🏊🌊 #100: Can't grasp the butterfly motion? The undulation movement comes out of your sternum and the rest of the body just follows, so next time you are in the pool, lay on your stomach, arms at your side, face into the water and only move your chest up and down and try to create a wave. Don't forcefully kick with your legs, let them follow in the wave. Keep the back of the head at the surface (if that is tough, you can move your head up and down to help with the wave, but eventually you want to get it stationary and only use the sternum). Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #99: Change up your freestyle stroke a for a bit and if you swim with high elbows try straight arm swimming and if you swim with straight arms, try high elbow recovery. You'd be amazed how different it feels and you might find something you didn't know before. Furthermore, recognizing that something is off in your stroke or the ability to change your stroke is all part of swimming education and will make you a better swimmer in the long run. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #98: Don't try to struggle with full stroke butterfly. You will get more out of swimming one arm butterfly drills. So, don't feel like you are cheating or being lazy. One arm butterfly will allow you to focus on technique for longer period of time. Also, try breathing to side like in freestyle instead of forward during the one arm swimming :). Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #97: Doing a 2 beat kick is not easy to master, so why not start from vertical position. Float vertically in the water with your head out, arms at your side and kick with one foot to rotate your body the other direction (of course you already know you have to use your opposite hip to drive your body :)) Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

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🏊🌊 #96: Hips Hips Hips. It seems simple, but try to think of your freestyle swimming stroke starting with the hip roll. You have to drive your top hip down in order to have smooth transition from side to side. "Say no to swimming on your stomach and get skating from hip to hip". Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #95: ?While swimming in open water, you need to be able to sight (raise your head) to see whether you are swimming straight or not. When you do this, your legs drop which causes you to loose speed. Next time you sight forward, increase your kick speed for a slight bit during the time you are raising your head, this will keep your legs from sinking too much. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #94: Do not bring your high elbow freestyle approach from your pool to the open water. Open up your stroke a bit more by not bending your elbows above the water too much. Keep those arms more straight when going through the air and you will will feel much better rhythm and by swinging your straighter arm, you will have more momentum in it. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #93: Hips are an integral part of swimming. So use them. Each rotation you do in backstroke or freestyle starts with the hips. Get use to it by doing some vertical kicking while rotating hips from side to side after 6 kicks. Roll your hips :). Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #92: Composing your swim workouts isn't easy & even though there is a lot of workout samples floating around on the net adapting it to your ability is not much easier. Keep it simple. Pick one area of your stroke to focus on & just evolve your workout around it. Why not work on kicking this weekend with a good vertical kick set 10x30s ON / 30s OFF and keep the body nice & tall (no toilet sitting postures). Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 Swimming Tip #91: Get back to basics this weekend and challenge yourself to slow down and work on side balance drills and rotation drills, so basically you only need your legs :). Bring fins to make it more fun and so you can focus on body position and not trying to survive. Keep those hips at the surface and eyes on the bottom of the pool when not breathing. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #90: Let's do some resistance training this weekend. Grab a pair of shorts with at least one pocket and swim a set of 10 x 50 where you have 10meters/yards all out swim for every 25. The rest is easy. Work on rotating your arms as fast as possible while maintaining 6 beat kick (3 kicks for every one arm stroke). Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #89: Get your head with your upper body below your knees before you start flipping your legs over. Don't rush the turn and make it nice and small. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #88: Swimming down hill is a cliche, but seriously try it. Push your chest deeper into the water & see what happens. Play with it! Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #87: Practice swimming more with your forearm by swimming with only a few fingers. Try 2 or 3 fingers, the rest closed. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #86: To be faster, you need to train at high speeds. Put some fast, but short sprints into your workouts with a lot of rest. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #85: Swim 4x50 freestyle & focus on finishing your stroke all the way to a straight arm. You'll feel a good burn in your triceps. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #84: Start in dead man's float. Start extending your arms forward along the water line, keep your head down and see if your legs rise. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #83: Remember that during freestyle your front/bottom/supporting arm has to be extended while you take the breath, otherwise you have no support. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming

🏊🌊 #82: Kick on your stomach with your arms in the high catch position (like a scare crow). Push elbows in front of your shoulders. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog 🌊 Keep on #swimming