5 more reasons why you should rotate: 1. Injury prevention The most important reason for adult learnt swimmers is injury prevention. By rotating we put ourselves in a more favourable position to use the big back muscles when pulling instead of using the weaker shoulder muscles. This applies to both freestyle and backstroke. 2. Arm recovery A good body rotation will give you more space to execute a correct arm recovery. If we do not rotate the trunk and hips, the exiting arm cannot recover natura
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Most swimmers rotate their hips as much as their shoulders 🚫 Sounds logical but it’s a mistake. Freestyle is a shoulder-driven stroke. The shoulders lead the rotation. The hips follow but with less movement. The more stable your hips are, the stronger your catch will be. Too much hip rotation and you lose your platform your pulling arm is working off an unstable base, your body sinks, and your catch angle breaks. Here’s why this matters: ✅ Strong shoulders stable hips keep your body higher in t
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Your head should be attached to your spine. Act like it. ❌ The head movement mistake: → Turning head independently to breathe → Looking up/forward/around → Head moving on different axis than body → Breaks the streamline every stroke ⚠️ Your head weighs 10-12 pounds. Moving it wrong sinks you. ✅ The fix: → Head stays neutral (part of spine) → Body rotates, head goes along for the ride → Look straight down at bottom → Turn head ONLY as much as body turns 🎯 One stable spine = perfect body position
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Instead of a smooth, small rotation, you might be lifting your whole head out of the water — twisting your neck, throwing off your balance, and dragging your hips down. It might feel like you’re getting more air, but it actually makes your stroke less efficient and slows you down. ⸻ ✅ How to fix it: 🔹 Keep one goggle in the water when you breathe. This helps you stay low and maintain better body position. 🔹 Rotate from your core, not just your neck. Your whole body should roll slightly as you
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To learn body rotation we recommend you to isolate the movement with drills, and subsequently implement it into your freestyle. What follows are three of our favorite drills that isolate the body rotation to teach you how to rotate to both sides, which wi | SwimGym
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