Thanks to the lady for sending in the video for review. Excellent swimming tips, as always. What I'm finding is that as one element of my swimming improves and I become more comfortable, another swimming tip takes on more relevance. I'll be in the pool tomorrow and I'm looking forward to ensuring that my hands are below the wrist and below the elbow on the catch. I recently spent time bring my hip rotation inline with the shoulders - the difference is fantastic.
Kudos for choosing someone with this current pace as it is very relatable. I also commend you on your superb coaching. It feels so hopeful, possible and non judgemental! Easy bite sized pieces to digest and bonus points for including the “why” for each recommendation. Can’t wait to practice your suggestions.
I started swimming regularly for the first time 6 months ago, at the age of 35. I can proudly say I currently do 2:00 - 2:004 per 100m. I solely swim 2-beat-kick. Learned a lot from this channel
Thank you for these. I watched a bunch of you recent videos. I have a test for work Wednesday where I need to swim 500m in 12 mins after several other strenuous tests. I've gone from 14mins to 10:30, 500s watching these and training hard. Thank you!
I tried your tips last week and I was sitting at around 2:40. This week, after getting a hang of everything new to concentrate on, I managed 2:30 three times in a row! So thank you, all these tips really work!
For the breathing part, I never really thought about that. For me, I am pretty sure I inhale and exhale through my nose and mouth. Will check tomorrow in the pool. For her swim stroke, and keeping both hands in the front quarter, if she is attempting the gallop style of freestyle, she is not at a high level of that. I believe you swim gallop style which pretty much all men do other than for the 50 meter sprint. One hand does stay out in front for a bit, the breathing side arm, and pauses slightly, then when the other arm recovers, it is a quick 1, 2, pull and then the slight glide. This does result in a bit of a head lift for the breathing since the swimmer is using a bit of a porpoise action, and that results in the head and shoulders going under water for a bit. This is actually a reduced drag position. The arm stroke cadence is uneven. I have seen a couple of people showing Katie Ledecky swimming this way with Ariarne Titmus in the back ground. Ariarne does use an even cadence arm pull and always has both hands in the front quadrant. Katie does not. With the uneven cadence for one arm pull, both arms are in the front quadrant, but for the other arm, they are not, with one arm being at the half way of the pull. I remember you commenting about a swimmer who was swimming this way a couple of years ago and you commented some thing like "well, he is close enough".
I like the references to how it should feel in the body when swimming, for example when kicking in the right way. In the water I cannot see my body position but feel my muscles and hear the water splashing and flushing.
I really love "Feedback Friday", so weekend is coming soon. Thanks a lot for your great teaching and also to your athletes, so we can learn from them! Greetings from Germany to Down Under!
Thank you very much for leading the way, very helpful coaching. I would like to ask you about the catching air frequency to provide you know, "speed gain". For instance, here this woman does every arm rotation.
There isn’t an objective answer to this. And that’s because people come to swimming with different backgrounds in sports, different anatomy, different age and different physiology. I think it’s more about how quickly you can improve and continue to improve.
I am curious with what you say about hip position. I am a kinesiologist and decent competitive swimmer (55s for 100m fr), I swim with anterior pelvic tilt with stretched out rectus abdomunis to stay long. When I try to swim with posterior tilt I feel useless and dead in the water. I told a client to use more anterior tilt but you saying the opposite is making me question it.
I think there could be two significant things to consider here: firstly, it's relative - what is the person's starting position/tendency re. their pelvis? If you are giving a corrective instruction, you look at what they're doing now, and try to counter it. The swimmer in the video looks to be too much anteriorly tilted, dropping the top edge of the pelvis down too much towards the bottom of the pool, so they need to tilt to posterior. @Haglar6 may have strong (tending to tight/overcontracted?) abdominal muscles that keep the top edge of the pelvis back towards the water surface, and does better releasing some of the abdominal tension and keeping the front body long. Secondly, people do different things with their thighs in response to the instruction to tilt the top of the pelvis forward or back. Standing up, you can try this out. You could tilt the top of the pelvis forwards (anterior), and accompany that by bending your knees and sticking your bum out/tailbone back - this brings the thighs forwards as the knees bend. That's a bit like what this swimmer is doing in the water. Or, you could tilt the top of the pelvis back/posteriorly (tailbone forward) while hardly bending the knees, and have the whole tilt of the pelvis throw the thighs forward - because as the top of the pelvis tips back, the lower part of the pelvis tips/rocks forward, taking the thighs with it. If you did that swimming, it would push the thighs/legs down in the water. So, identify your own tendency, and correct it towards the happy medium. Does this make sense? Sorry about long post (it would have been easier to demonstrate!).
Love how clear and practical your instructions are, very easy to follow. One thing I’ve been thinking about is how the mental side plays a huge role in hitting those pace goals. We’ve been building an app that helps athletes prepare mentally through guided visualizations and AI journaling. Would be cool to connect and maybe explore a collab-mind if I send you an email?
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Thanks to the lady for sending in the video for review. Excellent swimming tips, as always. What I'm finding is that as one element of my swimming improves and I become more comfortable, another swimming tip takes on more relevance. I'll be in the pool tomorrow and I'm looking forward to ensuring that my hands are below the wrist and below the elbow on the catch. I recently spent time bring my hip rotation inline with the shoulders - the difference is fantastic.
Feel like there’s a disconnect between shoulders and hips with my shoulder over rotating and my hips under. How did you work on connecting them?
@@mitchymenis Try tightening your core a bit. You want to be a "Log" on the water. When the log rolls in the water, the *entire log rolls.
Kudos for choosing someone with this current pace as it is very relatable. I also commend you on your superb coaching. It feels so hopeful, possible and non judgemental! Easy bite sized pieces to digest and bonus points for including the “why” for each recommendation. Can’t wait to practice your suggestions.
I started swimming regularly for the first time 6 months ago, at the age of 35. I can proudly say I currently do 2:00 - 2:004 per 100m. I solely swim 2-beat-kick. Learned a lot from this channel
Thank you for these. I watched a bunch of you recent videos. I have a test for work Wednesday where I need to swim 500m in 12 mins after several other strenuous tests. I've gone from 14mins to 10:30, 500s watching these and training hard. Thank you!
Awesome!🙌
I am a 41 year old man with backpain. I learned swimming last year when i was approaching 40. My time for 100m freestyle is 2min 54sec on the average.
I tried your tips last week and I was sitting at around 2:40. This week, after getting a hang of everything new to concentrate on, I managed 2:30 three times in a row! So thank you, all these tips really work!
I’ve been stuck at that level for so long, and your advice was a real eye-opener. Thank you for making progress in swimming feel so achievable! 💯
Wonderfully helpful. I find such ‘newish to swimming’ videos very educative. Thank you both
For the breathing part, I never really thought about that. For me, I am pretty sure I inhale and exhale through my nose and mouth. Will check tomorrow in the pool.
For her swim stroke, and keeping both hands in the front quarter, if she is attempting the gallop style of freestyle, she is not at a high level of that. I believe you swim gallop style which pretty much all men do other than for the 50 meter sprint. One hand does stay out in front for a bit, the breathing side arm, and pauses slightly, then when the other arm recovers, it is a quick 1, 2, pull and then the slight glide. This does result in a bit of a head lift for the breathing since the swimmer is using a bit of a porpoise action, and that results in the head and shoulders going under water for a bit. This is actually a reduced drag position. The arm stroke cadence is uneven. I have seen a couple of people showing Katie Ledecky swimming this way with Ariarne Titmus in the back ground. Ariarne does use an even cadence arm pull and always has both hands in the front quadrant. Katie does not. With the uneven cadence for one arm pull, both arms are in the front quadrant, but for the other arm, they are not, with one arm being at the half way of the pull. I remember you commenting about a swimmer who was swimming this way a couple of years ago and you commented some thing like "well, he is close enough".
5:45 great tip coach! awesome video! congrats from Sao Paulo Brazil!
Thanks for your great analysis of a really relatable case! It is always very understandable and I learn, what to look for on my own.
I like the references to how it should feel in the body when swimming, for example when kicking in the right way. In the water I cannot see my body position but feel my muscles and hear the water splashing and flushing.
I really love "Feedback Friday", so weekend is coming soon. Thanks a lot for your great teaching and also to your athletes, so we can learn from them! Greetings from Germany to Down Under!
Thanks
Thank you!
Great advice - I need to do all of that too.. 👍
Thank you very much for leading the way, very helpful coaching. I would like to ask you about the catching air frequency to provide you know, "speed gain". For instance, here this woman does every arm rotation.
My two cents is if I deliberately try to bend my wrist so the fingers go down it forces the elbow to go up. Hence the high elbow position.
How do you set up your videos? How does the sync of iPad and Frontal Camera work?
Can you define an average of good 100m times for beginners, intermediates and advanced?
There isn’t an objective answer to this. And that’s because people come to swimming with different backgrounds in sports, different anatomy, different age and different physiology. I think it’s more about how quickly you can improve and continue to improve.
Do you want to review my swimming? I really need some tips on that.
It also appears as her hands are pulling her "down" at the end of the stroke, instead of pushing backwards...
Big time!!!
great video
I am curious with what you say about hip position. I am a kinesiologist and decent competitive swimmer (55s for 100m fr), I swim with anterior pelvic tilt with stretched out rectus abdomunis to stay long. When I try to swim with posterior tilt I feel useless and dead in the water. I told a client to use more anterior tilt but you saying the opposite is making me question it.
Yeh would like to understand this. I find it really hard to lengthen unless I stretch out which makes me anterior tilt
I think there could be two significant things to consider here: firstly, it's relative - what is the person's starting position/tendency re. their pelvis? If you are giving a corrective instruction, you look at what they're doing now, and try to counter it. The swimmer in the video looks to be too much anteriorly tilted, dropping the top edge of the pelvis down too much towards the bottom of the pool, so they need to tilt to posterior. @Haglar6 may have strong (tending to tight/overcontracted?) abdominal muscles that keep the top edge of the pelvis back towards the water surface, and does better releasing some of the abdominal tension and keeping the front body long.
Secondly, people do different things with their thighs in response to the instruction to tilt the top of the pelvis forward or back. Standing up, you can try this out. You could tilt the top of the pelvis forwards (anterior), and accompany that by bending your knees and sticking your bum out/tailbone back - this brings the thighs forwards as the knees bend. That's a bit like what this swimmer is doing in the water.
Or, you could tilt the top of the pelvis back/posteriorly (tailbone forward) while hardly bending the knees, and have the whole tilt of the pelvis throw the thighs forward - because as the top of the pelvis tips back, the lower part of the pelvis tips/rocks forward, taking the thighs with it. If you did that swimming, it would push the thighs/legs down in the water. So, identify your own tendency, and correct it towards the happy medium. Does this make sense? Sorry about long post (it would have been easier to demonstrate!).
Love how clear and practical your instructions are, very easy to follow. One thing I’ve been thinking about is how the mental side plays a huge role in hitting those pace goals. We’ve been building an app that helps athletes prepare mentally through guided visualizations and AI journaling. Would be cool to connect and maybe explore a collab-mind if I send you an email?
I'd like to know who are the ten a$$h0/3$ are that disliked this excelente instrucion. 😎
Another excellent free instruction thanks ES!