I just signed up for a swim clinic for next Sunday at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary, NC! It’s 3 hours and I will learn how to swim efficiently.  The course says it will cover proper body position, proper breathing technique, the essentials, extension and underwater pull, and technique drills. I’ve never swum competitively so I never learned how to swim fast.  I’m really excited!

I’ve always heard that swimming is all about technique and not so much about strength and if you don’t learn to swim properly, it’s harder to fix your mistakes.  Well luckily, I’ve only been swimming twice this year so I’m a blank canvas ready to be filled with swimming expertise!  For example, one of my guy friends was convinced that you just had to practice to get better (but it doesn’t do any good to practice bad form) so he would swim for an hour everyday.  When we both did an indoor triathlon, he and I swam the same distance in 15 minutes only I had not swam since last fall.  Haha

I’ll also get a DVD about swim technique at the class to remind me of proper form. :D  I hope to improve a huuuuuuuuge amount.