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Well, I'm still working on my backstroke myself, but a friend of mine gave me a REALLY good tip that's improved my speed by alot. When you reach the flags (that is, if there are any) start kicking your legs extremely fast. Once you're ready to, roll over onto your stomach and do your flip turn. Make sure you always try aiming closer to the floor after finishing your flip turn so you're gliding through the water. When you rise back up from the water, move your arms as FAST AS YOU CAN. This should help you when turning, but when you're actually swimming, roll your shoulders so they're moving in a circular motion. Also make sure you're reaching as far back as you can when using your arms. LAST THING. I don't do this, but apparently it helps. Try... bouncing in the water? I've tried doing it and it doesn't really help, but you could try it. Well, I hope I answered your question. If you already knew all of this though... then. Sorry.

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Well, I'm still working on my backstroke myself, but a friend of mine gave me a REALLY good tip that's improved my speed by alot. When you reach the flags (that is, if there are any) start kicking your legs extremely fast. Once you're ready to, roll over onto your stomach and do your flip turn. Make sure you always try aiming closer to the floor after finishing your flip turn so you're gliding through the water. When you rise back up from the water, move your arms as FAST AS YOU CAN. This should help you when turning, but when you're actually swimming, roll your shoulders so they're moving in a circular motion. Also make sure you're reaching as far back as you can when using your arms. LAST THING. I don't do this, but apparently it helps. Try... bouncing in the water? I've tried doing it and it doesn't really help, but you could try it. Well, I hope I answered your question. If you already knew all of this though... then. Sorry.

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At practice you are supposed to be preparing and. In practices also there are more people in the pool at once so it makes it harder to swim against their waves compared to swimming against a few people in a race and one person in each lane. Also, at a swim meet you are not swimming as much as you do at practice, so you aren't as tired. Finally, you swim faster at practice because at a swim meet, you may be excited or extremely nervous to swim in front of many people. Your adrenaline kicks in and makes you swim faster.

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i woould recomend an energy drink like Gatorade . n eat carbs 24hours b4 u race if uts long distance.

wen ur lining up on the block try and think about techniques you need to do. as a sort of recap.

warm up . do some sprints probs between 2x 25's and 4x 25s it depends on ur expericence

ttry to make sure ur well rested but don't jsut sit around all day try and walk around a bit

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To swim really fast you basically need to mix two things : minimise drag and maximise propulsion. To minimise drag you need to adopt a position in the water as stretched as possible while finding your right balance. Finding the right balance is tricky because you need to feel it rather than think it. To maximise propulsion, you need to use your arms with a "high elbow" position which enables you to form a 90° angle with your forearm, at least in freestyle swimming. Then the water will be pushed to your feet for horizontal speed. This is theory. Then you need years of practice.

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Practice, Practice, Practice and pushing yourself harder than ever before

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move your arms faster, if you cant do that, get more muscle

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do a handstand

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