In this blog I’m going to give you 18 reasons why you should learn to swim front crawl. If you can swim breast stroke for miles but struggle with a few lengths of front crawl you might be wondering why you should bother learning. Breast stroke can feel like a nice sociable stroke. You can swim with your head up, chat to your friends and it feels nice and relaxed. So here are 18 reasons to inspire you to learn to swim front crawl.
Should I swim in a wetsuit or just my cossie? Are wetsuits cheating? Is it dangerous? Or is it nicer without? There’s lots of different opinions and the discussion can get quite polarised. I swim both with and without a wetsuit all year round depending on what I’m doing and there are benefits of both.
If you’ve been part of the boom in wild swimming over the last year or so and have a discovered a love of the outdoors why on earth would you go and swim indoors? In that sweaty, chlorinated, indoor pool that feels confining and is full of lane politics that you can’t understand? If you want to get better at swimming and be able to swim further, faster or feel better in the water then you will definitely benefit from doing some sessions both indoors AND outdoors.
Did you know that humans aren’t very efficient moving in water! When we compare 100m world records for running and swimming its much clearer how much energy we lose in swimming.
Here are 5 common mistakes I see people make in their swim practice on a regular basis.