Swimming Tips #6- Gliding in freestyle and body rotation
What’s your best gliding period for swimming looser? For lifting your legs, protecting your lower back and swimming faster?
You’ve probably heard the importance of body rotation in swimming for your core and back muscles. It’s true. Body rotation is important. But what happens when you try to work on body rotation when you suffer back pain? The answer is obvious; your pain will get worse, unless you choose to swim WEST.
This means that first you will elongate your muscles, which will come in handy trying to stabilize your lower back, once they are long enough. Furthermore, longer muscles are less susceptible for injuries. That is why it is highly recommended you stretch your arm in the water, based on your optimal depth stretch we discussed earlier (Tip #1). At the end of each stretch, you should wait a bit to elongate your muscle as much as possible.
The optimal stretch time (from the moment your palm touches the water) is 2 seconds. Slow stretch allows optimal body rotation with no excess effort, on top of strengthening your core muscles, without hurting your lower back. So you can float better, swim faster, with minimum effort and strokes.
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