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Stroke Technique / Training
A swimming program that invests in an underwater video system has many options. Swimming stroke technique can be analyzed, allowing coaches and athletes to watch arm and leg position, body rotation...
Fitness / Training
Coach Samuelson provides a list of 5 easy things that can help you to get better at swimming now: Warm Up, Enter, Push Off, Breathe Right and Stretch. Nothing here is difficult to do and each of these ideas will make you better at swimming. It’s almost cheating. You just have to do it.
Training / USMS Promotional
Throughout 2010, there was a button on the USMS homepage that you could click and enter a contest to win a Fastlane Pool from Endless Pools. Endless Pools’ products are essentially water...
Fitness / Training
Watch any age group swim team and the majority will moan when the coach says: “Okay, time for drylands.” They fuss and are slow at getting out of the water. They even say under their breath,...
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 / Training
Warm Up
Be sure and do a thorough warm up of 400-700 yards.
Training
Hunched shoulders and tight pecs anyone? As a swimmer you probably know that these anatomical pitfalls tend to come with regular swimming when you don’t stretch and counter pose from the repetitive...
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