splash! Foundation Training for Swimmers

This 90 minute workshop provides an overview of Foundation Training principles and teaches swimmers how they can incorporate the work to feel stronger and smoother in the water.

Why should swimmers practice Foundation Training?

While swimming is a wonderful low impact exercise for your body, it can also cause  postural issues and other injuries due lack of strength and stability in key muscular structures causing overcompensation and improper stroke technique.

Breathing in swimming is essential. Swimmers are constantly blowing bubbles when they are in the water, taking full advantage of their lung capacity. Decompression breathing, a key component of Foundation Training, will help swimmers experience calmer consistent breathing patterns in the water through expanding and elevating their rib cage and engaging their abdominal muscles. 

Foundation Training helps swimmers create space in their body. By opening the chest, swimmers posture will improve. This space will decrease tension in the shoulders and…