How to Nail the Taper
Reach your body’s peak performance level by diminishing training volume—enabling your body to recover from the physiological stress of months of heavy training. Literature suggests the taper period should involve a reduction to 40-60% of one’s training volume to maximize performance gains.
Follow coach Rachel Stratton-Mills’ yearlong club tour leading up to 2016 Olympic Trials
With just under a year left until the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, one swim coach is taking a tour across America to see a wide view of America’s Swim Team in the lead up to America’s biggest swim meet.
Aqualillies for JOLYN: July Lookbook
Photographer Hailley Howard – Producer Mallyce Miller – Makeup + Hair Marlaine Reiner – Models: Jeanie Joseph, Jane Kok, Ali Ziel and Diana Care – Coordinators: Kate and Carla Niis
3 Steps to Better Sleep during Travel Meets
With the end of the season fast approaching, swimmers are beginning to taper for peak performances. Elite athletes know how…
Leila Vaziri Technique Tips: Freestyle hand position (Video)
Swimming requires a certain amount of feeling and grip of the water – correlating to your hand. Your palm should be flat, creating a gentle pull on the water. Your fingers are slightly spread apart.
TritonWear Makes Superior Swimmers With Revolutionary Technology
Real-time data in a coach’s hand is a powerful tool that will allow coaches to optimize each swimmer’s training program.
Trent Grimsey’s Top Three Tips for Open Water Efficiency
Trent Grimsey: “The three biggest areas you need to master if you want to become as efficient as possible in the open water are body position, sighting and breathing.”
Leila Vaziri Technique Tips: Backstroke head position (Video)
This week, swim coach Leila Vaziri takes on backstroke head position in her weekly series of technique videos.
Visualization for Swimmers: 5 Tips for Faster Swimming
Top swimmers like Michael Phelps use visualization to make the most of their hard work in the pool. Here are 5 tips to making it work for you.
The Top 4 Rules For Post Swim Meet Recovery
With several meets upon us in a short summer season, recovering quickly from long competitions is important to maintaining consistency in your training. When you finish that final race on Sunday, take your recovery seriously in order to re-focus your energy heading into another week of training.
Ryan Lochte Reveals New Element Of His Freestyle In Athens
During the freestyle leg of his 200 IM, he rolled onto his back while underwater in streamline and kicked out on his back until just before his breakout.
3 Steps to Better Body Position in Swimming
Giving your body the best opportunity to maintain form during a race will help you finish stronger. Let’s discuss how to improve your body position.
Let Injuries Be A Test Of Our Character
Injuries come with our sport. That is a simple truth. Unfortunately, regardless of how well we take care of ourselves…
Coach Chaney and the Colorado Torpedoes Excell with USRPT
Two years ago, Colorado Torpedoes Swim Team head coach, Roy Chaney, found himself looking for a change…
Elizabeth Beisel Joins Mutual of Omaha Gold Medal Team
Olympian Elizabeth Beisel has joined Mutual of Omaha’s Gold Medal Team, a select group of active and retired swimmers, sponsored by Mutual of Omaha, who represent the sport to young people across the country.
