Competitive Swimming Techniques

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Stephen Taylor; Endurance Coach and Fitness Trainer. My company is called STtrainer.com. I'm here to talk about techniques for competitive swimming. The materials you'll need to practice competitive swimming can be as simple as a swimsuit, cap and goggles. The secret to structuring a serious competitive swim practice correctly is to include the correct components in the program. A warm up is extra gentle, very easy swimming to get the feel for the water and to adapt your body to exercise for that session. Next, the drills are where you can practice perfecting your technique and your form. Drills also serve to warm you up additionally and also improve your feel for the water. By the time you finished the warm up and the drills, you're ready for a set. A swim set is different distances of swimming intersperse with periods of rest. This allows you to swim with better form at a higher intensity and do more swimming like this. For instance, a popular swim set might be ten times one-hundred yards. One-hundred yards is down and back two times in a typical pool and this could be separated by anywhere from five seconds to thirty seconds of rest. Swim a hundred yards, brief rest; one-hundred yards, brief rest. Finally, remember to cool down so that your muscles are not shocked by ending an intense workout too quickly. It's also a good idea if you want to learn to be a competitive swimmer to practice on other strokes. Now you maybe a triathlete like me or you may specialize in freestyle; but learning backstroke, breaststroke and fly strokes correctly will make you an overall well-rounded swimmer. In conclusion, if you would like to be a competitive swimmer, learn to do the things that a competitive swimmer does. Include the correct components in a swim workout; use the correct equipment and learn to do the sophisticated techniques that swimmers do such as flip turns, streamlining and using a pace clock."