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What happens when you are swimming and your legs sink?
This increases resistance to forward movement, which reduces your speed and also results in higher energy expenditure. Consequently, you lose efficiency and risk stagnating, making it difficult to improve your performance.
The solution is not to increase your leg kick, but to adjust your body position in the water to achieve perfect alignment with the water surface.
If you maintain a posture as if it were a vertical line from head to feet, you will not only save energy but also prevent joint overload. In other words, it is about properly distributing your body weight, which requires strengthening the muscles of your core, including the abdominal, lumbar, pelvic, gluteal, and deep back muscles.
There are several exercises you can do, in addition to specific swimming workouts, to strengthen your core. These include front planks alternating with side planks, lying leg raises on the floor, using an ab wheel while lying down, etc. These are just a few of the main ones. If in doubt, consult a coach who can recommend the most suitable training plan for you.
To help with water training, BUDDYSWIM has developed a neoprene swimsuit that provides additional buoyancy during pool or open water sessions. It helps you achieve correct body position and hydrodynamics while allowing total freedom of leg movement in all swimming strokes.
It is an excellent tool suitable for any level of swimmer, usable in pools and open water, allowing you to focus on improving arm and leg technique, achieving better coordination, more precise execution, and stronger kicks, thereby increasing propulsion.
It is recommended to use the buoyancy swimsuit alternately during pool and open water sessions to avoid dependency. This helps you naturally adapt to correct hip rotation and leg lift in the water while maintaining proper horizontal alignment. With practice and time, you will create a neural pattern of how to feel in the water, which will be stored in your brain and allow you to execute optimal hydrodynamic posture naturally in your swimming.
The Buddyswim neoprene buoyancy swimsuit is made with exclusive 3mm Trilaminate Neoprene on the front and back, with two 5mm side panels for greater buoyancy and roll control. Thanks to its high-quality features, including vulcanized seams and flexible stretch in both directions, it is highly durable and suitable for swimmers of all levels.
You can find it in our catalog at www.buddyswim.com
. Try it and feel the difference.
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