Increase Front Crawl Speed
How can I increase front crawl speed? I can swim front crawl well but would like to be able to swim much faster overall
Increased swimming speed is achieved with increased efficiency.
In other words you have to make your body move more easily through the water without increasing the level of effort you put into kicking and pulling.
How do you do that? Perfect your technique so that your stroke becomes smooth and effortless.
First of all your body position must be long, flat and streamlined. Feet and hands must be together to give the position a point at each end. This position must then be maintained as near as possible during the stroke cycles.
Make your strokes long by stretching far forward with each arm action. This makes you cover as much distance per stroke and then results in swimming a length of the pool using fewer strokes.
Maintain your body position during breathing by rolling the head to the side. Avoid lifting the head to look forwards as this destroys your body position and forces you to use more energy.
Many swimmers make the mistake of kicking faster or pulling with the arms harder and faster. The result is a faster length of the pool but it will probably be your only length of the pool because you will be too tired to do anymore!
Try counting your strokes for each length. For example, count the number of arm pulls it takes you to get from one end of the pool to the other. Then adjust your technique and swim a length by stretching further and pulling longer with each arm pull. The result should be a length swum using fewer arm pulls.
Stroke counting is a good way of keeping check on how efficient your swimming strokes are.
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