately subscribed because Key and Peele characters transcending their skit into swimming tutorials is hilarious.
I liked the info in this video and I will keep it mind as I am looking to re-start swimming for cardio soon... but the pronunciation of "Aaron" kept reminding me of the Key & Peele classroom sketch 😅
For me swimming is a cardio workout like running (definitely not walking). You need to train to improve. After training a couple of months I can now swim for 30 minutes easily. When I started I needed a break after 2 minutes.
It's definitely not about cardio. I can run half of a marathon (can't say easily) or 12 minute sprint but few minutes of proper (more or less) swimming increases my heart rate dramatically. And a year of regular training hadn't helped. More over, I can feel increased heart bpm right now writing this text. It's something about ancient animal fear which can't be controlled at all.
@@igronus I didn’t mean that when you have a good condition at running you can also swim for a long time or vice versa. Same for other cardio workouts. You have to train it individually. And yes I agree, if you are anxious nothing helps. You need to control that first.
The things we learn late in life when our bodies are faulty and the opportunity is lost. Our schools has swimming pools back in the 50's and 60's. We were as just tossed in to the water, and fished out if we sank. That was the swimming tuition I recall. I never got to swim really, but could sometimes survive 25 metres. So I am not a swimmer and have avoided swimming. Now I have developed other issues that mean I will never swim. My point is that in my view, it is crucial, not only for children to have access to swimming pools, BUT to also have coaches who actually know about swimming. Watching this video, I am convinced my teachers knew nothing at all. But how many times could it have made a life saving difference! I recall in my twenties that a family friend's daughter got into trouble in deep water just a few metres from shore. I could not go in to help. But someone else saw and heard the distress, ran across the beach and dived in. He probably saved her life, and I felt bad. Swimming is a great capability as well as fitness and sport.
I really appreciate your videos including this !! I am good at freestyle & butterfly but poor at breast stroke and long distance swimming. Your video really help me. Thank you !!
There is one huge factor: leg length to torso proportion. Long legs with short torso is significantly slower than short legs with long torso. You can maximise your speed and efficiency for each body shape but, all things being equal in technique and training, the first shape is slower than the second. Just maximise speed and efficiency for your body. Beyond that, big hands and big feet is faster than small feet and small hands. Flexible ankles helps too. Final factors are height, arm length, and fast arms.
Why is that? I have long legs in proportion to my body. I have been swimming literally for years several times per week but it still takes me nearly an hour to swim a mile. I don’t over kick know how to breath stay in a streamline pull with my arms but still a turtle pace. Could that be why?
As a swimmer for 30 years and swim instructor/coach for 15, the only thing you need to stay on top of the water is keeping your eyes looking straight down for freestyle, turn to your back to breathe then back to your stomach. if you can do this freestyle becomes very easy.
Nice video. As a physical therapist (physiotherapist), I can inform you that pushing the shoulder forwards as you suggest is one of the ways the rotator cuff might be strained…
I'm in love with Aaron swim video series.....I am a beginner swimmer.....after watching above series today I felt so easier in swimming without getting tired.....thank you ❤️
I only swim to lose weight (plus I feel in my element and it helps me to relax and think). Never thought much about technique but this is a brilliant video. Thanks.
I'm an adult trying to learn how to swim. For fckn months I could not swim without kick board between my legs and even with it it was soo bad. Just this week I've been watching and rewatching videos with tips and so on....I DID IT I swam several length today experienced gliding in the water and had enough endurance to go in the pool waay longer than usual. Tips that made a difference to me: balance drills from smooth swimming videos. advice to NOT release the air slowly, kicking advice from smooth swimming and other videos. These made so the breathing was way easier for me then it was for ages. I was so hype i was smiling to everyone in the pool...I must've looked like total creep but was so proud of myself :D Thank you very much for all the videos and priceless advice. All the best to everyone contributing to these videos !!
1. try breathing less often to increase co2 tolerance 2. train rotator cups to avoid tendonitis 3. shoulder internal rotation when hand still in front, if not possible start pull more open, more out to side, palm facing backwards. 4. keep lats and pecs stretched, 5. push shoulder down while elbow near surface. 4:54 (internal rot injury?) not necessary for me 6. clean entry, shoulder rotation when hand enters water 7. bring had out more if waves. head up to make sure current doesnt take you.
Rather than constantly kicking like the other swimmers shown in this video, the Swimmer at 5:24 kicks in tandem with his arm movement. Constantly kicking is tiring. I've been a horrible swimmer my entire life but when I learned of a technique called 'total immersion swimming' using timed kicks, I became a much better and more relaxed swimmer. Disclaimer: FWIW, I'm a non-competitive amateur. Check out Total Immersion Swimming. Once I learned that technique it changed everything. It made such a difference in effort that I went from hating swimming to loving it.
being calm under water made me achieve something i never thought i will achieve . We're at a vacation , i got angry and jump into the pool it made me calm and i hold my breath for how many seconds , longer than the usual which not even pass 10 seconds . i remain in the water and calm my self down . Being calm really does help .
I've always found swimming impossible for me, since childhood. I'm tall and underweight and I feel like my body doesn't want to float at all, the effort it takes to swim just 10 meters is insane to me.
Same here but practice is the key, always has been. Being 2 meters tall, roughly 30kg underweight (damn you hard gainer body...) and also long legs, the effort is massive. Its so frustrating to see kids flying past you like its nothing for them! But going to pool three times a week helped a lot to improve the endurance and now 1km of swimming is not so hard anymore. Occasionally was doing 1.5km and once tried baby marathon swimming course aka 2km swim which i was impressed i managed to do. Turned out it was already way past the moment I must have needed to get to next level, I was idling at 1km with my efforts already, but I was swimming frog style those 2km. It aint effortless still, I still have blackening on my eyes after 500m like Im at my limits but its not like it was before where freestyle swimming 25m and Im dead whale at the poolside... Swimming other techniques first helps before progressing to freestyle, frog is the easiest and with proper technique and practice you will be on par and better than most people swimming freestyle by itself already. Hardest must be butterfly which is still a bit no no for me. It is seriously hard one...
I don't need any help to float. I just put myself on my back, totally relaxed, watching the sky. Almost fell asleep once when I did it. Another time when I was on vacation I was floating on my back. Didn't think about it, but suddenly I was far away from the shore. But I calmlingly swam back. Wasn't even exhausted. So yeah, I guess I have mastered it.
Thanks a lot! You make the best swimming content on youtube! It's a great idea to collect all individual videos into blocks and supplement them with important little things. Special thanks for the graphics and animation - it's very visual.
I agree. You guys are the best. I've learned and still learning a lot. Your videos are awesome. My swimming is improving from the knowledge received here. The Aaron series represents someone like me who just took up swimming since August 2021 and I am able to swim now and just working on better breathing technique and less kicking to conserve more energy. I am about to go swimming in about 30 minutes and will include the kicking while on the back in my sessions. Thanks again.
First of all, thanks for your training tips videos. They are helpful and useful to me as a self taught swimmer. I started to train myself for long distance swimming since November 2023, didn't realize that I could make it an hour without a break swim in freestyle. I have observed that there are 'issues' during my swimming. Hope you can offer me advice to improve or resolve these issues. 1. the first 20 mins, I will have sore shoulders. But once I passed beyond this point. I don't feel tire in my arms. 2. Often my right feet has cramp after 50 mins, I usually stop my kicking and continue without using my leg(s) for two laps. Then it seems to me that my cramp is gone. Your advice would be appreciated:)
Terry Laughlin, US Swim Coach for 45 years and Founder of Total Immersion Swimming method in 1988 designed a step by step sequence of drills including head lead balance and hand lead balance and superman glide. This demonstration of the skills including the drawings is copyrighted under Simon and Schuster publishing 1996, 2004 book entitled: Total Immersion: A Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster ,Easier. Total Immersion,Inc. releases a water proof swim guide with head lead, hand lead, and superman glide in the early 90's. the illustrations by Stephen Laughlin, also under copyright. When an author spends 4 decades of research and coaching at an elite level and has published work, it is plagiarism to copy manufacture, publish, distribute the authors work in part or whole without advanced written permission. A credit or footnote is required to source of the any written professional material. NOTE: your animation has U shape back strain due to inaccurate leading arm spear direction. This is a simple basic skill that goes with proper balance. I suggest the audience look at the Total Immersion books and streaming dvds.
Ilyen videót még nem láttam. Nagyon köszönöm! Nagyon érdekes videó volt. Szeretnék én is megtanulni ilyen stílusban úszni. Mellúszást már csinálgatom, de csak magamtól próbáltam megtanulni. Hasonló elveket követve. Légzés, kis ellenállás, higgadtság, siklás közbeni pihenés. Nem versenyszerűen, de élvezetesen tudok így úszni. Balatont 3-szor átúsztam így 5.2km. Az erőnlétemhez képest sok, de jó próbatétel. Egy kérdésem is lenne: Derékfájást lehet javítani gyorsúszással?
That dude at 5:24 is so satisfying to watch. I want to get into swimming now. We have a highly specialized way of movement in all environments! Walking heel toe, running on the ball of our foot, brachiating in trees, and all our weird swimming techniques, all thanks to our apeness.
Thanks, this video helped me a lot as I've always struggled to swim well and I'm not in bad shape! The 3D diagram helped too. I always assumed I had to have my body very-very parallel rather than finding a good balance point + using my lower legs. Thank you!
Gracias!buena explicación del encogimiento del hombro;me identifico con Aaron pq yo tengo todos esos defectos(y mas😅)al nadar pero los videos si que ayudan!!!!😊
I really like your videos as you make swimming look very easy. When I jump into the pool it's a totally different story. I really struggle as I get tired very quickly and I really put in alot if effort in my swimming. I don't have a swimming couch but I'll let you know if I get better. Thanks.
I start to adore swimming now that I take lessons, even though I was not born in a country with water or swimming tradition. Besides, I still have feeling that i’m gulping in too much water. But still love it!
The most important thing in freestyle is maintaining your body as straight as possible along with your hand and leg. And dont drag your body too much deep into the water, stay light at the surface.. Imo
I got Corona and university. I am a little bit behind on classes. I really don't want to give up swimming. Any advice on how to keep up with school ans swimming 🏊♂️? How minimum should I go weekly and how long a stop is too much?
i have a swim marathon coming up, its a fundraiser for my team. sponsors can pledge a dollar(or more) per lap or simply send a flat rate. my goal is 500 laps, so i can raise a little over 500 dollars. most i can swim without having to stop is 200 laps (each lap is 25yds) this video is quite helpful thank you!
Dear Authors, I appreciate your fist idea to get our body and mind acustomed to under water existence, before starting to swim. Horizontal alingment and legworks are then the steps to be covered. Frog legs can help much in thiks way, as wel as thos extra palm helping to feel better the anchoring of our hand and thenpulling our body forward. Nice methodology. Best regards, Paul, 67. retired teacher.
I remember I learned freestyle swimming watching Franziska van Almsick during the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and further competitions later. Her freestyle technique was so beautiful and efficient, still one of the most aesthetic swimmers of all time, imho.
When I was a teenager I figured out how to swim a side stroke basically forever without getting tired. I would offset kicks and armstrokes coasting in between. Longest I swam was the length of the lake at my grandpa's cabin and back. About 7 miles, I wasn't tired at all and could have done it again. Lol. Once you figure it out you are good. Now I'm old and fat. Was out swimming with my daughter got a little winded after treading water for 10 min. Reverted to that side stroke to swim back in and regained my breath. It's so low energy.
I agree with one of the comments about your understanding and the animation used to how different they are to real life examples. you see the animation is simply a explanation to what you learned about swimming. Share some videos of yourself with your improvements and time duration with improvements. It helps with why your animation is set that way. I will acknowledge you got my attention to go back and take a second look at swimming. I thought I had it down but you pointed out something that was very weird which was the time duration. If that's true the perspective of swimming I agree with you
Everything You Need To Know To Swim Better: ruclips.net/video/zAkfpGSC5V8/видео.htmlsi=zBvzruAN9vxGst8J
Don't kick to keep your legs afloat. Distance swimming isn't the same as sprinting. It's like comparing jogging to 100m track.
As a competitive swimmer and swim instructor, watching this made me realize all of the techniques we unconsciously incorporate when swimming every day. Fantastic video, great portrayal of freestyle.
Life before death
Pro Tip:
Look at this image at 1:05. This is how to swim WRONG. While going forward, the whole body becomes a source of resistance, due to the angle.
The leg kick is actually one of the least effective means of propulsion. If you just do leg kicks, you could tire out before reaching the other side of the pool. It is extremely inefficient for propulsion. Don't cater to it.
That said, the leg kick is VERY efficient for raising the legs. You can do a lot of the leg kick at the hips. Keep your legs STRAIGHT not bent at the knees. You only want to kick your legs enough that your body straightens out like a bullet when you swim. No more than that unless you're definitely in sight of the finish line and have no concern at all for conserving energy.
The arm stroke is many times more efficient for propulsion than the leg kick. Not even close. All your real work is done by the arms.
Kick with your legs just enough to straighten out, and then use your arms to move like a rocket. Maybe a 10/90 or 5/95 split as far as effort. The effort you save in the legs can then be used for your arms and you will blast past everyone.
Most to least efficient propulsion:
1. Kicking off the wall or bottom of pool.
2. Pulling on a rope, such as the divider rope in the pool.
3. Using flippers.
4. Arm strokes.
5. Leg kicks.
6. Flapping around like Patrick Duffy in "Man From Atlantis". This does next to nothing.
For the kind of swimming described in this video, use MINIMAL leg kicks (just enough to keep your body horizontal) and maximal arm strokes.
This is how to win.
Very very easy to do, even for beginners. The way to find the sweet spot is to kick harder when moving forward (like they normally teach you) and then reduce the effort gradually until you feel your legs drooping down at an angle. This causes drag and you will lose speed fast. Kick just a little harder than that and you have found the sweet spot.
You will be able to go much farther because you're not burning oxygen at the same rate as before. You're not draining body energy as fast. You can therefore maintain a high speed for a very long time and sail right past your competitors.
Remember, you can use your hips and torso to "flick" your legs using even less effort. Utilize the torso rotation used to keep the stroke arm down, and let that "flow" down to your legs, kept stiff at the knees.
I don't lose races in the pool. Younger stronger guys are confused every time.
Swimming helps with scoliosis?
Don't think I've ever worried about swimming form but then again I've also swam competitively for like 12 years since I was 5 years old.
Follow this video series in order:
1- Swim with LESS Effort: ruclips.net/video/9Wm0kyjtmaE/видео.html
2- Is it really easier to kick less?: ruclips.net/video/GMuYSlli3io/видео.html
3- The Most Important Body Part In Swimming: ruclips.net/video/CxhHPhKEtSI/видео.html
4- The Speed is in Your Hands: ruclips.net/video/Qnk_W5rzs2I/видео.html
5- Correct Breathing: ruclips.net/video/DuYAuj7DkUs/видео.html
6- Correct Arm Movement: ruclips.net/video/16mF-BUQRfI/видео.html
7- How to swim faster: ruclips.net/video/2KhqIa5ates/видео.html
8- Beautiful Freestyle is the last step: ruclips.net/video/mID8Mu1_nKQ/видео.html
9- 5 months to swim 2.5 miles (From zero): ruclips.net/video/C0uBYuBmvw4/видео.html
10- The easiest way to swim: ruclips.net/video/F7yP2bcoRgM/видео.html
Maarten vd Weijden swim 116 hours the 11 city's in Friesland Netherlands
FAKE YOU WILL BE DROWN, YOUR BODY WILL GO DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Doesn't your beard create drag????!!!
Things we also did in club:
- Swim without putting your head in the water (keep head straight);
- Swim with your floaters on your legs
- Swim with your legs attached and without waving them.
- Swim with arm stretched in front of you and your leg attached and undulate like a dolphin, try to go as fast as you can.
- Swim on you back, only using legs and using your lung for buoyancy.
- Do the plank, arms and legs out, then expire until you touch the bottom (in a 3m pool)
- Weight your legs / arms and do the above
- Use "plates" for your hands and swims
- Use flippers
- If you don't wear swimming glasses, try to swim with swimming glasses while looking at the bottom (can be disturbing, especially when the pool is deep)
- Simple jump from pads without any splash and try to reach the other side without any "swimming" move
- Drop floaters with different buoyancy (So they are at different depths) and collect them all
- In the small pool (less than 1m depth), throw annulus all over the place and try to collect as much as possible before having to emerge
- In the small pool, run across the length
- Swim with a spongy pajama
In pair:
- Grab your partner from the middle of the pool and bring him on the side (or do a length)
- Grab feet of your partner and swim with your feet while he uses his arms, switch
- Fight under water
- In the small pool, compete with someone else to collect annulus without emerging
0:32 A-A-Ron? 😂 Key & Peel Joke?
I taught myself to swim just by watching youtube videos. I would watch & go to the pool to practise what I just watched. I'm a really good swimmer today & improving all the time.
Hey man how long did it take for you to become a good swimmer? I started swimming this week and have started watching videos and am hoping to get good soon
_I think swimming must be mandatory to be included in school curricula. Anything about extreme survival is worth teaching children and students._
Swimming is not extreme survival lol its a fun activity to do in summer and can save you in some RARE cases
@@shiparelli3448 _What I mean by extreme is what we don't do everyday that requires more skills, like traveling through water, unlike finding food & shelter, which are the most common & easiest survival skills. And I don't think it is rare anymore, since we are almost always surrounded by water [like in fishing, transportation, vacation, sports, where accidents can happen anytime]_
So true
@@shiparelli3448 do reaserch how many people and mainly kids dies just because of drowning, it is best if it's part of school
Makes sense if you live in bikini bottom
Best swimming video so far because it talks about both the physical coordination and mental calmness needed to be an efficient swimmer.
A-aron was faster than Belake? No waaay!
Jayquellin? Deenice?
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They were both sent to O’ Shag Hennessy’s office for suspicion of PED usage.
Finna send ya to ol shag Hennessy office
Lol 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
The most important steps to improve swimming endurance: 1) use fatigue resistant core muscles to generate force needed to pull arm through water; use fatigue sensitive arm muscles from shoulder to finger tip to maintain minimal tension needed to keep the arm in a catch posture, 2) maintain horizontal body position by swimming posture, not by kicking, 3)use proper catch position, 4) rotate, not lift, the head to breath, you can find air in the trough (depression) of water near your armpit, 5) learn to swim in a straight line, 6) do not hold breath, but release air slowly following inhalation as you would during normal breathing 7) meditate while breathing, 8) keep arm and hand close to center-line of body to generate more force while minimizing swaying right and left. Using core muscles: extend right arm forward, form catch position, thrust the right shoulder backwards while simultaneously thrusting left shoulder forward and thrusting your hip to rotate your body. These thrusting core body movements pull the right arm through the water. The right arm muscles from shoulder to finger tips maintain the minimal tension needed to maintain catch position and reduce fatigue, any less tension in the arm muscles would make the arm collapse. Feel the shoulder and body rotation pull the arm through the water. Horizontal body position: lie supine (face down) in water, lower the head, extend both arms in front, lower the arms with legs horizontal. If your legs begin to sink in the water, lower your head and arms more. If you get this right, you can easily swim in a perfect horizontal position with no kicking movements. Catch position: flex arm at elbow, point palm backwards to your feet, pull arm through water keeping the palm pointed to your feet. Your palm is like the flat surface of an oar, pushing your body forward. Meditate: focus on slow breathing and minimizing muscle tension of your entire body.
This was helpful, especially the importance of meditation. Thank you
blessed post
brilliant
Thank you so much for your articulate explanations. I really appreciate it
Thanks
Bruh.... You're Real deal!! I followed all your tutorial 2 year back...Didnt swim due to this covid outbreak... And it's hard in India to find one pool , Few days back I started back... Jumped twice a day , Reminded myself all your teachings, I came fastest here at company's PET!! ( PS- Once water was my biggest fear nd now people appreciate my speed here) thanks & keep up the Good work ❤
I'm 39 years old and I've been trying to learn how to swim for so many years. Many people have tried to show me but it doesn't work. I am a yoga teacher, so I have body and breath awareness, I am fit enough to cycle 100kms in a day, and I play the drumset with four limbs, so I have coordination, but swimming is by far the hardest skill I've ever tried to learn. I feel exhausted so quickly, and I feel like I'm not moving. I went to lessons last year and still didn't get it. My friend was trying to show me some stuff over the last few weeks and I feel I made a tiny bit of progress. For me it's like some kind of superpower. I have no idea how you all do it!
If you're exhausted quickly, might be you're holding your breath; if you do that, you will hold a bit of air in bottom of your lungs, then you'll do the same with next breath, and quickly you can't catch your breath. Practice breathing out as soon as you're face is underwater and expelling ALL air out of your lungs.
First you learn to play in the water. Forget about swimming. Just make friends with it. Use Goggles!
It's not about doing the crawl back and forth for 20 minutes. Have fun.
@@jovesheerwater Oh I've spent so much time in the water; in swimming pools, in rivers, in the sea. I love being in the water, and I have goggles, I just really struggle to learn the skill of swimming. I've recently realised that it might be the result of an incident when I was around six years old, walking into the deep end of the swimming pool, swallowing lots of water, and thinking I was going to drown. I remember I had lessons soon after and I was holding on to the edge, terrified, telling the teacher I thought I was going to drown. I guess there's been some mental block there ever since. I also got into a bit of trouble around five years ago, when I was snorkeling in Tenerife. I went out to what I thought was a very modest distance but when I tried to come back the current was very strong and I nearly didn't make it. I've been making a little bit of progress with the help of a friend the last few weeks so I'll keep practicing and see where it takes me.
@@sherrywhite1517 I'm actually very good at breathing out, it's the breathing in without taking in water that I struggle with, but it's improving a little bit.
@@sherrywhite1517 Thank you! it explains a lot to me!!!
Having experienced nearly drowning twice, watching your video has made me realise why I was never a confident or even competent swimmer, for someone like me, relaxing with my head underwater and my lower half not floating as it needed to caused much subconscious anxiety, which quickly manifested into very conscious anxiety, I'm definitely going to watch this video many times and practice swimming.
wow, im so proud of you. kudos to you for conquering your fears!
You really wanna swim without getting tired? Forget such useless techniques and just move like a gecko inside the water (of course with slower movements). You will have a very mild pace while saving tons of energies and if you administrate it well it makes you save even more energies than remaining in fixed position with legs down , at the same time you can move too. If you want to give more thrust you can occasionally move the legs like a frog does. You can soon naturally learn it , just keep in mind the movement of a gecko and you will quickly adjust the whole. That's honestly said by a person who was born by the seaside and has swam all life long , even against waves and currents , even underwater while exploring , and it works in a swimming pool too. People who are just going to learn swimming in a swimming pool will never be able to swim for long time such as in an emergency situation. At the swimming pool you learn techniques used to go fast in a competition and without adverse water conditions , swimming without getting tired is another matter. Often people who don't live by the sea are not able to truly swim by practical convenience and just apply the techniques they were taught in a pool. Not having much muscular mass helps a lot too , the ones having muscle mass get tired quicker and drown quicker , also having too much fat make you drown quicker though it protects you from the cold , and also being too skinny makes you drown quicker , both because energies and because you become more vulnerable to the cold , while a balanced body is the best type for surviving into the water for long time. I will not read possible replies so to prevent fanaticism.
Agree. Staying calm is KEY. Using goggles helped me see where I was at, how deep or shallow the water was and that calmed me down heaps. Not seeing where you are can play tricks on the mind, triggers panic, and a downward spiral from there. Snorkels can also help for absolute beginners.
@eg🏳️🌈⃠ Try goggles next time. Youll be so much calmer you could hold your breath for 20mins+ 😁
I practiced swimming for 70 hours and managed to swim. This channel helped me in improving a lotttttttt
Bro, day before yesterday, I was able to swim for the first time in my life. The motivation and guidance your videos provided was priceless for me in achieving my greatest bucketlist skill.
Thank you so much brother. Keep doing the good work, may God bless you.
Congratulations!!!!!!!
Its a bucketlist skill of mine too!
I also raced and finished IM Cozumel last November (swim leg in little under an hour). I started learning to swim on March of last year. I didn't have a swim coach, so all was thanks to RUclips and a lot of practice. Your videos were some of the most helpful, mainly the Aaron series. Thank you and greetings from Mexico!
Thank you! And congratulations on the IM
I have a phobia of swimming and the reason is when my shoulder fell while swimming what is the solution sir
thanks
The swim was with a current and short at 3.4Km, the course is known for it
This is encouraging to me....thanks!
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that he is Mexican
I learned to swim at 35 - I haven’t stopped ..365 days of the year. Transitioned to open water & I’m still learning to improve .. Helped me mentally / physically & I’m a better, calm person ! .. 🏊🏻♂️☕️
There is no better. You will never be better or worse than anyone including yourself. There is only weak or strong. Meditate on this while you swim.
you guys are soo good at explaining things! I took up masters swimming about ten years ago with coach who narrowly missed the olympics. So, I have heard a lot of this before, but your graphics and excellent videos make me really feel it. Thanks so much.
I've been swimming for a month. Now i can breathe on both sides .thank you for your videos . I still get tired but i can notice the small improvements!
"a-aron" , "b-la-ké"😂 👌🏿 I see you're a man of culture too!
😂 a lot of people that don't know are angry at me for pronouncing them like that
@@SkillsNT Hopefully, they are not going to war with you. :D
I honestly had no idea this was even possible. My girlfriend watched a video the other day where this boat capsized and the lady swam six hours to shore to find help. Unbelievable and amazing. I really hope to learn how to swim one day.
Why not start today...
Your last words are what stops you from learning. You just hope to learn, you are not learning by hoping, you are sitting ducks while hoping. Hope is never the driving force of progress.
@@alstallioX swimming classes are expensive 😅
@@chiamakae6416 Check at your local city rec center if you have one (not YMCA). I got swim lessons for my daughter (5) for free and mine was only like $40 for 4 lessons. Got me far enough to float and stroke and then work on getting better with technique on my own.
I'm a beginner swimmer. Your video is the most information-packed one I've seen and I watched a ton of videos. Thanks for what you do!
Hello :) I’m a beginner too! I find this video very informative. Thank you!
Thank you very much for this! I have been a swimmer my entire life, but I've never been comfortable with freestyle, as I use too much energy, so I will try your advice. I have a stroke I use, on my back, extend the arms over the head, frog kick while pulling with the arms. This is very easy for me and I can swim for hours this way, but you have given me renewed interest in freestyle. One further point - to anyone that swims in the ocean it is vital to have at least one stroke you can use that for you is at the same level of effort as walking. If you get pulled out by rip currents, simply look at the beach to see which way the current is taking you, then swim diagonally with the current towards the shore. Do not be in a hurry. You may end up well down the beach from where you went in.
My dad threw me in the pool at the age of 7 in order to "teach me to swim". That traumatized me from water and i had no more trust in even attempting to progress - It took years and finally with 55(!) i overcome my fear and taught myself to swim preferably in sea water - These kind of videos also support & help me to perfect my skills.
@@nomorealone9158 It aint so fun anymore when you are drowning, is it?
with you on that one!!! I was drowning in a pool with my mom watching (probably she didn't even get I was drowning).
My dad attempted to teach us to swim in a river nearby - his attempt was 3 minutes long, as we didn't get it the first time he got angry and never tried again, which lead to lot of other failings in my life to be honest. If i try something new and fail at the beggining I lose interest in trying on. Incredible how many of us have fears or complexes in doing things because of our parents.
Really important to prevent shoulder injuries is not crossing the center line of your body with your arms. Make sure you are rotating into the stroke and I tell all of my athletes to make sure they are moving in line with their shoulders! Most important lesson I have learned in my coaching career: keep good technique. People get tired and they start swimming sloppy which winds up in injury.
I’m a teacher and coach and the way you explained some of these concepts was brilliant!
Hi there, today i'm really really happy that I watched your video. I was trying to swim until my muscle feels tired, but I couldn't, my breath is short and become heavy, hyperventilate. I tried your test and got like 55s without tired. I learned your breath techniques and today I can swim 25m with only 1 breath, I'm so excited and swim for like 1.5h without stop and tired at all.
Everytime he said A-a-ron or Ba-la-kae I heard in the substitute teachers voice from Key and Peele.
My swim coach told me, "There's two types of swimmers: the power swimmer, and the lazy swimmer. You are a power swimmer. There's nothing wrong with that. But maybe, try being a lazy swimmer."
I'm a tall and skinny guy. Hypothetically, I should be like a torpedo in the water. However, there was a guy that was short, stocky, and a very pronounced beer belly, and he was the fastest sprinter in the club.
For every 3 strokes I did, he took one to go the same distance. And he was a lazy swimmer!!!
He always beat me in races.
Aaron and Blake (A aron and Bilake) 😂 Brilliant video, really helpful! I haven’t swam in years and I’m not even sure I still can. But due to an ongoing hip injury I’m trying something other than running. My goal is to cardio health and injury rehabilitation 💪🏾
I noticed A A ron as well 😀
@@joniversenI saw that too, Mr Garvey.
Its insane how good this video is. If you're starting to do front crawl and you have no idea how - this explain exactly how to do it! I had 1x1 training plus team groups sessions, and I know that just practise and training will get you there, sort of, but with the clear and perfectly showing how to and why and what in all these moves- it all came into place and I so get it ten times better now! Thank you!
Fantastic video!!! Thank you so much for your thorough explanations. I also truly appreciate how receptive you are to feedback from those who comment. Your work is truly having a positive impact in my life. I’m taking swim lessons and also watching these videos. Wishing you continued success! 🏆
Based on your videos I have been researching on swimming and water safety related life skill. I am glad that I have accumulated the gist on the topic.
It will be interesting to see what you have to say about Aaron rehabbing his knee. I picked up swimming maybe 15 years ago after a long lay off. I knew I had to get both hips and one knee replaced, and needed to lose some weight and get as physically ready as I could. End result was I got bilateral hips done, which is both at the same time, and a year later, the knee. I got through rehab in half the time that others did. Also, as soon as I was able to get back in the pool, which was 4 weeks after, Swelling vanished, and range of motion improved much faster. Zero impact and total aerobic exercise.
Thank you so much for your comment. I am about to go for a total ankle replacement and have to get fit and lose some weight too. So I went back to the pool after about 6 years. To know that swimming helped with your rehabilitation is great. I'll keep swimming till my surgery. Thank you.
@@projectembrace1964 Half of the preparation for replacement surgery if physical, and half is mental. For the physical, it helps build your circulatory system so your blood moves around more efficiently which helps speed the recovery. For the mental part, I did Thai Chi for years before my surgeries, so lots of meditational standing and breathing. You can learn to calm yourself. Between those two things, the surgeon said I was a perfect candidate for bilateral hip replacement. Good luck with your repair job!
LOL... I love the Kay and Peele references... A-aron and B-La-Ke
Nice video. I self taught myself how to freestyle swim a few years ago. I have always been a very week swimmer only able to swim 25-50 meters without having to stand. After losing a significant amount of weight over the last few months from weight training, I feel like I'm ready to jump back in the pool and try to get to 800-1000 meters. I know it will take work however I think that I will only be able to commit to swim training only once a week. I hope that this will be enough to reach my goal by the end of this summer.
I was trying to find somebody else who noticed HAHA
@@DisciplineDedicated+1 😂
you're pronuncing names like the substitute professor from the key and peele sketches :))))
informing and entertaining us. Love it !!
I knew i wouldn't be the only one who noticed!
2.5 months ago, I couldn't swim at all. Today, I easily swam 2000 meters (2187 yards). In about 9 months, I will need to swim full Ironman distance. The video is great and explains a lot, but it's even better to have a PT, who will say and repeat and explain. I never thought I will enjoy swimming so much :)
Thanks for these great videos. Had to give up 5-a-side at 55 and this has given me a whole new sport. Really helped me improve for distance races now in my late 60s.
I'm a strong swimmer, WSQ in the Marines, my father on ther hand was a smooth swimmer one of very few people ive ever seen who could swim upriver ( i was raised in Oregon) almost effortlessly. Thanks for explaining this in an easy to understand manner. I'll incorporate this and see if it helps me improve!
I've always had excellent running endurance but could never figure out why I get so exhausted after a lap of swimming and could never utilize my legs which feel like dead weight being towed under water.. thanks for this guide
The technics, coordination.
Me too, but after training constantly over months I can now swim easily 10 laps. You need to train, same as running.
It is not that easy with utilizing legs. You have to synchronize them with your arms, and it also depends whether you are doing sprints or swim longer distance.
Yea, it takes time. I am a runner too. Swimming is just whole new thing. It's more like your arm endurance rather than your legs. Good thing we have enough endurance for our legs. Just need to train the arms. Good luck . I am trying to complete a lap .
@@sundeepsinghbhullar6320 Like in most sports your whole body is working. Strong legs don't guarantee success.
Started swimming freestyle for the first time in Feb this year. Just completed my first non-stop 5-kilometre swim last week!
Nice work!
whos watching this while sitting on the couch
😂😂
Mee
Drinking beer and eating donuts right now sitting in my easy chair. But….. I swam a mile of laps and ran 9 miles earlier today. Difficult not to binge 😢
@@mottopanukeiku7406 average american
I would very surprised if someone is watching this while in the pool….
Thank you for this iv been swimming since last year and iv loved it but recently i think iv been overthinking about my strokes and breathing etc i started getting anxiety so after watching this video i made sure i relaxed and i swam alot better and alot more. That's what draws me back to swimming week after week for how it makes me feel thanks once again at age 42 i can finally swim. Tip to anyone else dont stop practicing but make sure to relax and enjoy it 😊
Thank you for adding Korean subtitles. Your swimming video is so effective and fun. It helped me a lot. Please continue to make good videos.
Best teacher ever. Thanks for sharing this video. I am learning swing just 8days
Rather than constantly kicking like the other swimmers shown in this video, the Swimmer at 5:24 kicks in tandem with his arm movement. Constantly kicking is tiring. I've been a horrible swimmer my entire life but when I learned of a technique called 'total immersion swimming' using timed kicks, I became a much better and more relaxed swimmer. Disclaimer: FWIW, I'm a non-competitive amateur. Great video. I just subscribed.
total immersion swimming was/is also the answer for me. shout out to Terry Laughlin and Tim Ferriss!
I wasn't sure I heard correctly when you called Aaron "A-A-ron" but then when you said "He was two minutes faster than Bla-kay" I immediately subscribed because Key and Peele characters transcending their skit into swimming tutorials is hilarious.
I liked the info in this video and I will keep it mind as I am looking to re-start swimming for cardio soon... but the pronunciation of "Aaron" kept reminding me of the Key & Peele classroom sketch 😅
... and "Blake" at 5:45.
This is just weird. They went to the trouble of making this video as a K&P tribute?? What's going on here??
Lol facts he said aaron and balake 😭😭😭😭
@@MichaelASchultz I’m too high for this 🤣🤣🤣 this randomly popped in my recommended
I learned to swim when I was 3 and now I am better because of your help I did not need a coach
For me swimming is a cardio workout like running (definitely not walking). You need to train to improve. After training a couple of months I can now swim for 30 minutes easily. When I started I needed a break after 2 minutes.
It's definitely not about cardio. I can run half of a marathon (can't say easily) or 12 minute sprint but few minutes of proper (more or less) swimming increases my heart rate dramatically. And a year of regular training hadn't helped. More over, I can feel increased heart bpm right now writing this text. It's something about ancient animal fear which can't be controlled at all.
@@igronus I didn’t mean that when you have a good condition at running you can also swim for a long time or vice versa. Same for other cardio workouts. You have to train it individually. And yes I agree, if you are anxious nothing helps. You need to control that first.
The things we learn late in life when our bodies are faulty and the opportunity is lost. Our schools has swimming pools back in the 50's and 60's. We were as just tossed in to the water, and fished out if we sank. That was the swimming tuition I recall. I never got to swim really, but could sometimes survive 25 metres. So I am not a swimmer and have avoided swimming. Now I have developed other issues that mean I will never swim. My point is that in my view, it is crucial, not only for children to have access to swimming pools, BUT to also have coaches who actually know about swimming. Watching this video, I am convinced my teachers knew nothing at all. But how many times could it have made a life saving difference! I recall in my twenties that a family friend's daughter got into trouble in deep water just a few metres from shore. I could not go in to help. But someone else saw and heard the distress, ran across the beach and dived in. He probably saved her life, and I felt bad. Swimming is a great capability as well as fitness and sport.
I really appreciate your videos including this !! I am good at freestyle & butterfly but poor at breast stroke and long distance swimming. Your video really help me. Thank you !!
There is one huge factor: leg length to torso proportion. Long legs with short torso is significantly slower than short legs with long torso. You can maximise your speed and efficiency for each body shape but, all things being equal in technique and training, the first shape is slower than the second. Just maximise speed and efficiency for your body. Beyond that, big hands and big feet is faster than small feet and small hands. Flexible ankles helps too. Final factors are height, arm length, and fast arms.
What if you have a big um................'third' leg ????
Why is that? I have long legs in proportion to my body. I have been swimming literally for years several times per week but it still takes me nearly an hour to swim a mile. I don’t over kick know how to breath stay in a streamline pull with my arms but still a turtle pace. Could that be why?
@@dantheman3022 you can go faster, use it to your advantage
As a swimmer for 30 years and swim instructor/coach for 15, the only thing you need to stay on top of the water is keeping your eyes looking straight down for freestyle, turn to your back to breathe then back to your stomach. if you can do this freestyle becomes very easy.
This sounds key. Thanks.
Nees to work on this. Maybe I need to focus on the back more than the face. Sometimes I can get my breaths in and sometimes I miss it smh 🤦🏾
no way , no matter what l do l sink and choke
Nice video. As a physical therapist (physiotherapist), I can inform you that pushing the shoulder forwards as you suggest is one of the ways the rotator cuff might be strained…
I'm in love with Aaron swim video series.....I am a beginner swimmer.....after watching above series today I felt so easier in swimming without getting tired.....thank you ❤️
I only swim to lose weight (plus I feel in my element and it helps me to relax and think). Never thought much about technique but this is a brilliant video. Thanks.
Same here❤
I'm an adult trying to learn how to swim. For fckn months I could not swim without kick board between my legs and even with it it was soo bad. Just this week I've been watching and rewatching videos with tips and so on....I DID IT I swam several length today experienced gliding in the water and had enough endurance to go in the pool waay longer than usual. Tips that made a difference to me: balance drills from smooth swimming videos. advice to NOT release the air slowly, kicking advice from smooth swimming and other videos. These made so the breathing was way easier for me then it was for ages. I was so hype i was smiling to everyone in the pool...I must've looked like total creep but was so proud of myself :D Thank you very much for all the videos and priceless advice. All the best to everyone contributing to these videos !!
Swim 50hours? I camt even walk for 6hours
1. try breathing less often to increase co2 tolerance
2. train rotator cups to avoid tendonitis
3. shoulder internal rotation when hand still in front, if not possible start pull more open, more out to side, palm facing backwards.
4. keep lats and pecs stretched,
5. push shoulder down while elbow near surface. 4:54 (internal rot injury?) not necessary for me
6. clean entry, shoulder rotation when hand enters water
7. bring had out more if waves. head up to make sure current doesnt take you.
I always panic when my head goes underwater because I imagine the shark from Jaws will just come up from under me and eat me.
Thank you, I have swimming test tomorrow. This was good revision.
Started swimming just a couble of weeks ago. Loving your videos so far, they're really helping me with my technique
Rather than constantly kicking like the other swimmers shown in this video, the Swimmer at 5:24 kicks in tandem with his arm movement. Constantly kicking is tiring. I've been a horrible swimmer my entire life but when I learned of a technique called 'total immersion swimming' using timed kicks, I became a much better and more relaxed swimmer. Disclaimer: FWIW, I'm a non-competitive amateur.
Check out Total Immersion Swimming. Once I learned that technique it changed everything. It made such a difference in effort that I went from hating swimming to loving it.
being calm under water made me achieve something i never thought i will achieve .
We're at a vacation , i got angry and jump into the pool it made me calm and i hold my breath for how many seconds , longer than the usual which not even pass 10 seconds . i remain in the water and calm my self down . Being calm really does help .
I've always found swimming impossible for me, since childhood. I'm tall and underweight and I feel like my body doesn't want to float at all, the effort it takes to swim just 10 meters is insane to me.
Same with me
Same here but practice is the key, always has been. Being 2 meters tall, roughly 30kg underweight (damn you hard gainer body...) and also long legs, the effort is massive. Its so frustrating to see kids flying past you like its nothing for them! But going to pool three times a week helped a lot to improve the endurance and now 1km of swimming is not so hard anymore. Occasionally was doing 1.5km and once tried baby marathon swimming course aka 2km swim which i was impressed i managed to do. Turned out it was already way past the moment I must have needed to get to next level, I was idling at 1km with my efforts already, but I was swimming frog style those 2km. It aint effortless still, I still have blackening on my eyes after 500m like Im at my limits but its not like it was before where freestyle swimming 25m and Im dead whale at the poolside... Swimming other techniques first helps before progressing to freestyle, frog is the easiest and with proper technique and practice you will be on par and better than most people swimming freestyle by itself already. Hardest must be butterfly which is still a bit no no for me. It is seriously hard one...
I don't need any help to float. I just put myself on my back, totally relaxed, watching the sky. Almost fell asleep once when I did it. Another time when I was on vacation I was floating on my back. Didn't think about it, but suddenly I was far away from the shore. But I calmlingly swam back. Wasn't even exhausted. So yeah, I guess I have mastered it.
Thanks a lot! You make the best swimming content on youtube! It's a great idea to collect all individual videos into blocks and supplement them with important little things. Special thanks for the graphics and animation - it's very visual.
Thank you!!
I agree. You guys are the best. I've learned and still learning a lot. Your videos are awesome. My swimming is improving from the knowledge received here. The Aaron series represents someone like me who just took up swimming since August 2021 and I am able to swim now and just working on better breathing technique and less kicking to conserve more energy. I am about to go swimming in about 30 minutes and will include the kicking while on the back in my sessions. Thanks again.
Good video! In my swim of 777 km in 30 days, it was difficult to keep the right stroke, but gliding is very important, I agree
That woman on 00:20 looked really tired though.
First of all, thanks for your training tips videos. They are helpful and useful to me as a self taught swimmer. I started to train myself for long distance swimming since November 2023, didn't realize that I could make it an hour without a break swim in freestyle. I have observed that there are 'issues' during my swimming. Hope you can offer me advice to improve or resolve these issues. 1. the first 20 mins, I will have sore shoulders. But once I passed beyond this point. I don't feel tire in my arms. 2. Often my right feet has cramp after 50 mins, I usually stop my kicking and continue without using my leg(s) for two laps. Then it seems to me that my cramp is gone. Your advice would be appreciated:)
Terry Laughlin, US Swim Coach for 45 years and Founder of Total Immersion Swimming method in 1988 designed a step by step sequence of drills including head lead balance and hand lead balance and superman glide. This demonstration of the skills including the drawings is copyrighted under Simon and Schuster publishing 1996, 2004 book entitled: Total Immersion: A Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster ,Easier. Total Immersion,Inc. releases a water proof swim guide with head lead, hand lead, and superman glide in the early 90's. the illustrations by Stephen Laughlin, also under copyright. When an author spends 4 decades of research and coaching at an elite level and has published work, it is plagiarism to copy manufacture, publish, distribute the authors work in part or whole without advanced written permission. A credit or footnote is required to source of the any written professional material. NOTE: your animation has U shape back strain due to inaccurate leading arm spear direction. This is a simple basic skill that goes with proper balance. I suggest the audience look at the Total Immersion books and streaming dvds.
yes. have been looking for this.
Ilyen videót még nem láttam. Nagyon köszönöm! Nagyon érdekes videó volt. Szeretnék én is megtanulni ilyen stílusban úszni. Mellúszást már csinálgatom, de csak magamtól próbáltam megtanulni. Hasonló elveket követve. Légzés, kis ellenállás, higgadtság, siklás közbeni pihenés. Nem versenyszerűen, de élvezetesen tudok így úszni. Balatont 3-szor átúsztam így 5.2km. Az erőnlétemhez képest sok, de jó próbatétel.
Egy kérdésem is lenne: Derékfájást lehet javítani gyorsúszással?
As a new swimmer and first Triathalon coming this year. 3:17 definitely didn't just freak me out 😅
That dude at 5:24 is so satisfying to watch. I want to get into swimming now.
We have a highly specialized way of movement in all environments! Walking heel toe, running on the ball of our foot, brachiating in trees, and all our weird swimming techniques, all thanks to our apeness.
I just can't stay afloat when I stop swimming.
Thanks, this video helped me a lot as I've always struggled to swim well and I'm not in bad shape! The 3D diagram helped too. I always assumed I had to have my body very-very parallel rather than finding a good balance point + using my lower legs. Thank you!
The only reason why i swim is because i am afraid of drowning.
1:13 wow this is so powerful ❤ I taught myself to swim and it was the fear of putting my head under water.
Gracias!buena explicación del encogimiento del hombro;me identifico con Aaron pq yo tengo todos esos defectos(y mas😅)al nadar pero los videos si que ayudan!!!!😊
I really like your videos as you make swimming look very easy. When I jump into the pool it's a totally different story. I really struggle as I get tired very quickly and I really put in alot if effort in my swimming. I don't have a swimming couch but I'll let you know if I get better. Thanks.
I've never felt so exhausted after a 7 minute video
Have you tried swimming slowly?
It's like running - if I run with a 7 (min/km) pace, I can run (almost) forever 😃
I start to adore swimming now that I take lessons, even though I was not born in a country with water or swimming tradition. Besides, I still have feeling that i’m gulping in too much water. But still love it!
A-a-ron faster than Balakay by 2 minutes?? C'mon man...
The most important thing in freestyle is maintaining your body as straight as possible along with your hand and leg. And dont drag your body too much deep into the water, stay light at the surface.. Imo
I got Corona and university. I am a little bit behind on classes. I really don't want to give up swimming. Any advice on how to keep up with school ans swimming 🏊♂️? How minimum should I go weekly and how long a stop is too much?
bold of you to assume that I can walk without getting tired
Jesus can change yr life ❤
You're a Muslim?
i have a swim marathon coming up, its a fundraiser for my team. sponsors can pledge a dollar(or more) per lap or simply send a flat rate.
my goal is 500 laps, so i can raise a little over 500 dollars.
most i can swim without having to stop is 200 laps
(each lap is 25yds)
this video is quite helpful thank you!
Loved the video and the Key and Peele homage.
Dear Authors, I appreciate your fist idea to get our body and mind acustomed to under water existence, before starting to swim. Horizontal alingment and legworks are then the steps to be covered. Frog legs can help much in thiks way, as wel as thos extra palm helping to feel better the anchoring of our hand and thenpulling our body forward. Nice methodology. Best regards, Paul, 67. retired teacher.
basically my favorite RUclips swim videos because the presenter seems so friendly. IDK about A-Aron though.
I have just started this sport ,and i simply love your content.
I remember I learned freestyle swimming watching Franziska van Almsick during the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and further competitions later. Her freestyle technique was so beautiful and efficient, still one of the most aesthetic swimmers of all time, imho.
Thank you for making the videos. I am learning how to swim. I will definitely keep watching your videos.
The best how to tutorial I ever watched on RUclips ! thanks for the great tips ❤
When I was a teenager I figured out how to swim a side stroke basically forever without getting tired.
I would offset kicks and armstrokes coasting in between. Longest I swam was the length of the lake at my grandpa's cabin and back. About 7 miles, I wasn't tired at all and could have done it again. Lol. Once you figure it out you are good.
Now I'm old and fat. Was out swimming with my daughter got a little winded after treading water for 10 min. Reverted to that side stroke to swim back in and regained my breath. It's so low energy.
I learnt more about swimming in this video than in my 50 years of 'swimming' !
loved the key and peele reference. This is a great video though, thank you!
A-a-ron? Be-la-ke?
LMAO 🤣
Who else recalled the "substitute teacher" from Key & Peele?
Consistency is key! Nice video, keep it up
I agree with one of the comments about your understanding and the animation used to how different they are to real life examples. you see the animation is simply a explanation to what you learned about swimming. Share some videos of yourself with your improvements and time duration with improvements. It helps with why your animation is set that way. I will acknowledge you got my attention to go back and take a second look at swimming. I thought I had it down but you pointed out something that was very weird which was the time duration. If that's true the perspective of swimming I agree with you