CreateFit Bristol Swimming Articles

Glide more, fight less — sounds easy, right? Yet for many swimmers, front crawl feels like a constant battle with the water, leaving you exhausted far sooner than expected. I'm going to talk you through how mastering the glide might be exactly what you need to jump this stubborn hurdle. Whether you’re trying to swim further for fitness or competition, improve your technique, or simply make your first few lengths feel less demanding, this can completely change how your swimmin

Learning to swim and the physical properties of water rarely cross over, and I think that’s a real shame. Water is truly an amazing substance that is the foundation of life as we know it, but more importantly, we can swim in it. The following ramble will shine a bit of light on the important features of water that can make your swimming journey much easier and maybe make a bit of sense out of the exercises and drills we get you to do here at CreateFit. We’ll cover three main

Generally speaking, when there is a keen desire to achieve a result, we tend to throw ourselves fully into making sure we’re successful. Often this ends up being in the guise of doing more. More work, more energy, more speed, more strength, more effort. Surely if the objective has yet to be reached, we must have to do more and work harder to get it?  Sometimes this might be the required approach; however, when it comes to swimming, it’s likely to hinder progress as opposed to

Anyone that has been on the receiving end of my front crawl swim coaching will no doubt be rolling their eyes after only reading the title of this article!  They will know how much I like to reinforce the reasons why it is essential to have fully extended arms on the reach while performing a good body rotation in order to swim with a strong, fluid, and effortless front crawl. But can everyone remember the reasons why this is encouraged? Unless regularly revisited, it’s likely