Swim Training: How to ramp up your strength with dryland training
While there’s nothing as essential for swimming as water, there are plenty of ways you can improve your swimming performance without getting wet. For those athletes who have trouble getting to the pool as often as they might like, effective dry-land training can be a helpful fallback.
Swim Training: How to Generate a More Powerful Catch
Building strength through swimming alone can be difficult. With proper strength training on land, and with resistance tools like stretch cords and parachutes in the water, swimmers will increase their power with each stroke.
Not Just Another Challenge – Ultramed Challenge 2014 – Photo Vault
Swimming photos are courtesy of David Zammit.
Mix up swim practice with the Tempo Trainer Pro and Foil Monofin
The TTP is a great way to incorporate precision into an array of otherwise routine sets. For instance, try using the TTP in conjunction with a Foil Monofin to tune into a controlled underwater kick.
Beautiful Barbados Offers Swimmers Open Water and Masters Swimming Competitions
Continue reading if you would like to swim in calm crystal waters above a white sand bottom in a magnificent, historic location designated as part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
2014 USA Swimming Foundation Fantasy Camps Headlined by 8 Olympians and Olympic Coaches
The Youth Fantasy Camp will feature coaches David Marsh and Todd Schmitz, current National Team athlete Anthony Ervin, and swimming icon Mel Stewart. The Adult Fantasy Camp will feature coach Bruce Gemmel, current National Team athlete Nathan Adrian, and swimming icons Rowdy Gaines and Debbie Meyer.
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Olympic Champion Rebecca Soni: The Mental Aspects of Peak Athletic Performance (Part 1 of 2)
RICH ROLL PODCAST WITH REBECCA SONI Rebecca Soni gets the Rich Roll treatment, nearly two and half hours of conversation…
Improve Swimmer Hip Rotation, Symmetry and Rhythm with the Tech Toc
As most swimmers and coaches know, improving stroke efficiency often requires precise technique correction that calls for private instruction, underwater filming, but most of all, TIME.
Brain-based movement learning for swimmers – TED x Video
Sean Hutchison, former U.S. Olympic coach and the inventor of IKKOS, explains his patented, brain-based movement learning system.
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From a Swimmer’s Perspective: Air Quality
Contributor Lauren Perdue is a 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist and one of the most decorated swimmers in ACC History.
Blucore introduces the Corsuit
For over three years now, swimmers have struggled to reach the times set during the era of the Supersuit. Now Blucore is doing something about it, with the release of the Corsuit.
Olympic Gold Medalists ‘Make a Splash’ With Water Safety Events In LA and Long Beach
The national tour features new USA Swimming Foundation’s Ambassadors Nathan Adrian, Janet Evans, Anthony Ervin (featured image), as well as Olympic Gold Medalists Rowdy Gaines, Jason Lezak, Jessica Hardy, and two-time Olympian Chloe Sutton.
7 Butterfly Sets To Test Your Toughness
Seven butterfly sets from Bob Bowman to David Marsh to elites and fitness swimmers.
7 Distance Butterfly Swims That Might Make You Cringe in Pain
Swimming video of long distance butterfly swims, 500 yards to 10k.
Resistance Training: Try This Swim Parachute Set
Becoming comfortable with fatigue is a crucial part of the racing experience, particularly to swimmers who regularly compete in the 200’s of stroke. The added drag experienced while swimming with a Swim Parachute simulates this feeling to perfection, allowing you to provide real-time feedback in a training setting.
