Swimming Tips and Advice to Boost Your Swimming Ability

Need Some Simple Swimming Tips?

We can help boost your confidence and fine-tune your technique

Need some simple swimming tips? Are you learning to swim and need some helpful encouragement? Is your swimming technique letting you down?

Swim-teach.com offers professional swimming technique tips and offers practical advice on all aspects of learning to swim and basic swimming strokes.

Beginners

Do you have a fear of the water? Maybe you have a fear of swimming in the deep end of the pool?

Some basic exercises such as learning how to submerge your face in the water and learning how to stop and stand up mid swim, will boost your confidence and help you learn to swim.

These exercises plus more swimming tips are explained in our eBook 'Simple Swimming' and are very easy to understand and follow. Click here to learn more about it.

Front Crawl

Do you get out of breath after 1 or 2 lengths of front crawl?

Simply making your strokes longer and changing your breathing pattern can change all that. Are you using explosive or trickle breathing?

Trickle breathing (exhaling whilst swimming) can make swimming front crawl much easier.

Our best-selling eBook 'The Complete Guide to Swimming Front Crawl' contains over 20 separate exercises with the best swimming tips that are designed to fine-tune all parts of front crawl technique. Click here for more information.

Breaststroke

Do you get that sinking feeling when you swim breaststroke? Maybe your leg kick is not powerful enough to keep you moving. Maybe you are not gliding for long enough and you are using more energy that you need to.

Most people make the mistake of using the arms to pull the body though the water. Breaststroke leg kick provides the most of the power to move and not the arms.

Our eBook 'The Complete Guide to Swimming Breaststroke' contains all the exercises and swimming tips you need to perfect your technique and make your swimming effortless and smooth. Click here for more information.

You can also download eBooks containing detailed technical information and simple swimming exercises to help develop and fine-tune backstroke and butterfly swimming stroke.

Do you have a problem with your basic swimming strokes? Are you new to swimming and have a fear of water that is preventing you from learning to swim? Then Ask Us! It is a FREE service that requires no subscription and your email address and personal details will not be placed on a mailing list or passed on to any third party. Click here to Ask Us for some simple swimming tips!

Listed below are the most frequently asked questions. Click on one to see the full question and our swimming tips and advice.

I desperately want to learn how to swim, but I get very scared when I don`t touch the bottom of the pool.

How I can swim smoothly?

What are the swimming basics to be followed for mid-aged beginners?

Why do I sink any time I try to swim?

I need help with swimming breaststroke. My daughter tends to 'sink' & ends up almost standing as she tries to swim across

I want to learn freestyle swimming for exercise, but I don't know how to do freestyle breathing technique. What is the best way to practice breathing?

I'm in my fifties, reasonably fit, and my favoured style is freestyle, my main problem is keeping my face down in the water, and breathing to the side, I tend to end up gasping for air after a short time, any tips on breathing would be very much appreciated.

I need help with teaching swimming lessons. Could you recommend a dvd and book set that will help me teach correct stroke technique for all 4 swimming strokes. I assist in teaching primary school children at their weekly swimming lessons.

I need help with swimming breathing. The problem is getting my head out of the water to get a breath when I need it.

I need some swimming tips as it's difficult for me to take a breath. How can i swim with my head always over water?

I want to get into triathlons after watching the ironman hawaii i was inspired. The thing is i have no experiance in swimming should i join my high school swim team? Im willing to do anything whatever it takes.

Please advise as to which swimming stroke would be back friendly, as I have had back surgery?

How should I enter a pool where the water is sometimes chilly and sometimes warm?

How do I float? I want to know how to stay (remain) on the water. Do you have any tips?

I can only swim with the help of a swimming noodle or facing up, if I try to swim on my own facing down my body start sinking. Could you give me some tips?

I need help teaching swimming lessons. I have a pupil with really good breast stroke legs but try as i might i cannot get him to flutter kick for front crawl, he is better with a float and i dont have small enough fins what other practices could i do for him as it is quite a challenge now to correct the kick.

I am 35 years old lady learning to swim for the first time.I have been to two lessons and feel like giving up..as whenever I try to float I sink..my trainer is trying to teach front crawl..but I am not able to lift my legs and float..the moment I try to flap my legs I sink..feel embarassed..thinking of putting a stop..but I really want to swim..can you help?

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