Swimming Drills

Hi, this is Erin, the Sunday night Swim Coach. I was asked to post some of the drills we do. So here they are organized by purpose.

Body position elongation

Streamline Kick - one hand on top of the other, arms are fully extended above your head so that your upper arms are squeezing your head right behind your ears.

Catch up drill - one hand always stays above your head in the streamline position, the other arm takes a stoke. When one hand catches up to the other in the streamline position, switch arms.

Body position and rotation drills

Side Kick - bottom arm extended above your head, palm faces down, top arm at hip, balance on side with stomach facing the wall, head looks down at bottom of pool and turns up to breath.

6 and switch - same position as side kick but you take 1 stroke and switch sides every six kicks

6 and 3 - same position as side kick, but you take 3 stokes and switch sides every six kicks

Breathing drills

Catch up drill with a kick board - same as catch up drill above but the extended hand is always holding on to a kick board to ensure you hand stays extended while you breath. Should breath every third stroke.

I will post descriptions of additional drills as we use them.

I will also post the Sunday night workouts here.