Swim drills

A swim workout is generally written in “sets” of yards or meters, and broken into sub-groups, to focus on different aspects of your fitness and swimming.

It may seem counterintuitive that by swimming slower, you can swim faster- but it’s true! These swimming drills for triathletes build strength & efficiency.

Power up your freestyle with 10 freestyle drills from some of the best coaches and swimmers on the planet.

One of the most common mistakes in technique that we see in all strokes is in the pulling motion of backstroke. Part of the reason for this technical error is that to pull correctly, a swimmer needs to rotate the body significantly from one side to the other. That involves more work. To avoid that extra work, swimmers often choose to minimize the amount of body rotation. To avoid breaking the surface of the water with the hand moving backward, which reduces power, swimmers find an easier…

In this article, we’ll provide advice, drills, hacks and tips on the benefits of swim training with a kickboard. #swimmingkickboard #swimkickboard

Swim Like A. Fish is now on PART 2 of our series on Backstroke Starts. Click here to read about the 3 Best Backstroke Start Drills.

The best way to get better at backstroke? Refine your technique! Regularly incorporating backstroke-specific drills into your warmup (or even a dedicated drill set) can pay off big time when it comes to speed and efficiency in backstroke. Remember: speed doesn’t mean much if your technique isn’t rock solid. Check out 5 of our favorite backstroke drills that help you improve your head position, stroke tempo, rotation and more, plus a free backstroke swim set to try!