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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!
Drills / Fitness
If you’ve tried every trick in the book to help your body stay level and balanced while swimming and your legs STILL sink to the bottom of the pool, your coach may affectionately refer to you as a...
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%,...
Coaching / Drills / Training
Warm Up
Be sure and do a thorough warm up of 400-700 yards.
Coaching / Drills / Stroke Technique
This Free/Back Combo Drill is a drill that anyone can incorporate into their training. We’ve mentioned time and time again the importance of head position and body alignment and this drill focuses...
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