How do you swim freestyle and what do u do to practice

Question

what are some drills or workouts u may use

Answer 1

I practice using some very basic techniques, actually.

One is just repeating and repeating. :) You'll get better eventually. :D

Another way I use is dividing the stroke up into two parts. One is the upper body and the other is the lower body. To train my upper body, I use a buoy and stick it between my legs. To train my lower body, I get a kick board (sort of a boogie board) and then just practice kicking with that. :)

Hope this helps! ^^

Answer 2

John, i see that you are very keen to learn how to swim from your previous questions. i will copy and paste my response to you to that you deifnaely have it

i used to be a swimmer so i hope i can be of some help :)

obviosuly you need to do the necessary stretches before getting in the pool... helps to lengthen out the muscles, make you more streamlined in the water. also helps you from pulling muscles.

frontcrawl:

use flippers on your feet

use paddels on your hands

swim using a pull boyd between your legs and using only your arms to practice pull (try not to let your hips twist around too much in this)

use a board so that yuo can practice kick

do breathing techniques e.g. breath everyone stroke for one length, every two strokes the next etc.

backstroke

flippers and paddels again (use seperately for max effect)

pull again

kick. (you can use a board but best to just interlock your hands above your head, by your sides is pretty useless as your head creates too much resistance against the water)

swim using only one arm instead of two

breatstoke

paddels

(dont try and use flippers for this one!)

kick with a board

pull (harder with breatstoke to keep your legs up. use a pull boyd to stop your from cheating!)

butterfly

paddels (hard!)

flippers

kick (dont use a board as you need to undulate through the water and use your hips to kick through)

swim but using single arms instead of two together

this next one is just a little fun exercise i picked up in training :)

swim to the end of the pool (deep end) in whichever stroke you choose. when you get to the end put your hands on the side as if to get out and push as if to get out. dont get out though!! make sure you dont lock your elbows but extend and then lower back down. do this in reps. (my friends used to use their hands to jump up, clap and then go back down but this could result in a nasty bump to the chin!) when youve finished reps, get out, go straight onto the blocks, dive in and sprint to the end, then repeat (v.hard!)

hope this has been of some use to you!

Answer 3

well its easy yhu just go to a swim pool and do laps lol