This site is devoted to swimming. Why is it called Twenty-Three Seconds? Because my goal is to swim 50 meters within twenty-three seconds. Follow along as I analyze my crawl stroke to death and maybe you'll learn a few things to improve your own time.
I don’t remember where I read it, but it is sometimes recommend that if you want to be a sprinter, then just practice sprinting. I don’t really enjoy swimming long distance. At least right now where I feel that my technique is poor. I prefer to swim hard, stop, analyze what worked and then go [...]
I have been swimming for about 5 months now and feel like I have made some progress. I don’t remember how fast I could swim 50 meters when I first started training, but I believe it was around 50 seconds. I can swim 50 meters in right under 40 seconds now and I am making [...]
Look at the position of Ian Thorpe’s head. I know a person’s head isn’t exactly a block in the water, but it seems to me that keeping your head parallel to your arms would be a lot more aerodynamic than holding your head up and looking forward. Any ideas?