3 Swim Drills To Improve Your Front Crawl Technique | Swim Faster Freestyle In your Next Triathlon

[@gtn]

What is your favourite front crawl swim drill? Let us know in the comments below 👇

[@parttroll1]

I like the 6-3-6 drill to get me in the groove for timing the stroke and work on the breathing in the pocket

[@markankone9362]

What about a hand paddles ?

[@markankone9362]

For the pro's an elastic band on the your feets to keep them together, and you can't use them. It is hard but, you are forced to make a full stroke to the end.

[@williamward2472]

Unco Drill, Broken Arrow, Javelin ...

[@1houndgal]

I like to modify the 3-6-3 to work on my dolphin kicks in streamline position.

[@MarcosSoni]

Thank you Heather and Mark. Appreciate the new drills to help me on my journey to become a better swimmer.

[@notmyrealname6272]

The doggy paddle! Been trying to overcome a mental block about getting my arms out of the water for so long (whole life since being just left at the shallow end at school) and because of that only swimming breast stroke. Last night I swam four lengths of crawl for the first time having never done even one stroke before. :-D The key was the doggy paddle then as you say, with rotation-and suddenly my arms were coming out and I was swimming crawl. Nearly cried with happiness. After years of breast stroke it just felt weird using my arms independently but the doggy paddle got me over that. Thanks so much for all your videos. Love them all-always helpful, never patronising. ❤️

[@almacristina1615]

I'm starting a swimming class, thanks for the tips have been helping a lot , I'm learning 😃😃😃😃😃

[@thubtenmunsel8873]

Love all your videos-I’m learning to open water swim as a new swimmer-I find your drills particularly helpful. Thank you.

[@timferguson2682]

Hooray Heather & Mark! Your videos on swimming technique have been a great help since I first started watching them a couple of months ago. I did convert 30 cm (the width of the scull) to imperial. Here in USA we'd call it a foot (30 1/2 cm).

[@AZHOLEN1]

I’m on a swimming stroke improvement video marathon, I feel like an Olympic champion already!🤣

[@cadlac1533]

Appreciate your time very much . Big Ta from 10,000 Lakes. 💗 💗

[@BlossDraws1]

this is really helpful for me when i do my swimming on saturday i do front crawl and i rarely kick my my legs and i need to improve on my arms.

[@bennymud]

great tips. i'm gonna try these out in training.

[@niallrichardcurran2466]

Love your content,... always feels like the Blue Peter of Triathlon sports...

[@tabithahamby4693]

Is there a video that breaks down lap structure lingo? Like "drill" vs "swim", so forth? Thank you!!

[@MattDion]

Love me some sculls! 3-6 is good too, but I typically need small fins. Doggy paddle is my nemesis. But at least it’s better than my frog leg kick, where I quite literally move backwards. 🤔

[@cyounesful]

Great, thank you so much!

[@hoyaistypoon]

Great~~~! I’d like to improve my swimming skill TT thanks a lot~ 😍❤️👍👍

[@henridanielski9318]

Nice colour of the fins.

[@mcjcg1372]

Thank you for the video I learned a lot im in my 30s and i know how to swim but I'm still learning how I fill slow and like I'm fighting the water I hope you all don't mind I have been adding your videos on swimming and running to a playlist called tri tri again if you know any other videos that would be helpful please let me know

[@gtn]

We're glad you're finding the swim and run videos useful - feel free to keep adding them to your playlist!

[@1houndgal]

I too have been adding videos into playlist categories. I find it helpful to keep a library of swim videos for resources.

[@alanmorris3636]

Great video....thank you :)

[@gtn]

Thank you! Which drill do you prefer?

[@romt7945]

How do you mean "pitching the hands ever so slightly"? Please and thanks.

[@yannicfabi3662]

Great video, great content 👍 Would be very interesting to hear a bit about your improvals since u started swimming. How often are u training/week and which kind of drills/ distances are u training etc :)? I am currently stuck at a pace of 1:45/ 100 m up to a 1.5 km swim - do u have any tips on how to consistently improve ?

[@gtn]

Hi Yannic. Both Heather and Mark have been swimming for a looooong time and have both been professional athletes in the past. Keep working on your technique and make sure you are regularly getting in the pool and completing a range of structured workouts. We have lots of videos on this so get watching and make sure to comment if you have any other questions.

[@stug45]

Heather, I can't help but thinking you're losing the catch..... There are two schools of thought but the straighter arm with a high elbow is the swim smooth/British triathlon method....I come from a swimming background and this was discussed in my coaching course. In my swimming I have been concerned about shoulder rotation and doing an s style.... having now changed my stroke to hip rotation and a straighter arm pull (less loss of the water) I have not lost any speed but I feel more efficient and less muscle strength seems to be needed. It's much easier to teach the catch and pull in a straight line.... however don't be tempted to change a fast swimmer who does the S shape because they may lose speed! People who copy the S stroke when they haven't mastered the catch may finding themselves losing that force on their hands way before getting to their hips. Get them them think about pulling a rope. Doggy paddle drill helps with this.

[@heatherfell_oly]

Hi Stug45, Thank you for your comment. We have done a video on the catch as well if you're interested.

[@thesaltysquirrel3425]

Great content, 👍

[@gtn]

You're very welcome!

[@ruth0929]

Do I use the buoy for the 3 swim 6 kick?

[@baseball360pro1]

What goggles are you guys using? I want to start taking on the swimming portion more in Triathalon and want a good pair of goggles thought the ones you all had on looked nice. Thanks for the video by the way. Very helpful.

[@novasentia2307]

Me personally, i find the Arena Tracks the best training goggles and the Speedo Fastskin elite mirrored for competitions. (this is based on pool swimming only. not sure about open water).

[@86virtu]

It seems really hard to count it all down, so counting few seconds is a good idea. In this regards it will be really useful if you had a non-slo-mo video of each drill. This way we can get better idea of the rhythm.

[@gtn]

Sorry that you weren't able to get a good idea of rhythm, we thought more slow-mo footage would be useful and help you work out what is going on. We'll look to include more 'normal speed' footage in videos going forward.

[@86virtu]

Do not get me wrong - I like the content of the video, it is really useful. I'm just pointing out an area where you can improve. Thank you for your answer! ;)

[@1houndgal]

@@gtn pls do both slow-mo and in real time.

[@andrecanhoto8023]

I Love it

[@nootnoot1463]

Heather does an S shaped pull back, but Marks pull is straighter. Do you think straight or S-shaped is better?

[@heatherfell_oly]

Noot Noot, very observant. The S shape is far more old school and the jury is out, maybe a video for the future.

[@stug45]

See my comments above

[@1houndgal]

What is the point of the S in a stroke anyways? I swim faster not doing an S myself. I work on my rotations and x beat kicks per side rotation.

[@majormusicmaniac1]

1. Skull 2. Doggie paddle 3. 3 swim 6 kick

[@darrenhine1682]

I do those three drills every time I swim it is part of my warm for the pass 12 months, but are frustrated that I am not making much or any improvement in my pace.

[@gtn]

Keep working on it and it will come. a combination of technique and fitness is the key to improving your swim speed.

[@helenlamb2432]

Very complicated!

[@esm7556]

My legs it's getting tired in 20 meters, what should I do about it?

[@drudaypote]

Which wrist watch you guys use for triathlon.

[@gtn]

Hey, we use the Polar Vantage 🙂

[@hydra66]

don't forget to breathe

[@gtn]

Yep, that one is pretty important

[@Julieb210]

If I'm only doing 25 m Spring I breath 1 time and do 13 14 secs

[@PapaPineapples]

What is the average pace for everyone?

[@timferguson2682]

Individual laps of 50 yards (45.7 meters) maximum so far is 50 seconds. 54.9 meters/minute or 60 yards/minute. How about you?

[@PapaPineapples]

Tim Ferguson if you threw a rock in the water and let it sink you can see my speed lol

[@79devo]

2min/100m

[@dharmveerm3061]

Good

[@jasonstack122]

I'm 62 years old and do sprints of 100 yards for 1 hour! I can do an underwater dolphin kick 1 lane with 1 breath and Kickin only one breath 1 lane I find after swimming 45 years the sprinting is more fun and more muscle!

[@cabot100]

So now that you are starting to get the hang of it, instead of it do sets of five-hundreds and vary the speed for each one hundred mix it up between all out as fast as you can go, about eight percent of your max and about fifty percent of your max, this will improve your endurance, strengthm power and cardiovascular ability. Once you get comfortable and stronger at that then you can do some of the five hundreds by changing the pace every fifty. Doing sets of one hundres all the time is for age groupers, not for someone who has been swimming for forty five years..

[@عالمجزاءسطين]

Ur t shirt r wonderful9

[@79devo]

I need a coach …..

[@fionnbrennan8444]

Mark seems to be really low in the water most of the time

[@ocauto22]

He doesn't have any day on him to float, just bone and skin

[@indiaranning1907]

I'm Indian

[@kartalbaba981]

👍🌹❤

[@belzeubub]

What is her name?

[@Catharsis791]

Heather, aka Misses Speedie

[@waleedalgharabally9385]

Choice of speech Choice the final maker FAIL It makes us who even love water Do Not Need to continue ! Try again with different speech Different video maker Actually, even different skinny speaker . Someone with Ana bit of swimmer body. That’s all

[@OperaLars]

Very instructing, but I was distracted watching the doggy paddle drill :-P