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www.thumbsupswimming.com – These triathlon swim training exercises will increase strength to your lower abs which are the muscles that keep you floating in the water

www.thumbsupswimming.com – This triathlon swimming training drill teaches you the proper way to rotate and keep your stroke out in front of you

Learn breathing exercises like lung busters or underwaters to increase breath control for synchronized swimming in this free swimming lesson video. Expert: Ymajahi Brooks Bio: Ymajahi Brooks is a competitive swimmer with 15 years of experience. She is a YMCA swim coach & competes with a masters club sychronized swim team. Filmmaker: Nili Nathan

www.mindbites.com In this lesson, Kostas Patiniotis, an elite swimmer tells us about swimming. He compares it to an art form just as an artist has to spend hours in the studio honing their craft, swimmers have to spend hours in the pool fine-tuning their technique and stroke. Swimming is a great exercise that helps to improve mobility, ease back pain and arthritis, and reduce high blood pressure and tension all while managing to be low-impact and thus better for your joints than many alternatives. Swimmers who are able to shut out everything else to focus on swimming during competition and practice are the ones that do the best. Oftentimes, they win races though they take fewer strokes than competitive. The combination of breathing, kicking, rotation, and stroking are the keys to perfecting the art of swimming. To master these, Kostas walks us through several exercises. First, he shows a good breathing drill to work on maintaining a good stroke while breathing. Next, he shows us an exercise that focuses on the upper body and the rotation of the shoulders. Third, he shows us an armpit drill that ensures the swimmers elbows are high enough to get a good entry into the water. Thereafter, he shows us the flutterboard drill that focuses on the leg portion of the stroke. Pulling with paddles is the next drill. It helps build strength overall (and especially in the arms) and helps swimmers gain feeling for the water while concentrating on the entry of the hands. Derek Duke Noble (www.bodynoble.com), the host and creator of Urban Fitness TV (www.urbanfitnesstv.com), is a world-renowned celebrity lifestyle and fitness guru.