Simple exercises to strengthen your core and keep you swim-fit. By James Ewart
You’ve probably heard people say or already know that the core is super important when swimming… but why?
The role of the core is to help stabilise the pelvis and spine to keep us balanced and aligned. Correctly used, the core can also create forwards propulsion. More specifically we need to be using our anterior and posterior oblique ‘sling systems’. These are the muscle groups running diagonally across the front and back of our bodies. It’s where great golfers, tennis players, boxers and swimmers generate a lot of their power from.