Tips To Develop Your Swimming

• Start and finish each session with a smile on your face.
• There are two important principles that apply to everyone in the world who swims in water.
  • Water is 80 times more dense than air, so being stronger in the water will not necessarily help. Being streamlined through the water is the single biggest improvement you can make. Streamlining is the holy grail of all swimmers, skiers, Formula 1 cars and America’s Cup yachts.
  • Swim faster than you normally do and take more rest! If you are doing more than 4-6 lengths without stopping, you are doing too much! Swim two or four lengths at a time, harder than usual, then rest.
• The reason people feel frustrated with swimming is because they don’t know how to improve. Swimming requires skill and that skill needs to be practiced.
• It appears odd, but swimming fewer lengths, with more rest, but at a slightly higher level, will have a far more beneficial impact on both technique and general fitness for the period of time you are in the water, than just swimming up and down non stop.
• Remember it’s nothing to do with how far you swim, but how well you swim