Swimming Streamline Secrets

When you push a swimmer who is tight in their upper body to perform an Elbow Behind Ears streamline you will see excessive lumbar flexion.

Streamlines are very important to swimming, as every swimmer needs to be proficient at it. This is because streamlines are universal and are required in all races — no matter the distances the swimmers swim, strokes they perform, their age or ability level.

A streamline is one of swimming’s fundamental movement patterns that needs to be executed to perfection.

After all, we are all taught how to streamline within our first few weeks of swimming — so there is really no exercise to not mastering your streamlines.

Did you know that a streamline is the most hydrodynamic position a human can be in?