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Coaching / Drills / Stroke Technique
Humans are land-based, vertical mammals. So asking a swimmer to get wet, go horizontal, upside down, and then swim backwards? Well heck, no wonder backstroke sets can set some swimmers groaning.
Drills / Open Water / Stroke Technique / Training / Triathlon
It's undeniable: many triathletes consider themselves cyclists or runners and regard the first part of the race as something to be tolerated, or worse, feared. Swimming in a frenzied open-water pack...
Coaching / Drills
One of the biggest problems many swimmers have is an asymmetrical kick. It shows up in butterfly, backstroke and freestyle on the starts and streamlines, as well as in both freestyle and backstroke...
Coaching / Drills / Training
Want to build a little team camaraderie and teach your swimmers about pacing and clock awareness? Here is a set that could help you achieve these objectives.
The idea for the main set comes from...
Coaching / Drills / Stroke Technique
Triathletes offer an interesting combination of challenges for masters swim coaches. We must always coach the individual in front of us, but, as a group, triathletes share some common...
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...
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