Pool Tools - Stretch-Cord One Spot
Continuing with fun games to play with stretch cords in swimming, it's time to introduce a bit more learning and pain. Sorry, no matter what you hear to the contrary, it's part of the sport.
Continuing with fun games to play with stretch cords in swimming, it's time to introduce a bit more learning and pain. Sorry, no matter what you hear to the contrary, it's part of the sport.
True or false: Swim practices can be physically challenging, mentally challenging, and fun...all at the same time?
Here's a REALLY fun way to add some productive fun to your practices. Stretch-Cord Release takes the lessons learned from resisted swimming and converts them directly into actual swimming.
Our last in a fun series from Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale. We continue to use the stretch cord as a target with an old standby drill, Tennessee Turns.
Where you land in the water for a start can have significant impact on how fast you transition to swimming.
We can never stress enough the importance of good streamlining and push offs. Here's a quick trick to demand focus from your swimmers, both in and out of the walls.
Anything that gets swimmers focused on their catch is a good thing. When it costs so little, it's even better. Here is a standard drill used by Pinecrest Head Coach Jay Fitzgerald.
When many younger and older swimmers come off a flip turn, they're sometimes disoriented and push off incorrectly. In order to learn a great line, and stable exit from a flip, here's a good sequence to help.
While working at Pinecrest in Florida this week, we've discovered the next best thing to a video-evaluation session... the sun.
To swim really fast butterfly, you have to take advantage of every opportunity for propulsion. The place that most swimmers ignore this opportunity... is in the second kick.
So you want to get your legs in shape quickly? Here's a drill that's not only fun but also just a bit challenging. It's also a great way to work your legs without injuring the knees.
Sometimes the toughest thing in any season is the time between two or more championship meets. You can rest completely for one meet, and the qualify for another... NOW what do you do? Now you have to swim fast again... in TWO WEEKS!
In case you missed the Olympics last week, and in case you missed how swimming was sorta in the limelight, you may have also missed seeing how important underwater dolphins are to a swimmer's success. As a hint, it's the first thing we've started working on... even for us old Masters swimmers.
Sculling at the Wall is a great drill for learning how to move your hands from side to side (rather than pulling back) in breaststroke.
This simple skill is quite possibly the MOST important skill in all of swimming. While I know we've covered this before, after spending the summer coaching young swimmers at swim camps, it can't be stressed enough.
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.