dry land core exercising

Hi everyone Does anyone know of any dry land core strengthening exercises, mainly to help with my body rotation in freestyle, and my general stroke in butterfly. Cheers Andy What's wrong with your body rotation at the moment? Have you been told things? Or do you feel anything wrong with it? Age? (roughly) Already member at some gym? And when you mention the fly, what would you like to improve? For fly, an excellent core exercise happens to be in the pool, simple, kick in all position, favor back. Also do kick on both sides. Arms extended over head. Kicking upstraight position, arms above water, kick kick kick. All good for core. Most people have enough core strength to rotate quite easily when swimming free style, especially at slow to moderate speed. As for fly, hmmmm I'd say you need abdominals which are very nicely trained whilst kicking (fly) on your back (abuse here, like n time 100m of this) and a fair core routine, dryland that targets core muscles, pilates does an excellent job at this. If you take a class, learn some exercises, and do them home you should have a lot of fun whilst improving ability to better feel body rotation and work the fly kicking too. Pure strength, or requirement for more power becomes important as you want to improve your sprinting abilitites. So if you're at the stage of learning to rotate (like early into your 'freestyler' career), then lifting heavy weight won't make any good to you.

Hi everyone Does anyone know of any dry land core strengthening exercises, mainly to help with my body rotation in freestyle, and my general stroke in butterfly. Cheers Andy What's wrong with your body rotation at the moment? Have you been told things? Or do you feel anything wrong with it? Age? (roughly) Already member at some gym? And when you mention the fly, what would you like to improve? For fly, an excellent core exercise happens to be in the pool, simple, kick in all position, favor back. Also do kick on both sides. Arms extended over head. Kicking upstraight position, arms above water, kick kick kick. All good for core. Most people have enough core strength to rotate quite easily when swimming free style, especially at slow to moderate speed. As for fly, hmmmm I'd say you need abdominals which are very nicely trained whilst kicking (fly) on your back (abuse here, like n time 100m of this) and a fair core routine, dryland that targets core muscles, pilates does an excellent job at this. If you take a class, learn some exercises, and do them home you should have a lot of fun whilst improving ability to better feel body rotation and work the fly kicking too. Pure strength, or requirement for more power becomes important as you want to improve your sprinting abilitites. So if you're at the stage of learning to rotate (like early into your 'freestyler' career), then lifting heavy weight won't make any good to you.