How to slide better in the water?

Achieving a greater slip in the swim, has an impact on greater efficiency and energy saving in swimming

Our collaborator Personal Running he tells us on this occasion some tips that may be useful in order to achieve a greater slip in your swim, and therefore, greater efficiency and energy savings.

Swim with the head too raised.

We should always start from the basis of achieving a position as hydrodynamic as possible, that is, flat and parallel to the surface of the water. A very common mistake is swim with your head too raised.

That makes the trunk and legs descend and therefore we offer greater resistance to the advance and slide less.

To avoid this, we should start swimming with the more sunken head moving it the only and indispensable thing to breathe, taking the look more in diagonal than frontal. This would automatically raise the hips and also the legs, offering less resistance to advance.

Work of the stabilizing muscles

An important part in this search for sliding is the dry work, in the work of the stabilizing muscles, on CORE, fitball, isometrics, postures, etc ..., since the more stabilized and controlled our position in the water, we will perform fewer movements outside the plane that interests us and therefore we would not slide.

In this link you will find a great variety of exercises that will be of great help to find you more stable in the water:

http://personalrunning.com/blog/posturales-o-en-isometria/

Work the Dead Point

Generally we swam too flat, that is, the rotational movement of the body in its longitudinal axis is not used to reach further with the stroke and apply more force in its underwater phases.

We do not use the body properly and try to betray only with the arms. It would be convenient to do a lot of work Deadpoint, insisting on the rotation of the body on its longitudinal axis or rolido to allow moving forward in a more rectilinear, helping the whole body to exert force so that you can reach further with the hand that slides forward and end up better with the may that accelerates back.

Here some interesting exercises:

Work efficient supports

The lack of efficient supports In the water it is one of the fundamental mistakes in swimming and one of the key factors that make sliding very difficult.

Perhaps more than an error is a lack, but it can be improved by working on the perception and awareness of the hand in the different supports.

If the hand does not support well, it descends and allows the elbow to fall, which breaks the correct position of the arm in its intention to take water and move it backwards. Therefore, the body sinks and does not slip.

It is important to know where we rely and how to get an effective swim, always trying to look for "dead" or "solid" water. For this the underwater paddling is a good method to practice it, here you have all in phases:

The exercises of contrasts with the changes of position of the hand are also important, here some like swimming with fists or with three fingers:

That's all folks. We hope that with these tips you will achieve a greater glide in your swim!