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The most awesome swim instructor on the planet!! Great Kaitlin!! Nice to see you and another great video. Thank you very much and I hope your training remains awesome!!☺💥

❤very nice ....is it safe for kids to use props like fins n palm bands?

Wonderful video as always! 💪💪👍. Such good coaching info. I know it may not be the focus for your channel, but as an age group triathlete I need some different skiils - distances are long, it's mass start open water being hit and kicked, need to sight every few strokes, need minimal kick to save the legs for the ride and run, etc. It's hard to find good information on translating pool skills to triathlon or posibbly different drills to do/ try. I am in Canada which means the majority of my pre season swimming has to be indoors. Maybe a future video could give desperately needed tips for us hungry for guidance triathletes 😊 thanks as always for the great videos!!

Great channel Kaitlin I followed your instructions to get a better pace and it worked hopefully I’ll get better for next year today I swam 1900mts in 46 mins

Nice work, Coach!!! Lots of good stuff in here, and I appreciate it! Later gator vs

Właśnie mam problemy z oddychaniem. Po kilkuset metrach tracę powoli ciąg wody a przez to załamuje się poprawna technika. Mam wrażenie że przyczyna tkwi w oddychaniu. A poza tym ładna dziewczyna i mądrze mówi. I dlatego przyjemnie się słucha.

Excellent great Kaitlin!! Awesome to see you again and as always exceptional video!! For me, I am a sprinting guy in everything!! I love explosiveness, fast twitch, and recently found a way to get back to sprinting on the tread mill with my bone on bone left knee....I grab the top and behind the treadmill, lean over and hold (taking vertical pressure off the knees or lots anyway) and do my 30 sec fast, 30 sec slow.....Love it! And in the pool, I love fly n crawl sprints!! I love to play close to the sun!!

This was an awesome video. Love the comparisons and examples.

2:57 - I need to follow these principles and follow this plan 3:26

Can't say I learned anything, but several comments. One, by rotation, I have always thought that hip rotation was slightly less than shoulder rotation. True or not? One of the most interesting comparisons of freestyle mechanics is Ariarne Titmus and Katie Ledecky. Ariarne swims on a breathing pattern of 2, 2, and then 3 or 4, and repeat. Katie swims gallop style. I would love to take one of those O2 meters that tell blood level saturation points and put one on their fingers when they are done with a race. I would be willing to bet that Katie has a higher O2 level. Once you get into oxygen debt, you can not recover. I also like how Katie swims with no kicks for part of the 1500, then 1 kick, then 2 kicks, then 4 kicks, and finally 6 beat kick to finish. I always watch the Olympics. For the first time ever, I noticed one male swimmer who was breathing every 4th arm pull on the 100. Pretty much all the rest of them were gallop style. I would like to put an O2 sensor on his finger too after a race.

Such good tips!

Another great video!!

Just catching up on what I missed over the holidays - brilliant content as always. I'm an age group triathlete and swimming is my weakest discipline - I took swim lessons in my youth but never competed in swimming until I took up triathlon - so I have lots to improve. I've watched many other swim videos online, but your content really covers things well and I am learning so much from your videos and I am a big fan! Really appreciating your channel and am promoting it to my fellow triathletes.

Im training for my First ironman 70.3 in march 2nd. I Can swim without much effort the requiered Distance but Can’t add Speed my pace right now is 2.29/100m and been struggling to improve without success

Thanks for this great video. Should the yardage remain the same and effort should be made to just sprint faster or should number of sprint sets also be increased to improve speed?

Wow, I’m so glad KZbin pop up this video. First time I watch one of your videos and by far one of the easiest videos to follow and understand. Great work with the demonstration. I will definitely check your channel. Happy new year!

Ja pływam krótkie dystanse z dużą intensywnością. 😅

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Always exceptional.....always A++++, always very detailed......Always professional.... Great work great Kaitlin and thank you!!

I always feel like I'm going nowhere when I overkick drill. Also, I can only handle the restricted breathing above 3 breaths if I pull the set. I swim 3x/week totaling 12,000 yards so I don't think swimming more is going to help me. Thanks for your video. It has great content and presentation.

Appreciate the overview.

Nice work, Coach!!! Great video. Later gator vs

I just cant swim anymore after my Surgery i am only a 10m swimmer left , start panting exactly after i reach 10.01m 😢. Not sure what to do here. I tried to race freestyle with a teenager, hes been beating me consistently for a week now 😢

As far as the breathing goes, I tried for years to breathe on every 3rd arm stroke with freestyle. I was never able to get beyond 100 yards without gasping for air. I now swim the gallop style. It was made for me. My guess is that I just burn more O2 than most others. With back stroke, I breathe with every arm pull. I have tried slowing stroke rate down and up, and the results are the same, have to breathe on every arm pull....

Beautiful Kaitlin. Thank you for interesting training 🔥

I do like to vary the amplitude of my kicks during my kicking laps. High/big amplitude to maintain power through the whole kicking motion, medium for race type situations or what you do when you race, and small for developing leg speed. Do look at the Finis Positive Drive Fins, PDFs. The only ergonomically correct fins that are out there. We do not have flat feet like frogs. Ours are very 3D.

Profoundly stated Kaitlin! Thank you! Finding the sweet spot without "pressure from the sport" is so very important. And why? Because the journey of training to hit the 15 meter mark will make it all worth the time and effort put in to get there.

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Oh... and Merry Christmas, Coach!!! vs

Nice work, Coach!!! Oh man... this is so timely... last week (a very tough week for me in the pool), I began working HARD on underwaters for my 50 Free and 50 Back (I'm swimming my 1st Meet in 45 years on 1/25/25)... so I was really working these and my turns (thanks to you). Yesterday afternoon, my hamstrings were killing me??? WTF? I have been at it for a year, but only recently added flips to my workouts... but now... ouch... But this is great stuff... I love focusing on my underwater swimming, because it is so much faster... and I know this based on my works. I can be in a lane next to slightly faster swimmer, but I'll always catch them on the turns with my underwaters. This is a great video. Thanks, Coach!!! Later gator vs

Too good! 👍

Excellent content and instruction great Kaitlin!! Always exceptional and nice flow to the teaching. I was doing these today and they get better every time. I try and visualize a fixed amplitude for the kicks, not too hi or low, and whippy for the undulation. Its coming... Thanks great lady, I hope you remain well and Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!

Don’t understand rhythm 1-2-kick-kick if in reality it is kick-kick-kick-kick

Well, a couple of points that apply to me, but maybe not to every one. I have very stiff ankles. If I try to kick with relaxed ankles, my ankle is flexed to maybe 30 degrees. I have to make an effort to point my toes. I have not been able to sit on my heels for eons. For fins, I remain puzzled by the traditional "frog feet" or maybe Duck feet for me since I am an Oregon Duck.... The propulsion in kicking comes from going slightly pigeon toed, and then the side of the foot generates push, not a pointed toe. Especially for stiff ankled people like me, going pigeon toed gives me 20 or so degrees of extra toe point. The only fins I have seen that are "ergonomically" correct are the positive drive fins from Finis, aka PDFs. Lots of fin on the little toe side, very little fin on the big toe side. This turns your toes in and rolls your ankles. I tried for years to use a gymnastic toe point. Once I learned to go pigeon toed, it cut my kick time in half. I will subscribe for a bit, just curious. My favorite stroke is the over arm side stroke. Only record was set in 1895, time of 1:02.5 for 100 yards. Side stroke was dropped for the much slower breast stroke prior to the 1900 Olympics because it was more "gentlemanly" because there was less splashing.

I am so old, 74, they wouldn't teach us flip turns as a kid because "they are too difficult for you kids". Now they teach them about the time you can make a length of the pool. We differ on a couple of things. I NEVER depend on the T on the bottom of the pool. In watching the Olympics, ALL of the swimmers spot the X on the wall, and not the T on the bottom. This involves raising the head a bit, but it is important to not to raise the head too far because as you said, your hips can drop. This is also an essential tumbling concept for flips and forward rolls. By raising the head a bit, when you tuck your chin, that adds to the rotation. There used to be an old school teaching that using the arms was "wasted motion". Pretty much every one now teaches to do a bicep/shoulder curl, and I keep my arms more at about the same bend you are using when swimming. I try to not pull past streamline position, but when I am tired, I do tend to pull past that point, not quite touching my shoulders. The abs, along with the dolphin kick help you fold up. Your lower back muscles help you unfold/get your body straightened out again.

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Nice work, Coach!!! This is a great video for beginners, but also contains good, useful information for experienced types. Love it! Later gator vs

Such a good free guide! So helpful

This training program is awesome! I never knew how important breathing was in swimming. I learned so much in 10 minutes.

Please do more blogs i love them

This is terrific information for swimmers of any level. Maybe the best and most concise on the internet. Thank you.

I love Kaitlin's content. Her technical instruction is awesome and easy to follow. Her personality, attitude, enthusiasm, are all so positive and just glowing. She's a nice lady and great teacher. Thank you great Kaitlin!! You are appreciated.😊

Love it! As a beginner swimmer, this was super easy to follow.

Great Kaitlin!! Just checking in. Had 2 great weekend sessions and 2 great land sessions!! Rest day Wed. Hope your training is going great and most importantly, that you remain well. Happy holidays and thanks again for all of your great content and advice!!

Such good tips!! Love the drills

Such good tips to create a training plan!

0:15 - I want to try this drill on my non dominant side.

Kind Kaitlin!! You're so nice. God put you on earth to teach and make people feel happy! Thank you. Body felt amazing after the break!!! My left lat healed.... Just came off a 5 day training cycle so rest day today. Back n bi's n core, abs, cardio, stretch tomorrow.... Feeling great!! Hope your workouts are going great!!

Great Kaitlin!! My wise and kind friend. You keep reading my mind. Thanks very much!! Excellent content!! You are a swim angel. Thank you and have a beautiful week....