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Swimming Set of the Week - August 6, 2010

Working IM and breath control this week.


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Turns - Stable Pushoffs

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Jul 21, 2010 07:51AM | 5 comments 5 comments

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.


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Swimming Set of the Week - June 18, 2010

By Barbara Hummel to Set of the Week | Jun 18, 2010 12:51AM | 3 comments 3 comments

This week's set can be used as an aerobic recovery set. For a more aggressive workout, pick one of the tracks (either the pulls or the IMs) and push those swims.


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Breaststroke - Breath Control

By Glenn Mills to Breaststroke | Jun 15, 2010 04:50AM | 2 comments 2 comments

To really excel at breaststroke, you need to be able to control your breathing...and not just the breathing in, but also the breathing OUT!


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Swimming Pic of the Week - May 20, 2010

By Glenn Mills to Pic of the Week | May 20, 2010 01:08PM | 5 comments 5 comments

This week's Pic is a moving picture. Doing our best to illustrate the speed at which the hands and head need to move forward after the breath in breaststroke. Tell us how we (me) did. It's a work in progress... thanks to Roque Santos.


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Swimming Set of the Week - March 26, 2010

By Barbara Hummel to Set of the Week | Mar 26, 2010 12:49AM | 1 comment 1 comment

Sometimes what you crave is just a mellow hour at the pool. Time to recover and maybe work on your EVF.


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Bubble Bottle Cap

By Glenn Mills to Articles | Mar 02, 2010 10:19AM | 12 comments 12 comments

First, I have to apologize that I don't have a new drill this week. However...


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Swimming Pics of the Week - February 25, 2010

By Glenn Mills to Pic of the Week | Feb 25, 2010 10:11AM | 3 comments 3 comments

Here's a quick series of shots showing a breathing pattern for backstroke.


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Swimming Set of the Week - February 19, 2010

By Barbara Hummel to Set of the Week | Feb 18, 2010 10:43AM | 1 comment 1 comment

This week's set is a trimmed down version of a set that Glenn posted a few days ago...AKA it's a set for the rest of us :)


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Swimming Set of the Week - May 15, 2009

By Barbara Hummel to Set of the Week | May 15, 2009 09:11AM | 12 comments 12 comments

This week's set of the week helps you work on many elements of breaststroke: breath control, narrow kick, body undulation, and high elbows during the pull.


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Swimming Set of the Week - March 10, 2009

By Barbara Hummel to Set of the Week | Mar 10, 2009 10:30AM | 0 comments 0 comments

The swimming set this week combines fins and paddles for a stroke-count set that works breath control and cadence control.



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