length with your hands curled in fists - this will encourage the use of the forearm to catch water and help propulsion. It's one of the best drills for learning how to feel the water you are trying to move through.More swim drillsThe drills above are easy

Swim DrillsPractising technique is crucial for efficient swimming. If you’re wasting energy by swimming incorrectly, the chances are you’re losing speed. Drill work – focusing on specific elements of your stroke for short periods of time – pays

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

select set of training aids, along with interval training and drills, will help to fine-tune your technique. Whether you're a beginner or an elite swimmer, there are certain items you should have in your swim bag. Training aids improve technique, develop

intuitive understanding of the most fluent way to move through the water," says swimming coach Terry Laughlin. "But anyone can learn this fluency with a few simple drills."Laughlin suggests the four below. With each, swim short intervals (25 metres or so

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

to add swim drills to your session.Swim drills are great for improving swim technique because they isolate areas of the stroke that may be deficient or imbalanced. Coaches prescribe drills to their swimmers for this reason and to add variety to training