Reducing Frontal Drag With Hammer Head Swim Caps
The Race Club’s Dr. Gary Hall Sr. explains how the Hammer Head caps effectively reduce frontal drag and allow your swimming speed to reach the next level.
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Three Great Home Exercises To Build a Better Butterfly
Butterfly is the most difficult swimming stroke to do well, requiring incredible amounts of strength in the legs, core and shoulders.
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Three Home Exercises to Build a Better Breaststroke
Breaststroke is the toughest stroke to teach and learn, partly because it requires a different set of tools in order to do well than the other three strokes.
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Three Home Exercises to Build a Better Backstroke
Gary Hall Sr.: “After teaching backstroke for years…I am more successful teaching the proper pulling motion and body rotation with the swimmers…”
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The Race Club Hosts Free Webinars April 23rd and 24th
Join us for a FREE Webinar April 24th, 1 PM EST, with Alabama Swimming Head Coach Coley Stickels. Coley is known for his innovative dryland routines.
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The Race Club Hosts Free Webinars Thursday and Friday With Olympians
The Race Club Hosts Free Webinars with Olympian Kim Vandenberg on Thursday and with Alabama Swimming coach Coley Stickels and Olympian Ryan Held on Friday.
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The Race Club Hosts Free Webinar Friday with Coley Stickels, Gary Hall Sr.
The Race Club is hosting a free webinar with Head Coach of Alabama Swimming, Coley Stickels, on Friday, April 3, at 1 p.m. ET.
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Reducing Frontal Drag, Racing Caps
To compete in swimming at your very best, every possible effort should be made to reduce frontal drag during your race.
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Turn Techniques Part 1: When to Start the Dolphin Kick
There are 3 controversial topics regarding the dolphin kicks taken off each wall on turns: when to initiate the first and final kicks and how many to take.
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Reducing Frontal Drag – Tech Suits
Frontal drag is the enemy of the swimmer and reducing it needs to be a primary objective. Since tech suits are not inexpensive, are they worth the investment?
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Swimming Efficiency – What Does It Mean?
Swimming efficiently is important and without it, we probably won’t win a race. Coaches tend to equate swimming efficiency with speed. They are not the same.
Virata Aperta: Come Eseguirla Al Meglio Nello Stile Rana E Farfalla
Virata Aperta: I consigli di Gary Hall Sr. per eseguire al meglio quetsa particolare virata nello stile rana e nello stile farfalla
The Race Club Becomes an Official Partner of U.S. Masters Swimming
USMS members will receive free access to The Race Club’s subscription content and opportunities to be in swimming clinics led by Gary Hall Sr.
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The Coupling Motions of the Start: The Arm Swing
There are three principal coupling motions on the start; the head lift, the arm motion and the back leg kick up in the air.
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A Great Pearl for Faster Freestyle Flip Turns
With the freestyle flip turn, we break the turn down into four important parts; the approach, the flip, the underwater and the breakout.
