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Swimming Help For Level 4 - Advanced

The "Level 4 - Advanced" is the final level of swimming advice on this blog. It focuses on tiny details to help you swim even faster than before. You should be an experienced swimmer or a triathlete who is looking to get an edge over the competition. If you made it this far, I salute you. However, there is always room for improvement, so keep on learning new tips and tricks on how to make swimming more fun.
Sprint Breaststroke Workout (How To Improve Your Breaststroke Kick) - Swimming Advice

Many of you have asked me to give some breaststroke workout advice in your comments, so here it is. Below you will find a few tips for your breaststroke 50s and 100s and I am sure it could come handy for longer events as well. First, keep in mind that breaststroke is a combination of leg power...

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How To Learn A Freestyle Flip Turn - Part 3 (Advanced) - Swimming Advice

Here are a few special tips and tricks if you are already a flip turn professional :) and you have mastered both phase 1 and phase 2 of the flip turn school. 1) Let's focus on the glide into the turn first: When you start your glide, you should be slowly submerging yourself underwater, so...

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Breaststroke Pullout 101 (How Champions Do The Breaststroke Pullout) - Swimming Advice

It is well known that the fastest breaststrokers have one of the longest and fastest breaststroke pullouts. If you are not sure what I mean by a pullout, it is basically what happens underwater after the start or the turn, right before the swimmer starts swimming normally. Now, why is that? ...

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How To Improve Your Kicking? (Fun Kicking Drills) - Swimming Advice

In this post, I will discuss a few tips and tricks on how to improve your kick or how to make kicking more fun. Why would I bother you may ask? Well, having both effective and efficient kick is a must-have if you are serious about improving your swimming speed. In fact, without a good kick,...

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Learn To Control Your Breathing (Swim Sets To Improve Your Lung Capacity In Swimming) - Swimming Advice

It is no secret that a swimmer has one of the best lung capacities from all the athletes or at least should have. :) . Having to be accustomed to not be able to breathe whenever you want takes some time getting used to. Here are a few fun ways how you can improve your breath holding ability du...

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New Breaststroke Rule Adopted by FINA - Swimming Advice

Some of you already might have heard that FINA has updated their breaststroke rule to accommodate an underwater dolphin kick during the pullout phase after the initial start or a turn. The rule marked as SW 7.4 clearly states "A single downward dolphin kick followed by a breaststroke kick is perm...

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