In top-level swimming competitions, victory or defeat often depends on the details. Even for amateurs, attention to detail can make a qualitative leap in your swimming speed. In this article, we'll take a look at three often-overlooked swimming details to help you improve your swimming skills!
1.Easy arm transfer, long-distance swimming is more effortless
Whether it's butterfly, backstroke, or freestyle, arm-moving movements are often overlooked. However, in freestyle, if you want to swim long distances with ease, make sure you let your arms relax when you move them.
Many swimmers are accustomed to using their full strength when moving their arms, but this practice may be effective in sprint races, but long swims can cause stiff and sore arm muscles.
In order to relax the arms, especially the forearms and hands, the more relaxed the more effortless.
Because there is no propulsion generated during the arm transfer, the force should be used for more helpful underwater strokes. This way, you'll save half your strength and swim further!
To master this technique, try the Arm Shift exercise.
2.The palm of the hand is slightly open, and the paddling efficiency is greatly improved
When you look at a swimming competition, you'll notice that the paddling movements of elite athletes are not palms completely together. In fact, a slight opening of the palm of the hand can increase the resistance area to the water and improve the effectiveness of paddling.
Professional organizations have conducted research on the degree of finger separation, and found that the stroke efficiency is highest when the fingers are about 10 degrees apart!
Some people may ask, when the palms are separated, the water does not leak out? In fact, slightly parting the fingers can increase the surface area of the hand, which can improve the efficiency of strokes. While it is true that a small amount of water is lost through the fingers, the contribution of this detail to the overall stroke effect cannot be ignored.
3.The soles of the feet are buckled, and the ability to hit the legs is better
In freestyle and butterfly, the reason for the emphasis on buckling the ball of the foot when hitting the leg is that it can increase the area against the water, which creates a more powerful propulsion.
In the case of the freestyle vertical leg, for example, the difference in the area of the instep against the water is very obvious. When the ball of the foot is buckled inward, the area of the instep to the water is significantly larger, and the propulsion force is naturally stronger. Therefore, in the process of leg beating, the big toe of both feet should be "close" to form an inner buckle of the soles of the feet, and the ability to beat the legs will be greatly improved!
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