Having trouble improving your personal best when it comes to freestyle swimming?

There are plenty of conventional ways to hit a faster record from training diligently and consistently, to building up more stamina and muscles to enhancing the flexibility of your body. Little do you know, perhaps you don’t have to look too far or overthink the situation. 

Instead, look at yourself in the mirror. It could be as simple as improving your posture. Yes, really. The most fundamental way to brush up on your swim is as basic as your posture. Bad posture connects to bigger water flow resistance, and the need for more energy put in in order to swim. To achieve a faster or improved PB, lower water resistance and more propulsion are needed. So what do you do?

Before you take a swim, have an internal body scan and ask yourself, do you have the Swimmer’s Slouch? When it comes to swimming, that slightly hunched-over posture is not exactly the coolest. Most of us already spend most of the day hunched over at a computer, driving, using our mobile phones and even feeling lazy which is perfectly normal. … Although that means you might be slouching before you even get to a swim practice, yikes!

Good swimming posture is exactly the same as having good walking, standing and sitting posture. Some tips on making sure you keep your posture in check:

• Roll your shoulders up and back every few hours.
• Doing rows on a rowing machine at the gym can help maintain a balance in upper body muscles.
• Integrative strengthening helps in building up your core and hip reflexes (it’s all connected to your posture, how amazing is our body?)
• Any posture drills which can help get your shoulders back.

Our new swimming goggle “IGNITION” also helps to solve this too. For normal swimming goggles, most swimmers end up having to raise their heads to see the forward side and as a result, their posture is affected. With SWANS’ IGNITION, its distinct inclined lens enables you to keep 0 degrees of your head position even when you are looking forward. And yes, you guessed it, your posture is not compensated.