Hello all. For an intro- I am a middle age fitness swimmer with no competitive experience. Hope to eventually find a masters team but on my own at the moment.
My ultimate goal is to be able to swim at 1:30 pace for 1000y+. That is far off for me at this point as I clock in between 1:55-2:00 right now. Max is 1:36s (all according to my swim watch, no pace clock where I swim).
I’d love to get some feedback on my technique. I watch a few YouTube swim channels but I’m not sure what would be best for me to work on next to improve. Hoping someone here could help!
I do know I definitely need to work on general cardiovascular endurance. I generally breath every stroke if swimming greater than 200y, but switch sides each lap. I tired to catch a little of both sides in this DIY video but didn’t plan it out that well.
https://youtu.be/xUOkLwwyc1k
Thanks!
Overall good technique but 2 recommendations- 1) your hands seem to stay at the sides of your body and your arms stay pretty straight as you pull through the water. I was taught and also coached age groupers to push down the center line of your body. It requires you to bend your arm almost in an “L” position. You get more power that way. 2) as someone else pointed out, your head is pretty low in the water. Again, I was taught to try and keep the water line breaking at the top of my forehead keeping a portion of the head out of the water vs. all under water.
Overall good technique but 2 recommendations- 1) your hands seem to stay at the sides of your body and your arms stay pretty straight as you pull through the water. I was taught and also coached age groupers to push down the center line of your body. It requires you to bend your arm almost in an “L” position. You get more power that way. 2) as someone else pointed out, your head is pretty low in the water. Again, I was taught to try and keep the water line breaking at the top of my forehead keeping a portion of the head out of the water vs. all under water.
