Your WORST Swimming Mistake

if you didn't learn to swim as a child this mistake is probably holding you back what i'm going to tell you in this video can seriously change the way you swim after this you may swim faster and with less effort the most common mistake we see in our technique camps is low knees the solution is very simple but we hadn't found the best way to explain it until today before telling you the solution i have to explain why this mistake is so common people who run or who practice cycling almost always kick with their knees too low it is very natural for the body to want to bend at the hips to move forward faster we do that when we run or when we want to move faster in the bike but in swimming this causes a lot of frontal resistance and makes swimmers tired very quickly in all the camps we have told swimmers to stretch their hips and raise the knees the improvements were good for the few days of the camp but it wasn't until yesterday that i got into the water and found an easier way to explain the solution the solution is not directly on the hips or knees it is on the glutes i tried to exaggerate the solution to see which muscles felt the most active i immediately felt and remember that the glutes are responsible for extending the hips the hamstrings also help with this action but are a bit more difficult to activate mentally by activating the glutes the hips are extended and the knees rise up i told mariana the advice and the improvement was immediate but she asked me something that you're probably wondering too do i have to swim like that all the time with the glutes activated very often in swimming we want to solve deficiencies in technique with very aggressive efforts but most of the time the improvements come with subtle changes in certain muscles so if you have the same problem and the same doubt i'll tell you the same thing i told mariana practice exaggerating glute activation for 25 or 50 meters then swim again relaxing little by little repeat this until you find the least amount of effort necessary to keep your knees very close to the surface of the water practice it a lot because it is one of the main changes that will make you swim faster and with less effort then you'll find the subtle way to also activate the hamstrings and you'll swim better the same problem happens many times in backstroke by having the hips bent the knees come out of the water the knees should never come out of the water so activate the glutes on the backstroke tube this will make you swim in a smaller area to feel the activation of the glutes try doing this stand on one leg and bend your knees slightly now pull your knee back until it's behind the other leg that is the muscle that you should activate whenever you're swimming another way to practice it is face down on the ground and kicking moving your knees up if you like this video here are other two that you love if you're interested in our swimming technique camps click here see you there swim fast you

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Length: 3min 5sec (185 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 18 2021