or the favorite of the tri ponces, bodyglide or ky jelly! the only kick drills i've done is holding onto a float and doing a few lengths kicking. core strength can also help keeping your legs up.i found the TI book quite helpful when i started swimming crawl

http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=12790what are your thoughts? Very interesting WW. Especially as it puts me on the don't bother with drills side. I only do drills on 2 out of 3 swims if I count my masters as drills. Might start to up

As a wannbe runner who is plagued by injury at every turn I took up swimming.  With a DVD of drills I've taught myself to swim; I've improved rapidly by doing these drills over and over.  As well as an imroved style they have developed more balanced

Iv just registered with the My Swim Fit website. My swimming is very average so thought the swim drills would be useful. The 3rd session(of 100)advises using a pull buoy/float to work the arms. Does anyone else ever use these or find them useful? I

For Tri swim programme that came free with 220 magazine.  PM me your address and I will pop it in the post. Hi Richard I have the swimsmooth DVD and found it usefull for the drills.  If you have been on the swimsmooth website you should have seen the "Mr

HiDoes anybody out there know of any good books aimed at improving swimming for a beginner. I've been using 'Total Immersion' by Terry McLaughlin. Gives a series of drills that help with swimming on your side and getting the right rhythm. A bit

Hi allJust wondering if someone does use fins while swim training ...if so, how and when do you use them? I keep reading articles and swim training books where they recommend fins to promote leg kick strength and mechanics and also for drills so you

but have swum IM times between 1:40 down to !:12m so dont panic to much on the swim front A lot of Finks swim sessions assume that you can swim and swim the distance effectivelyWU = warm upDR = DrillsCD = Cool downIf you cannot swim the 2,500 in one go

While on my morning swim today I tried the breathing drills I have learned from the good people on this forum, I did 1 length of breathing after every 5 strokes, then 4 strokes, then 3 and repeated a couple of times and quite enjoyed it, however

I really want to improve my swimming - in the attempt that one day I might think about a triathlon...  So to those ends I have had a few swimming lessons so now manage to swim a length and even manage to do it not on one breath!Will be continuing