The Top Six Core Exercises for Swimmers

If you are lacking in rotational power, find that your technique falls apart quickly, or that your posture in the water is kind of stinky, implement a handful of these exercises regularly into your dryland program.

The importance of core strength for fast swimming has become more mainstream over the past couple decades. Where at one point swimmers would be given a couple sets of crunches after practice, now they are prescribed core workouts that are designed to help improve all aspects of performance in the pool, from building a better underwater dolphin kick, a faster flip turn, and even a more explosive start.

Although doing an endless number of crunches might make you look good in the mirror, do they give you the strong posture necessary to power through the water?

Nope.

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