An Outline from Coach Michelle’s recent Facebook Live Video.

Water is an unfamiliar environment

• Our perceptions in water are often wrong
• Working hard does not necessarily mean going faster
• Doing more often means we go slower

Drag – Our #1 Enemy

• We tend to forget about it
• 3 types of drag
  • Pressure or form – the shape of the swimmer 50%
  • Friction – the surface characteristics 25%
  • Surface or wave – where the swimmer breaks the surface 25%
• Drag forces increase as speed increases

Reduce Drag…You Go Faster

• Stay hydrodynamic as much as possible…this is efficient swimming
• Keep extremities in “your tube”
• Do less w/ arms & legs…more w/ core

How to Evaluate Efficiency

• Count strokes
• Ex.  Swimmer went from 28 strokes to 24 strokes.  Got 04 sec faster.

For the full video head to the Performance High Facebook page.