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Coach’s Intel: Liberty University’s Jake Shellenberger Drops a Lactate Tolerance Set

Liberty University’s Jake Shellenberger Drops a Lactate Tolerance Set (Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures.com)

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Coach’s Intel: Scott O’Reilly from Prince William Swim Club Shares His Favorite Set

Scott O’Reilly from PWSC shares a set that focuses on maintaining stroke rate and leg conditioning. (Photo: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures.com)

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Coach’s Intel: Lucy McLaughlin of Streamliner Aquatics Shares a Drill-Based Workout

Lucy McLaughlin from Streamliner Aquatics throws down a drill-based workout. (Photo credit: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures.com)

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Coach’s Intel: YHubFins Head Coach Corey Coon-Cassily Shows How to Make the Most of Your Pool Space

YHubFins Head Coach Corey Coon-Cassily shows you how to make the most of limited pool space in this morning’s Coach’s Intel. (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, The SwimPictures.com)

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Coach’s Intel: Alex Keyser of Asbury University Shares a Swim/Dryland Combo

Alex Keyser of Asbury University shares a swim/dryland set that he uses with his swimmers. (Photo credit: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures.com)

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Coach’s Intel: Tide Swimming’s Josh Fulton Drops a Mid-Season Stroke Specific Workout

Tide Swimming’s Josh Fulton drops a stroke specific mid-season set. (Photo: Tim Binning, The SwimPictures.com)

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Coach’s Intel: Edward Denny of Cal U of PA

In this morning’s Coach’s Intel, Edward Denny of Div 2 women’s program California University of PA shares a set to get your swimmers racing each other. (Photo credit: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures.com)

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Coach’s Intel: Oakville’s Sean Baker Unleashes a 200 Butterflyer’s Race Pace Set

Oakville Aquatics head coach Sean Baker drops a set designed for 200m butterflyers to hit race pace or faster. (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures)

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Coach’s Intel: Crimson Aquatics Mike Spring Shows How to Make Racing a Learned Response

Crimson Aquatics (Andover) head coach Mike Spring shows how to make racing a learned experience with this workout. (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures)

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Coach’s Intel: Building IM Transition Speed with BYU’s John Brooks

Brigham Young University swimming head coach John Brooks shares a set to help build speed when transitioning from one stroke to the next in IM. (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures)

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Coach’s Intel: Swim Dogs Sprint Set

In today’s Coach’s Intel, Swim Dogs head coach Mark Johnston shows you how to develop speed for your 100 yard-or-meter races.

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2013 FINA World Championships: By the Numbers

Overall, swimming in Barcelona – which hosted Worlds for the second time in 10 years – was fast. Faster than Shanghai in 2011, and if we are going strictly by national records, it was faster than London. (Photo Credit: Victor Puig, victorpuig.com)

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Coach’s Intel: Crimson Aquatics Distance Set

Here is a distance practice courtesy of Kyle Schack. He is the head coach & High Performance Coach at Crimson Aquatics, which is also the home of open water swimmer Olympian Alex Meyer. (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures)

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History Repeats Itself in Men’s 4x100m Free

From the start, this was a back-and-forth, wild race at the 2013 FINA World Championships, but ultimately the outcome was the same as we saw in London. (Photo: Victor Puig/victorpuig.com)

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Mens 200m: Late Entry Agnel Head and Shoulders Above a Depleted Field

The men’s 200m freestyle World Championships Preview. (Photo Credit: TIm Binning, TheSwimPictures)

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