How to improve your swimming stroke through drills

In this lesson, Kostas Patiniotis, an elite swimmer tells us about swimming. He compares it to an art form – just as an artist has to spend hours in the studio honing their craft, swimmers have to spend hours in the pool fine-tuning their technique and stroke. Swimming is a great exercise that helps to improve mobility, ease back pain and arthritis, and reduce high blood pressure and tension – all while managing to be low-impact and thus better for your joints than many alternatives. Swimmers who are able to shut out everything else to focus on swimming during competition and practice are the ones that do the best. Oftentimes, they win races though they take fewer strokes than competitive. The combination of breathing, kicking, rotation, and stroking are the keys to perfecting the art of swimming. To master these, Kostas walks us through several exercises. First, he shows a good breathing drill to work on maintaining a good stroke while breathing. Next, he shows us an exercise that focuses on the upper body and the rotation of the shoulders. Third, he shows us an armpit drill that ensures the swimmers elbows are high enough to get a good entry into the water. Thereafter, he shows us the flutterboard drill that focuses on the leg portion of the stroke. Pulling with paddles is the next drill. It helps build strength overall (and especially in the arms) and helps swimmers gain feeling for the water while concentrating on the entry of the hands.

Derek Duke Noble (www.bodynoble.com), the host and creator of Urban Fitness TV (www.urbanfitnesstv.com), is a world-renowned celebrity lifestyle and fitness guru.

As a personal lifestyle fitness guru and trainer, I have had the good fortune to work with some of Hollywood’s hottest celebrities (John McEnroe, Demi Moore, Maria Shriver, Tatum O’Neil, and Michael J. Fox) and most recently, I got the opportunity to serve as both host and executive producer of Urban Fitness TV on the Fit TV channel. After working with an extensive list of high performance athletes, high fashion models and actors who have little time to work out, but still have to look as if they live at the gym, I created the ‘focus touch’ visualization technique that can boost the effectiveness of any exercise. This technique is part of the Body Noble Method, which is a safe,...

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