Swimming is a sport where time is crucial. In a competition, the less time you take to finish a specific distance the better the result is. The shortest and fastest competition is the 100 meters one. Here is where the swimmers show their full speed and good reflexes. Although it may seem that the trial is pure swimming, there are a lot of small details that can transform a gold medal into bronze. Here is how you can avoid these details or improve your time.

First of all let’s talk about the dive. The dive is a very important part of the competition. The 100 meters trial is a very short trial, hence the importance of gaining few seconds whenever possible. If you have good reflexes, this part should represent no significant problem. Cutting to the chase, the main point of diving is keeping still until the shot is heard and then immediately diving into the pool as far as possible. Many competitors get so nervous that they make the dive before hearing the shot, and in an official competition, this simple mistake means you are disqualified from the competition.

Another barrier that would restrain you to keep the best time you ever made is the turn made under-water. If the swimmer does not punch the wall with great strength, this may lead him to lose a couple of seconds, and in a trial this short, it is a lot of time. So you have measure very well the swimming pool in which you will be performing so that this type of mistake does not ever happen to you.

The last detail that you have to focus on is the technique you apply while you are swimming. The speed you reach depends a lot on the style you apply while moving your legs and arms because if you slide this parts of the body in the right spot of the swimming pool, a higher speed is guaranteed.

The points mentioned before are the essential ones that will help a swimmer to perform an excellent trial in a 100 meters competition. There are several other points that will help you improve, but those will depend on the swimmer because as time passes by, and you get to practice more, you will notice your own mistakes.

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