Fran Halsall’s Core Exercises for Swimming
Join Commonwealth and European champion Fran Halsall and develop your core strength to support your swimming through a range of traffic light difficulty rated exercises in our widget below.
With bullet point descriptions, pictures of Fran in work-out postions, and useful information on muscle groups worked during exercises, our Fran Halsall Core Exercises widget is your concise guide to strengthening your swimming on non-swimming days.
Using the widget couldn't be easier. Simply choose the exercise and then pick your level through the traffic light system. Green is for beginner, Amber for intermediate and Red for Fran level.
Just because you are not swimming doesn't mean you can't work on improving your performance. And all you need is your floor!
For a gym-based exercise workout to compliment your swimming, click here.
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3.55pm 4th February 2011
Barry Wade from LoughboroughHi Heather, it is working fine this end. Try refreshing the page.
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3.49pm 4th February 2011
HEATHER from homeI CANT GET FRANS PDF TO DOWNLOAD . IS THERE A PROBLEM OR IS IT JUST MY COMPUTER. I GOT GRANTS FINE.
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2.03pm 4th February 2011
richard moore from londonI think they are really excellent descriptions and very well photographed.I find it hard to memorise exercises that I have been shown in gyms so these will be very helpfull.
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10.28pm 27th January 2011
LIz from Hebden BridgeI cant follow these very well - for instance the squat thrust description just assumes you know what a squat thrust is!
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4.44pm 27th January 2011
Neil from Halfway up the stairs nowThanks Barry!
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4.35pm 27th January 2011
Barry Wade from LoughboroughHi Neil, the Fran and Grant widgets are now both in printable PDF form. Simply click on the link to download and print.
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12.38pm 26th January 2011
Barry Wade from LoughboroughHi Neil, we are looking at making them printable soon. Will update when done.
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12.33pm 26th January 2011
Neil from Foot of our stairsCan we download the programme in a easily printable format? It would make it easier to follow away from a computer.
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10.05am 26th January 2011
Chris Cottrell (ASA Web Journalist) from LoughboroughHi Liz.
The position is kneeling on your hands and knees with your knees below your hips and your hands below your shoulders.
The best example of this is Fran’s picture in Superman - Easy.
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8.10pm 25th January 2011
Liz from boltonwhat is a four point kneeling position?????
