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When parents look for swim lessons for their children, they often look at the type of facility when deciding on the best pool environment for children swim lessons. many assume that learning in a large, traditional pool is the best—or only—way for children to become strong swimmers. When parents tour…
Once you’re comfortable in the water, the next step isn’t “jump into freestyle.” You need to move into a phase of stroke development for adult swimmers. It’s in this phase that you learn the body positions and timing that make freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly feel natural and sustainable. Moving…
What if you could swim faster, feel calmer in the water, and use less energy — in just three months? That’s exactly what many adults experience when they commit to a focused 3 months of stroke refinement lessons. Contrary to popular belief, improving your swimming isn’t about grinding out more…
Drills aren’t just for kids—they’re the fastest way for adults to break bad habits and transform their freestyle. To swim efficiently, you need balance, alignment, and effortless control in the water. At Chicago Blue Dolphins, we focus on three essential drills—our “Big 3 Freestyle Balance Drills”—that build the foundation for…
Many adults can swim but find it tiring, awkward, or frustrating. The secret isn’t more laps — it’s refining your stroke technique. Stroke improvement training breaks the stroke into manageable steps, helping adults move through the water with less effort and more enjoyment. Chicago Blue Dolphins provides the adult stroke…
Drills aren’t just for kids. In fact, adults often see the biggest breakthroughs when complex strokes are broken down into smaller pieces — balance, breathing, recovery — and then rebuilt into smooth, confident swimming. Why Drills Matter Swimming has too many moving parts to fix all at once. Trying to…
I was checking out my company’s Facebook page this morning and saw that my office manager had posted an article entitled “3 Reasons You Should Be Doing More Kick.” To preempt any comments such as “I’m a triathlete. I thought that I wasn’t supposed to kick.”, I thought I would put…
I was going through my stack of swimming rags yesterday, and I came across an interesting analysis of the straight-arm recovery in freestyle in Swimming World’s December, 2014 issue (“Freestyle Straight-Arm Recovery” by Rod Havriluk). The article’s main intent is to put to the test the conventional wisdom that a…
When I was teaching Week 4 of my Monday night triathlon swimming class for the Chicago Triathlon Club, I had a swimmer ask me why she felt slower after we had started to rework her timing, balance, and vessel shape. I’ve introduced the Total Immersion Perpetual Motion Freestyle stroke drills…
I was working with a client this morning and we were talking about swimming on the back. New swimmers have some discomfort with swimming on the back because (a) they can’t see where they are going and don’t want to hit the wall, and (b) they can’t swim straight and…
