How to Improve Your Freestyle Turns

How to Improve Your Freestyle Turns

Turns are a critical aspect of swimming.

Freestyle turns can be learnt simply and easily but as it is with all swimming skills, require regular dedicated and deliberate practice to master.

Turning Tips – Ways to Improve Your Freestyle Turns

1. Re-think your approach to turns and “turns practice.”

Make turns and the “turning zone”—your own personal domain—the one place in the pool where you are never beaten. And watch your personal record times tumble.

2. It’s not “turns practice” and “swimming practice”—they are not two separate and distinct things.

It’s all one training concept—“performance practice.” If you treat practice this way, you will ensure that every aspect of your training is performed with the same level of excellence that you are targeting for your next meet. In other words, train the way you want to race.

3. Look for every possible opportunity to improve your turns.

Warm-up…swim-down…fitness work…long-distance training. Find ways to include more and more race-quality turns in your training, and your “walls” will be wonderful.