By paying attention to hand position and wrist angle as you complete the underwater portion of your stroke, you'll be able to access more speed and power.

A How-To For A Purposeful Push-Offs In The Pool

This drill isolates your arms one at a time as well as an increased kick rate to maintain and support swim buoyancy. (Note may be done with or without a swim snorkel and or swim fins.)

Counting strokes per lap can is a good training tool for maximizing each stroke and fine tuning your tempo and turnover

Learn to Lead with the Elbow on the Freestyle Recovery

The Drill: To begin, stand upright on a flat surface, feet about 4-6 inches apart. Drop your arms by your side and mentally mark where your thumbs naturally line up with each thigh. Once swimming freestyle, you want to lightly drag your thumb across this spot during the underwater pull-through. This will insure that your arm is extending behind you (refer to swimmer in figure 2). Very simply, this drill taps into your muscle memory. You want to get used to pulling all the way through extending the arm behind you.

The Superman drill enhances the outstretched body position of the front crawl stroke. Pausing the stroke to mimic Superman encourages you to lengthen your body position whilst staying streamlined.

This Single Arm drill allows you to concentrate on stroke accuracy. By isolating one arm, it allows you to focus on improving technique.

This Single Arm drill allows you to concentrate on stroke accuracy. By isolating one arm, it allows you to focus on improving technique.