{"id":232440,"date":"2016-12-08T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=232440"},"modified":"2016-12-08T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:50:10","slug":"fitter-and-faster-swim-drill-of-the-week-fingertip-drag-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fitter-and-faster-swim-drill-of-the-week-fingertip-drag-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitter And Faster Swim Drill Of The Week: Fingertip Drag Catch-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to the \u201cSwim Drill of the Week\u201d sponsored by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fitterandfaster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fitter and Faster Swim Tour<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> presented by Swimoutlet.com. Swimming World will be bringing you a drill, concept, or tip that you can implement with your team on a regular basis. While certain weeks may be more appropriate for specific levels of swimming (club, high school, college, or masters), Drill Of The Week excerpts are meant to be flexible for your needs and inclusive for all levels of swimming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week\u2019s drill is Fingertip Drag Catch-Up for freestyle. This drill combines two common freestyle drills, catch-up drill and fingertip drag, in order to emphasize distance per stroke and a high elbow recovery. The drill itself is simple enough: swim down the pool doing catch-up drill while dragging your fingertips along the surface of the water on your recovery. While the execution of the drill is relatively straightforward, there are a few things you will want your swimmers to focus on while doing this drill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, this drill is meant to be slow. Catch-up drill inherently slows down your stroke tempo (and, naturally, your speed in the water) in order to emphasize a long, extended recovery. Combine that with fingertip drag, which also slows swimmers down as they focus on dragging their fingertips across the water on their recovery, and it becomes clear that getting down the pool quickly is not the idea of this drill. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather, swimmers should focus on being slow and deliberate with their strokes. This will give them the opportunity to even out their stroke and make sure their extension, recovery, and pull underwater are set up correctly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the drill, it is also important for them to make sure your swimmers are maintaining a good body position, utilizing their core and legs to stay on the surface of the water. 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