Swimming - the meaning of the forearm muscles

My blog is slowly becoming a story about life and how to survive and be successful.

Here the topic is human rights, the awareness of citizens, and especially parents, and nothing else... the future of a nation is precisely its children... but let's get back to swimming and what is of the utmost importance for competitors...

Psoas major and psoas minor, I say to my fellow coaches at the pool, and they look at me thinking I'm speaking Spanish. These muscles are the primary hip flexors in the hip joint and contribute to the stabilization of the lumbar spine during sitting and standing.

The psoas minor is a smaller, thinner and often inconsistent muscle located anterior and medial to the psoas major.

The psoas minor is present in only about 40% to 65% of the population, and many athletes still need to develop it with appropriate exercises. For swimmers, perhaps the most important muscles that give a decisive advantage to become swimming champions. If I exclude the coaches at the National Sports Institute in Košutnjak in Belgrade and one handball coach here in Leskovac, none of the many coaches I spoke with (dozens of them) have anything to do with human anatomy and biomechanics.

Otherwise, something similar happens when you ask rock-starred experts if they have heard of rock legend Robert Zimmerman.

Today, I am training new workouts with a completely new group of young people and naturally I am trying to improve my knowledge with new experience.

Somehow, all my knowledge from numerous exams passed at two faculties, knowledge from functional training for which I have a degree, experience gained from many different trainings and experience from a previous job, which required complete psychophysical readiness, caught my eye. I am completely sure that today I can improve every domain of movement in any sport or activity that a person is engaged in.

In this text, I will focus on swimmers and the importance of the forearm muscles in swimming. The forearm is very important at the beginning of the stroke, and especially at the end, the stroke.

It is incredibly important, if you can understand it, that the hand stays firmly in place when entering the water. The greatest effort is at the beginning of the stroke, and the fastest stroke movement is at the end, as I said, of the stroke.

However, I have seen too many pointless training sessions, and even downright harmful exercises in some cases. Swimming is a specific sport and the water requires endurance combined with strength, which is a true art of achievement. If you do the wrong training, you will never have the necessary tone in the forearm to maintain the necessary power of the stroke. The hand then unconsciously bends and does not catch the water as much as possible, but just passes through it. The swimmer is explosive, rotates his arms and is in the water strongly and quickly, but does not pass through it at an adequate speed. The forearms are weak and the hand bends back at the wrist. It simply does not catch the water, it just passes through it.

On my YouTube channel, ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuO8TopWZ_4 ) I have shown the most basic exercises and hand positions on the two-handed and one-handed cable for each swimming style individually. We do it cross-over for breaststroke, one-handed for crawl and backstroke. The forearm is one of the most important muscles in swimming because the arm must remain strong when catching the water. The water pull must be strong at the very beginning of the stroke and explosively fast at the end of the stroke. Here I have listed several exercises for each swimming style. Depending on the competitor, the coach determines the number of sets and repetitions, intensity, pace, rests and volume of all these exercises in order to maximize the effect. The way the swimmer grabs the bar or cable grip with one hand is very important, especially in the backstroke. The way the hands rotate when performing the exercises is also very important. The fingers are very active in these exercises.

Of course, this is only part of the complete training. There are also isolation exercises for the forearm with weights that complement the quality of movement during rowing. When you combine this weight training with adequate exercises in the pool, only then will you get rocket propulsion in your hands, which is the right path to the championship throne.

I don't know, maybe I see what other coaches don't see, but the ignorance of many coaches and ingrained political views cannot be justified by anything. In fact, I see very well what is most important, what other coaches don't see. I have no intention of being immodest, but only pointing out what is normal and naturally positive for those children who are above average talented.

The latest trends in the world completely agree with my understanding of training. However, every attempt I have made to overcome a fifty-year-old methodology has been unsuccessful. I realized that there is no progress with people who do not want to achieve it, because for some, politics is more important than their own children.

Life moves forward and I will not let my achievements in this area go to waste. Although I have not been to the pool for more than three months, I regularly follow many training sessions via the Internet. In this current political system, I am not suitable because I have always been a true force of intellect and honesty.

It is normal to ask yourself whether it is in the interest of the people to have coaches who produce champions and good athletes or only politically suitable coaches who absolutely do not care about that?

The parents who come to me these days demanding that I return to the pool are my greatest satisfaction and proof of my correctness !!!

The system is infected with politics and you must not allow it to infect you with this virus, otherwise you will not be much different from the current partocratic politicians people

and you will soon become like them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuO8TopWZ_4