FINIS Set of the Week: Persistent Resistance
Set of the Week is courtesy of FINIS, a SwimSwam partner. This week’s set comes from Jill Bennett, Director of Sales…
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How to Swim Faster: Improving Starts
There are 3 main parts to any swimming start: the blocks, the flight, and the underwater. Perfecting these will contribute to a faster swimming start.
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KAP7 Water Polo Tips: Beating a Front at 2-Meters
Beating a Front at 2-Meters: On this edition of the KAP7 Water Polo Tips Brad Schumacher gives us some advice on how to beat a front at 2-meters.
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FINIS Set of the Week: Mile Fly Club
This set from Jill Bennett, FINIS Director of Sales & Marketing, comes complete with bragging rights. For even more street cred, do this set long course.
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How to Swim Faster: Perfecting Stroke Technique
The critical role technique plays towards a fast swim is two-fold: minimizing drag and improving propulsion. Good technique improves your swimming efficiency.
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Why Use a High Octane Freestyle Technique?
At The Race Club, we advocate using High Octane Freestyle recovery in the sprint (50 meter) event and at the end of all freestyle (and IM) races.
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KAP7 Water Polo Tips: Attacking The Quick Center Drill
Water Polo is who we are. As water polo enthusiasts, if we remain focused we can positively impact the development of the sport and its athletes.
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Selecting Metrics to Complement Goals
Each swimmer has their own unique set of objectives. The key is to break them down into specific, actionable steps that can be measured over time.
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KAP7 Water Polo Tips: Jug Center Shots
Jug Center Shots: This is a good center conditioning drill. It can also be done with a player behind–sinking before the shots.
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FINIS Set of the Week: Broken Breakdown
This set is built to drive quality speed. The sharp increases in effort should be challenging! Also makes for a great test set for distance swimmers.
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BSN Sports Swim Team of the Week: Lakeside Aquatic Club
The Lakeside Aquatic Club, a USA Swimming Gold Medal Club headquartered in Flower Mound, TX, is this week’s BSN Sports Swim Team of the Week.
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arena Adds NCAA Champion Ella Eastin to Their North America Team
Global sports brand, arena, has added NCAA Champion and Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year Ella Eastin to their North America team of sponsored athletes.
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Loughborough Swimming Signs with Performance Swimwear Brand arena
Performance swimwear manufacturer, arena, has signed a multi-year deal with Loughborough Swimming, the UK’s leading university swim team.
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The Squeezline – Every Streamline … Ever Time
The first thing we teach swimmers is the streamline, and yet every day on every pool deck in the world a coach is yelling… “Fix your streamline!”
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Keeping Athletes Healthy through Load Monitoring
While most athletes train at 20-30 percent risk of injury, effective load monitoring reduces and keeps this risk below 5 percent.
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