SWIM TIPS

I'm posting articles that may be helpful.
Please keep in mind that many opinions exist about how to swim "correctly."
Lots of these links show the demonstrator's way of accomplishing the task at hand.

How To Swim  Perfect Freestyle on YouTube is a very good explanation of what we do in Swim Clinic.

Three Beginner Freestyle Tips on YouTube outlines the underwater part of freestyle that is used by most competitive swimmers. The video link to Underwater Freestyle, below, shows a version of the method I teach to focus on the underwater without having to think, also, about the above-water recovery.

Underwater Freestyle -- This exercise is the foundation of how we teach freestyle.  Getting the underwater segment of the stroke is paramont to modern thinking of how to swim well.  If you watch elite swimmers, you'll see a decent amount of variation in their over water recovery but little variation in their underwater mechanics.

Pre-meet breakfast:  Super Duper Oatmeal (maybe a little overboard)

The Science of the Front Crawl from SWIMMER 
This is one of my favorite pictoral explanations of contemporary freestyle underwater dynamics.

Swimming Faster Freestyle--30 minute YouTube video with Dave March (Olympic team coach)  This video reflects a lot of what we teach in private lessons and in swim clinic.

Is there a "right" way to swim freestyle.  A short description of several types of underwater pulls and the rationale for each.

10 Steps to Swimming Faster Freestyle

Freestyle Swimming:  Picking the Righ Technique

Lots of videos from The Race Club

Chloe Sutton has a YouTube channel with lots of good stuff.

Kara Lynn Joyce.  The top video on this link is short, but it illustrates the freestyle that I like to teach as a starting point.

Kara Lynn Joyce Freestyle next to a regular guy.  Notice the difference.

Downhill Swimming  - An article about how to get  the feel you experience when you are balanced "up front" in freestyle.

Some Freestyle Drills  -- includes "underwater freestyle"

• Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen:  Faster Freestyle Swimming
  Part 1:  Hand Placement:  How to properly set up the stroke
  Part 2:  Fingertip orientation:  High elbow catch
  Part 3:  Wrist Awareness and The Power of the Y
  Part 4:  Umph at the Front:  Where to apply the power
  Part 5:  Exiting the Stroke efficiently to reduce drag

Common Freestyle Breathing Mistakes  Stu Kahn

10 Ways to Reduce Frontal DragUSA Swimming  Tips & Training (See the bottom of this linked page)

Entry Position for hands on freestyle

Breaststroke Drills (I made this video.)

Michael Phelps:  Butterfly 01

Misty Hyman SloMo underwater fly

Swim Swam:  An on-line swim magazine.  Free

Go Swim:  An on-line technique site.

7 Reasons to Include Interval Swim Training in Your Workouts

Shoulder Injury in Competitive Swimming: Strategies for Early Identification and Prevention

Ten Photos That Show You Why Katie Ledecky Swims Faster Than You

Give it a TRY.  A primer for newbies on the swim part of triathlons.  Disclaimer:  I'm quoted.

On Warmin Up.  Current thinking on warming up contends that dynamic (vs static) warm-up is more productive. 

101 Sports Nutrition Tips  - I use this book a lot.  The author was my in-town nutrition guru till she moved.
100 Best Swimming Drills - lots of easy to understand drills
Janet Evans' Total Swimming -good technique descriptions and lots of workouts
Coaching Swimming Successfully - the intro book for high school coaches from THE guy in high school swimming
Fitness Swimming Good technique descriptions.  Lots of workouts.
Strength Training Past 50   The title speaks for itself.
Dover Solo  - My friend Marcia Cleveland's tale of her English Channell training and swim
Swimming to Antarctica  (an inspirational must)  The Best Ever motivational book that was not written to be motivational.  Lynn Cox is THE marathon swimmer.