Swimming Strokes.?

Question

Are there any swim strokes that help the Obliques?

I know swimming is the best all body excercise.

Answer 1

Really freestyle (front crawl) is good if you can do flip turns, if not your best bet is backstroke( back crawl:)) When you swim it make sure to try to force your stomach to the surface this will give them a good workout!! Hope that helped. I am on the swim team by the way.

Answer 2

Freestyle and backstroke work the obliques the most, but all strokes work the core.

Answer 3

While both of those answers are correct, maybe the best swimming exercise for obliques is a funky stroke called corkscrew.  Basically one arm does a freestyle stroke and the other does a backstroke while you move from your back to your front.  The crossing motion and change of direction really works out your obliques but it is not a competitive stroke by any means.

To really work your obliques do situps where you cross one side of your body over the other, or lay on your side and do a version of a sit up where your really isolate your oblique lifting your shoulder off the ground.

Answer 4

I would have to say butterfly or backstroke works the best.