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You can spot them in your parking lot: those cars with the bike racks on top, sometimes with the bikes still in them. Along with the racks come the M-dot or oval stickers announcing the completion of...
Drills / Stroke Technique / Training
Want to feel the difference? Kenny Brisbin, coach of the Long Beach Grunions offers tips and drills to improve your feel for the water while leveraging your paddle time.
Drills / Sports Medicine / Training
What is diaphragmatic breathing?
Diaphragmatic breathing is deep breathing that engages the lungs and abdomen together and causes the belly to rise and fall with breaths. The proper position for...
Coaching / Stroke Technique
Standing on deck coaching a Masters workout, I often have mixed feelings when I see swimmers reaching for their pulling gear. All too frequently, hand paddles and pull buoys become crutches, an...
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.
Coaching / Stroke Technique
Over the last few decades a lot of changes have been made to the way we approach swimming and coaching the freestyle stroke. And we've learned that techniques we would never have thought to be efficient have proven to be exceptionally so in some swimmers.
Coaching / Stroke Technique
The short-axis strokes (butterfly and breaststroke) are rhythmic. When identifying the key components to developing efficiency, both strokes must have simultaneous movements of the arms and legs. The...
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