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    Freestyle Swim Lesson 'The Season Day 4' Helpful tips on how to swim #swimlesson #frontcrawl

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    Today’s episode syncs the streamline with the flutter kick and then ventures into basic freestyle (front crawl). These skills are …

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    4. Ayana J on

      Coach, how about this one: What do you call a cow with no legs?……………………………………………………………ground beef!! 😀 😀

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    5. Marlo on

      Hi Aaron! I love your videos! I have a question regarding front crawl. I'm a lap swimmer and I find that when I'm getting a quick of breath of air, I get water in my mouth usually on my left side only (my non-dominant side). Any suggestions on that? Thank you!!!

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    8. Jake Ortega on

      Thanks coach sorry for bombing you with question after question. It's just that swimming is such a complicated sport and there are so many aspects of it that needs clarification. You know most coaches recommend breathing every 3 strokes while swimming, however I somehow prefer breathing every 4 strokes when swimming long distances. I looked around in the pool and I don't see a lot of people breathing every 4 strokes.  I'm not sure if breathing every 4 strokes will have any negative effects as far as my stroke or will it cause any health concerns? Thanks again coach for your time and opinion?

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    9. Jake Ortega on

      Hi coach Aaron thanks for the response from the previous video. I just need advice on one more thing hope you don't mind. I know it is a personal preference but which time of day do you think is best for training swimming? I have a full time job so I can only train early in the morning or after 7 pm in the evening. Which time do you believe is best for increasing my swimming performance? Thanks again!

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    11. Karan on

      I just joined a swim team and I noticed that just doing 25 makes me very very tired and I become super slow after I do a flip turn, I was wondering if you had any tips on this. Thank you

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    12. Welly Eka Charisma on

      Hi Aaron, i taught that I do swim freestyle corectly. But somehow it's slow. How can I increase my speed? Is it person with "fat" body is slower then people with "slim" body? Should I do gym training to increase the power of my hand and feet? Thanks coach 😀

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    13. Thomas Nolen on

      Hi coach. I'm a distance freestyle swimmer. I'm currently not on the high school swim team but hope to swim for college in the future. I have always had this issue with my shoulders because they always feel irritated after I swim. I usually just ignore it and continue training because it doesn't cause any problems, however sometimes I have to stop swimming for at least a few days just to give them a break(the pain is worse than normal). I have heard of swimmer's shoulders and I think I might be one of the unfortunate ones that suffer from it. Is there anything that I can do to get rid of it? Thanks Coach!

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    14. Gaurav Tiwari on

      Hey Aaron your videos are super super helpful man….
      The biggest problem that I am facing is the breathing and maintaining the position of head appropriate and I have already checked your video for both but I am not able to do it in pool…
      please help me with some technique so that I can pose my neck rightly

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    15. Jerry Shen on

      Hi after watching this instruction, I finally figured out my stroke flaw. I wasn't extending my arm all the way forward, and my stroke used to be short and choppy(which might have been the cause of my shoulder issue). I will work on these techniques next time I swim!

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    18. JStephs1950 on

      I'm 64 years old, have swum all my life (but never competitively) and I had rotator-cuff surgery in Feb. 2014. After 4 months of PT, I began my summer swimming sessions 3-4 times a week doing front crawl exclusively this year (I like to butterfly, but not with the recent shoulder injury).

      I have gradually increasing my distance over the summer until I recently reached my goal of an uninterrupted (with flip-turns) 5000 meters 3 times a week in our development's  25-meter Junior-Olympic pool. It takes me about 2.5 hours of uninterrupted swimming to do this, and I've been slowly pushing the time, so I hope I can cut 15 minutes off that by the time the pool closes on Sept. 30, provided the water doesn't get too cold before then.

      My metabolism gets quite high in the process – it takes quite a while for me to cool down afterwards – but my heart-rate is not highly elevated and I'm not at all winded when I finish.

      In my stroke, I try to get the longest reach I can, with my arms completely relaxed after each exits the water by my thigh, elbow high with fingers sometimes tracing a little shallow path in the water on the recovery, then flopping into the water ahead of me and extending forward. At that point, I left the arm rest very relaxed in the water, pointing ahead, fingers relaxed and somewhat separate.

      My resting arm stays that way as my body is propelled forward by the pulse from my other arm and my continuous kick. As the other arm exits the water and makes it's recovery, the resting arm stays pointed forward, not going into the power portion of its stroke until the recovering arm is close to entering the water.

      As the recovering arm in its relaxed state gets close to and then enters the water, the resting or "gliding" arm initiates it's power stage by slowly moving down deeper into the water, the fingers on the hand coming together to form a larger surface with which to push at the water, and then my hand and arm accelerate as they begin a true backwards thrust, pushing the water more and more forcefully towards my feet. Still, I try to keep my body as relaxed as possible during this process, maintaining not just floppy feet, but relaxed legs, back, abdomen, shoulders, head (looking always at the bottom of the pool), and arms – even on the power portion of arm movement, I try to keep it all relaxed. There is thus a glide portion of my swimming technique, during which both arms are almost completely relaxed (one pointing ahead, the other traveling over the water in recovery) and the only forward active propulsion is coming from my kick and the remnants of the power portion of the last arm-stroke.

      Yet, almost all of the videos I've seen about the forward crawl do not mention this glide portion, although I see it in the swimmers used to illustrate other aspects of this stroke. The glide is one of the "secrets" to my ability to swim 5000 meters without stopping and without getting winded – although I am dead tired by the time I get home. It seems strange to me that it's not really mentioned in the videos, even though I see it being practiced by the swimmers. Why is that?

      One other question: I do 3 kicks per complete single-arm rotation, or 6 while both L & R arms perform the stroke – is this 1/2 speed?

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