Fix My Kick Please (Streamline and Kick Power)

There are two propulsion methods for swimming: the arm pulls and the kick.

Combining a strong kick and streamlined glide is the key to fixing your issue with efficiency and speed in the pool. Check out this perfect CSS swim video. Because this recruit’s streamline is so good, the kick can be much less exerting, enabling him to get a few yards with each kick and glide.

The scissor kick is the most popular choice among the various kicking techniques, especially for land athletes (runners) who may lack fully developed muscles associated with a breaststroke. One of the ways I help fix people’s scissor kicks is to add fins. You can use large SCUBA fins to develop your scissor kick by swimming or treading (with no hands) and it will help you with a stronger scissor kick when swimming without fins.  

Warm up with a 500m swim
Repeat 10 times (below)
Swim 25m scissor kicks only with a kickboard
Swim 50m without the kickboard CSS (focus on kick and glide)
Swim 50m freestyle