All Strokes - Medball Toss
If you're looking for challenging ways to gain fitness for your legs, while adding a fun aspect to your training, medballs can certainly help accomplish that task.
If you're looking for challenging ways to gain fitness for your legs, while adding a fun aspect to your training, medballs can certainly help accomplish that task.
Ever since there's been competitive swimming, there have been get-out swims. A great way to encourage swimmers to go faster than they thought they could, with the cherry of getting out of practice 10 minutes early.
Working on the power necessary to increase your quickness in the recovery of breaststroke, as well as increasing your overall strength, can be accomplished through a fun dryland exercise.
Instinct is a tough thing to discover, and what you instinctively do with your hands can have a direct impact on your performance.
This week's drill features some different and fun ways to use a physio ball to work on technique for all your strokes.
Taking an old standard drill like single arm, and turning it in to a set, can force swimmers to think and discover.
While in Santa Clara, we had the opportunity to talk to our friend Brendan Hansen about how to warm up at a crowded meet.
Getting your swimmers to REALLY perform in practice sometimes requires a combination of surprise and excitement.
There are a couple ways to develop a great kick for swimming. One way is to kick a lot, and another is to add resistance to your feet to overload the legs.
In a world where we calculate most things (like money) on a 100-based scale, athletics brings the need for a new type of math, the 60-based scale.
The greatest swimmers have something very important in common... ankle flexibility. Here are a couple quick exercises you can do to help with your ankles.
Last week we linked to a video of Michael Phelps practicing vertical dolphin kick with weights strapped around his waist.
Paddles can sometimes become a crutch, but remove that little rubber tube and they become a great technical training tool.
In reviewing the year, I decided to pick the 10 drills that meant the most to my own swimming or coaching this past year.
We are a group of swimmers who swim really fast, and like to help others learn how to reach their competitive potential in the area of professional swimming.