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While commonly enjoyed recreationally, swimming is a highly-competitive sport that tests the speed, strength, and skill of athletes through a variety of individual and team events. Race finishes often come down to just a fingertip as competitors use a variety of swimming strokes (dictated by the event category), including freestyle (front crawl), backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke.

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Making Time for Training Can Make a Difference
January 29, 2018
Let’s clear the air here.  Everyone has uttered this phrase at some point in life. Whether it is working hard in school around exam season, starting a new job, or running the four corner spread with multiple kids, sports, and commitments. Time is the biggest issue that pops up in training. It doesn’t matter if […]
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‘No Legs, No Limits’ For USA Paralympian Roderick Sewell Jackson
January 28, 2018
Roderick Sewell Jackson has overcome obstacles throughout his life. His next challenge? The Paralympics.
High Elbow Freestyle Recovery
January 22, 2018
So combining a great kick and rotation, a swimmer will now be able to keep the elbow as the highest point during the recovery. In the stroke technique world, there is a lot of emphasis on a high elbow pull — but not necessarily, a high elbow recovery. Every fan, swimmer or coach has taken […]
Six Ways Swim Parents can Encourage Great Swimmer-Coach Relationships
January 18, 2018
Open communication between your children and their coach is fundamental in building a better relationship. How important is the relationship between your children and their swim coach? Coaches have such an impact on our kids’ lives. Our kids may look back on their coaches as some of the most influential people shaping their goals and […]
Why We Should Rotate Our Bodies in Freestyle and Backstroke
January 11, 2018
The bigger we are (more mass) and the faster we can rotate, the more energy we create to couple with the pull, and the faster we swim. All of the elite swimmers of the world rotate their bodies along the long axis, the axis that their body is moving down the pool, while swimming freestyle […]
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How to Pace Your Race
January 9, 2018
One cannot sustain the pace well nor finish fast without providing enough oxygen to the body. Knowing how to pace a race appropriately is one of the most difficult aspects of competitive swimming. It goes against our very nature, particularly when we are excited and fresh at the start of each race, to hold back. […]
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Developing Internal Confidence
January 8, 2018
Every time you learn something new, accomplish a small task, or reach a new milestone, let that growth and improvement make you feel better about yourself and believe in what you’re capable of doing even more. There’s very much a connection between the mind, the body, and our physical actions where everything is interconnected and […]
Five Ways to Get Your Swimming Goals Back on Track
January 8, 2018
What are the three to four things that will impact your swimming the most? Is it your mental game? Your nutrition habits? Breathing patterns? Your turns? No matter our best intentions and motivations, inevitably we will face droughts in our swimming. Whether it is a long bout of training becoming inexorably draining, out-of-the-pool stuff becoming […]
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Three Tips to Help Parents Deal With the Dreaded Plateau
January 4, 2018
Swimmers may see success and get best times in events they rarely swim. Also, they worked on specific things in practice like underwaters or breakouts. When swimmers focus on improving technique, their times will eventually get faster. The ever-dreaded plateau. It’s almost as bad as the “shank” in golf. I shanked every iron shot for […]
Why the One Arm Backstroke Drill Matters
December 28, 2017
Rarely do I ever find a drill that can teach a swimmer more than one fundamental at a time, but this drill does just that. Two of the most important ways of getting a faster backstroke is by reducing frontal drag and by increasing propulsive power. The one arm backstroke drill accomplishes both tasks. Rarely […]
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