Do you watch prepared swimmers with envy as they seamlessly swim through the water? Or, on the other hand, did you take swimming lessons as a grown-up, just to discover that you could swim as well after weeks, months of instruction? Swimming requires good co-ordination. You have to move your legs and arms tandem, while…
Swimming as a sport is considered to be highly technical, even the physically fit newcomers sometimes find themselves in misery because they usually waste a lot of energy by swimming inefficiently their lack of technique has them floundering across the pool, as a result, they tire out quickly. We have made our mission to teach…
Swimming is perhaps an awesome approach to get fit, get flexible and toned up (a medium-paced swim can burn up-to 400 calories in just 30 minutes). For the vast majority of us who do not swim, a similar exercise can be noticeably exhausting. To conquer the fear of water the best you can do is…
The swimming part of a triathlon can sometimes be overlooked as a triathlon cannot be won from a good swim however being a strong swimmer has its advantages. The obvious ones being you are less likely to be in the main pack where kicks and elbows to the body, face can be frequent. Not the…
The general recognised best age to begin formal swimming lessons is 4 years of age. Should you wish to introduce your child to the aquatic environment prior to 4 years of age, baby and pre-school kids lessons do exist. Baby swimming lessons There is no set earliest date to start baby swimming lessons. It is…
Swimming conditioning varies considerably dependent upon which stroke, distance you are training for. There is the sprinters, sometimes termed ‘drop dead sprinters’ who complete 50m FC sometimes without taking a single breath, the middle distance swimmers, long distance swimmers who compete over 1500m in the pool and open water swimmers competing in distances of 25km…
Throughout the process of learning to swim, one thing I cannot recommend highly enough is practise. It is extremely important to practise what you have learnt on each lesson, if you have a 1 hour weekly lesson I suggest practising twice per week on top of this for the same amount of time in order to solidify what you have learnt. My top 5 locations to swim, all of which have areas for beginners to practise in are as follows.
In this article I will focus on the front-crawl which is the fastest of all strokes. As a swimming teacher in London I have come across many clients who have asked me “How do I swim faster?” In my opinion, the real gains are to be made in the stroke. The legs play a part…
