You wonder if learning all the different swimming styles is important; Or if practicing your favorite style permanently is enough? Different swimming styles!
Whether you are an experienced swimmer with an extremely good breaststroke or freestyle, or a small new swimmer or competitive swimmer you will always wonder if you are able to swim butterfly or backstroke and what advantages it would have something like that.
The benefits of different swimming styles
It is a fact that apart from a very significant investment of time, there are only benefits for those who know all swimming styles very well.
- When you swim with different styles, you use more muscles, and your body gets a better and better workout
- The risk of injury is reduced because the body is not always stressed with the same movements and the muscular system is more balanced.
- Your fun increases because your workouts are more varied and less boring.
- The skills you acquire in one style can often be transferred to another swimming style. For example, the skills of hydrodynamics, rotation, breathing, hand pulling that you learn in freestyle are also necessary in backstroke. Or the undulating motion that the body learns about the butterfly, is also a unique advantage for the front.
- Knowing ALL swimming styles very well can also be a major advantage for any other sport you may pursue in the future such as triathlon. Obviously, if you know breaststroke well, you will swim faster and tire less during a race. Breaststroke can be useful when you need to orient yourself, as you have better visibility than when freestyle, which helps a lot in open sea races. And if you're good at backstroke, you can roll onto your back when you're tired and swim in that style for a while to rest your body.
Different swimming styles!
in conclusion
Perhaps it would be best to learn to swim in all four known styles, if there is no rush to specialize in any particular one which in theory and perhaps in practice is sometimes wrong. Knowing more styles will definitely work to your advantage.
Saltamanikas Nikolas
TEFAA graduate -Swimming specialty
Class A swimming coach
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