Swimming strokes

You feel it the moment you enter the water. Your heart pounds, your muscles contract, your lungs tighten up! Fortunately, that feeling doesn’t last for long. A few minutes later, you’ve moved beyond that initial shock (and temperature change) and float into a world where swimming freestyle is almost as comfortable as walking. Water is

Swimming: The Sidestroke

Check out my comprehensive guide to the 4 types of swimming strokes - freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly, and the unique techniques of each stroke.

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A swim workout is generally written in “sets” of yards or meters, and broken into sub-groups, to focus on different aspects of your fitness and swimming.

Let me introduce to you the classic swimming stroke of all times, the Breaststroke! Breaststroke is believed to be the oldest of all strokes but it still remains popular in both recreational swimming as well as competitive swimming. The health benefits of breaststroke definitely plays an important role to its survival in the swimming scene.

Are you interested in improving freestyle stroke? Are you a beginner? See my easy guide on the eight ways to improve your freestyle stroke

Swimming Techniques - Crawl Stroke #ValleyPoolsandSpas #Burnsville #MN #Swimming #Pools

The butterfly stroke is a very enjoyable but also quite difficult swimming stroke. We explain its technique here.

How to Swim the Front Crawl Stroke: 5 Freestyle Swimming Tips - 2022 - MasterClass

Great freestylers know that technique counts just as much as power and strength when swimming. Learn how to improve your freestyle stroke with these tips.

Oh, what did I hear you say? You think you can get away with sub-par breathing techniques if you’re doing the back float? Unfortunately, you can’t. Without proper breathing techniques, you wouldn’t even be able to float! Fret not, as I’m here to run you through 6 useful tips that can help with that.