Freestyle - No Kick Stability

Here's an exercise you can do to any practice, that will help your athletes learn balance. Why do it: A great freestyle is based on a solid body line. Sometimes swimmers MASK that line by using their arms and legs for support. This exercise can help focus on the core. How to do it: 1 - Swim freestyle with your legs together and toes points. 2 - Don't kick. How to do it really well (the fine points): This works on a few things; - In order to keep the legs up, there needs to be SOME velocity to keep things in line, so they can't go too slow. - When the legs start to fall, the swimmer will need to tighten their core to keep the line rigid. - When they've mastered keeping the legs in line, when they start to add the kick back in, the goal is that the kick is now more propulsive than supportive.