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Coaching / Drills / Starts and Turns / Stroke Technique
For competitive swimmers, one of the biggest areas of opportunity for improvement is in streamlines, transitions and breakouts. An effective way to coach this technique is to break it down into three...
Coaching / Drills / Training
We can probably all agree that kicking makes a huge difference in swimming across all distances and abilities. One of the things we have struggled with in our program is explaining the necessity of...
Coaching / Drills
January is fast approaching and the number of swimmers at practice may grow as the triathletes reemerge from their recovery stage and swimmers with New Year's resolutions and maybe a few regulars make their way back to the pool. What's a coach to do? ... DRILL!
Coaching / Stroke Technique
The breaststroke pullout consists of three phases: the glide phase, the pull-down phase, and the recovery/kick phase. Properly executed, the phases of the pullout are combined to produce maximum...
Coaching / Drills
This is a drill for freestyle that we really like at the moment and for a couple of different reasons:
It lets you know where your head is for posture in the water.
It gives you and indication of where your hand is to prevent over reaching (reaching in front of the head)
It promotes rotation.
Coaching / Drills / Training
Warm Up
Be sure and do a thorough warm up of 400-700 yards.
Following sets use Mode 1 of the Tempo Trainer (TT)
Coaching / Drills / Stroke Technique
From the deck the most obvious difference between lane 1 and 5 is alignment. If Michael Phelps is the 100% bar, than a typical masters elite lane would be 70-85%, intermediate 60-70%,...
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