GoSwim GoldAll Strokes - Medball Toss
5 commentsIf 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.
All Strokes - Get-Out Swim
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.
Dryland - Medball Chest Pass
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.
All Strokes - Hand Instinct
Instinct is a tough thing to discover, and what you instinctively do with your hands can have a direct impact on your performance.
All Strokes - Physio Ball Dryland IM
This week's drill features some different and fun ways to use a physio ball to work on technique for all your strokes.
All Strokes - Single-Arm IM
Taking an old standard drill like single arm, and turning it in to a set, can force swimmers to think and discover.
Brendan Hansen - Meet Warm-Up
While in Santa Clara, we had the opportunity to talk to our friend Brendan Hansen about how to warm up at a crowded meet.
All Strokes - Race Day
Getting your swimmers to REALLY perform in practice sometimes requires a combination of surprise and excitement.
All Strokes - Kick Overload
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.
All Strokes - Math
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.
All Strokes - Ankle Flexibility
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.
All Strokes - Vertical Dolphin Variations
Last week we linked to a video of Michael Phelps practicing vertical dolphin kick with weights strapped around his waist.
All Strokes - Strapless Sculling
Paddles can sometimes become a crutch, but remove that little rubber tube and they become a great technical training tool.
My 10 Favorite Drills of 2010
In reviewing the year, I decided to pick the 10 drills that meant the most to my own swimming or coaching this past year.
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Eight years old and being taught breaststroke in 61 degrees water (part of a river in Amsterdam). Kind of like to share this and being pr... more » -
Main Set Thursday - February 2, 2012 - Groundhog Practice
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