How to Train most Effectively According to the Practical Part?

Are you impatient and want to learn to swim as fast as possible? I’ll show you the method that has proven to be the fastest for me.

You already know that you’ll bring printed Swimbooks with you to the pool. You also know that before the training session, you need to watch the videos with the specific exercises you’ll be practicing in the pool, and that these exercises are also shown with pictures and descriptions in the Swimbook.

For the training, you’ll need the following Swimbooks:

First, the Swimbook with the full chapter “Breathing in crawl” – priority number one.

Second, Swimbooks with individual levels – in other words, exercises of similar difficulty for all parts of the body. Always bring two levels with you, the ones you’re currently working on – we’ll talk more about that in a moment.

So first, look at the theory, then at the practical videos with the exercises you’ll be training. Then print out the Swimbook to remind yourself what the exercises should look like, take the printed version in clear euro folders to the pool, and start training.

What will the first training session look like?

In the first session, you’ll basically go through about 10 exercises.

• You’ll probably get the most breathing drills—maybe you’ll reach level 2, 4, 8—you’ll see how it goes. Include breathing exercises regularly at the beginning of each session, it’s your warm-up, the thing you start every swim practice with, even if you’re already at level 10.
• And then you’ll need all level 1 exercises, there are always five of them: breathing, which you’ll have already covered, and the remaining four chapters: floating, arms, legs, and body rotation.

And what about the second session?

In the second and every following session, you’ll go through about 14 exercises.

• As many breathing exercises as possible, see how many you can manage
• 4 level 1 exercises – that means repeating all 4 exercises from the previous session
• 4 level 2 exercises – so, new ones, slightly more advanced drills for floating, arms, legs, and body rotation

Does that make sense? In each session, we repeat the exercises from the previous level and add a new one.

And what will the third and every other training session look like?

Well, in the third session and onwards, you’ll repeat the previous content but always move up one level, provided everything goes according to plan and you don’t get stuck somewhere.

• As many breathing exercises as possible
• 4 level 2 exercises – these are the tougher ones from the last session, now it will just be a review.
• 4 level 3 exercises – these will be new drills for floating, arms, legs, and body rotation.

Of course, if you find any other approach that works better for you, that’s totally fine. What’s important is not to jump straight to the hardest version, because that can just demotivate you.
If you don’t understand something, no problem—just write to me and I’ll explain everything.