{"id":20363,"date":"2026-03-09T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20363"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:43:06","slug":"butterfly-swim-technique-training-for-lift-creation-via-body-undulation-instead-of-arm-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20363","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Swim Technique - Training for lift creation via body undulation instead of arm strength"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/929151969662506\/?tn=%2CO\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/929151969662506\/?tn=%2CO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Two key takeaways:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2022 Use your body undulation to create lift through the chest so your arms can focus on moving you forward. Fly is rhythm first, strength second.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2022 Pinch your shoulder blades on recovery. Scapular retraction lets your back muscles carry the arms instead of muscling through with the front shoulders. Flow with ease.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This is the kind of detail we love breaking down \u2014 because fast swimming is built on mechanics, not just grit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/929151969662506\/?tn=%2CO Two key takeaways: \u2022 Use your body undulation to create lift through the chest so your arms can focus on moving you forward. Fly is rhythm first, strength second. \u2022 Pinch your shoulder blades on recovery. Scapular retraction lets &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20364,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363\/revisions\/20364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}