Why B.L.A.B.T is so wrong for your swimming - but what will help you improve no matter what your level!
Swimmers, triathletes and their coaches love a good acronym when it comes to remembering something that has well-meaning intentions to help you improve your swimming, but could this acronym (and others like it) actually be holding you back?
Take S.W.O.L.F for example - this is actually half-acronym and half-portmanteau (a fusion of two words), ‘swimming’ and ‘golf’. It's been used for eons by both coaches and now smart devices to purportedly give you a measure of your efficiency in the water by combining the number of strokes you do per length and the time it takes you in seconds to complete each length, i.e. 56 strokes and 56 seconds = 112.
To get a ‘better’ (lower) score one should either take fewer strokes and/or complete the length in a shorter time.
Like improved prowess in golf, S.W.O.L.F purports that to be more ‘efficient’ when swimming you have to try to reduce your total number. However, this is very much not the case, and just like the acronym B.L.A.B.T, we'll demonstrate today how this age-old swimming-vernacular might actually be holding you back!
Today's blog sees us commence a 5-part video series over the next five weeks to help you build-up the fundamentals of your swimming from the absolute basics, whoever you are. As we'll demonstrate, even some of the very top-level performers in our sport can benefit from reviewing these fundamentals.
Click here to watch the video and enjoy!
