Something in my wheelhouse!
We have a saying at Sport Performance: Your body is your toolbox and it's all you have. The better the tools, the quicker and more completely you build skills and capacities.
The structure of your body is your most basic tool, and the simplest expression of the health and integrity of structure is posture. Posture represents the position of the bodies joints and segments. The anatomy of the human body means there is ideal posture.
For swimmers, good posture is essential to avoiding injury. Poor posture is also the most common fault affecting swim speed via greater drag and poor joint and muscle efficiency.
The article attached explains the relationship between posture and mechanical efficiency, and describes the muscles need to be 'long' and those that need to be 'strong' in swimmers.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8foxxYnBfVoNVV5S2dxWFZYcFE
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