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Posts Tagged ‘Training’

Twenty Tips for a Tip Top Taper!

Tapering is fun, it’s fantastic and above all its about feeling fast fast fast.

It is the time when you feel light, loose and long in the water as your body regenerates and recharges after weeks of hard work.

And above all tapering is one thing – one simple thing that everyone already has in their possession but it is one thing most people use very often….common sense.

Think about it this way.

Imagine you were telling someone – someone who knew nothing about swimming, “I have been training for months and months for a big Meet coming up in two weeks”.

And then you told them, “And for the next two weeks I am going to change lots of things, get little or no rest, stress out a lot and worry about things that may not even happen, eat strange foods that I have never eaten before, buy some different swimsuits to wear on the day without trialling them and I will not spend anytime practicing exactly what I want to do at the Meet”.

They would probably tell you, “Well good luck with all that and here’s the number of a good psychiatrist!”

So how do you have a tip top taper? Read more

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Physiology based Training Set Design in Swimming: There must be Another Way.

Walk on deck at any pool in the world on a typical Monday afternoon.

There it is – the old whiteboard over there at the end of the pool.

And what’s written up on the whiteboard?

Today’s training program!

• “10 x 100 on 1:45 at 75%” or
• “20 x 50 on 1:00 holding PB plus 5 seconds” or
• “12 x 200 IM on 3:30 holding 2:50 or something similar.

You would think that swimming training, preparation and performance was all about the body wouldn’t you? Read more

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Complementary Carnivals: Why Swim Meets Fail.

Ever wondered why the Grandstands and bleachers at your Club Swimming Carnivals and Swim Meets are empty?

Ever wanted to know how to get lots of people to come along to your Swim Meets?

Ever wanted to know how to get the support of Coaches so that they actively support your Swim Meet and send large numbers of their swimmers along to race?

Then design and deliver Complementary Carnivals!

Read more

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Swim Shop – Now Open

The Swim Coaching Brain has Opened a Swim Shop.

In response to the overwhelming demand for more information on swimming topics, we have put together a series of swimming books for you to download and enjoy.

The first book in the series: Longer and Stronger: Stretching and Strengthening for Young Swimmers is available now!

More books will be added regularly.

Make sure you bookmark the Shop page and visit it regularly to check out some of our great new swimming products.

 

Free Swimming Programs: Free Training Sets and Sessions

Free Swimming Programs: Free Training Sets and Sessions

Swim Coaching Brain is proud to announce a great new service: Free Swimming Programs: Free Training Sets and Sessions!

In response to the over-whelming demand, we are now providing free workouts for swimmers and coaches of all levels.

If you are someone who swims for health and fitness or just loves training in the water, check out the free swimming programs on our Swimming Programs for Every Swimmer page.

If you are a competitive swimmer or a swimming coach looking for a winning edge, check out the free swimming programs on our Swimming Programs for Competitive Swimmers page.

So check-out the work-outs and even download them to try next time you go swimming training.

New workouts will be added regularly.

Wayne Goldsmith

The P.A.C.E. System of Managing Swimming Training Intensity.

How to simply, practically, reliably and accurately manage training intensity in swimming.

Now add in these complications:

• 67 kids aged 8 – 13 years all in the water at the same time;
• Only one coach on deck;
• No heart rate monitors (i.e. so any heart rate monitoring is done manually);
• No sports science support.

The challenge just got a little more difficult…..or has it?

Introducing the PACE system – P.A.C.E. Read more

The Engagement Factor – the essential element in designing training sets and swimming workouts.

In my last post, I introduced the P.A.C.E. system – a simple, easy to use, practical way of managing training intensity in young age group swimmers.

P.A.C.E. System Level	Description	Feels like	Used for
P or PACE 1	Practice and Preparation Pace	Easy, relaxed.	Recovery, drills and skills.
A or PACE 2	Air-robic Pace.	Easy to moderate.	Endurance development.
C or PACE 3	Competition Specific Pace	Hard.	Race specific practices with race specific speeds, skills, techniques and breathing.
E or PACE 4	Electric Pace	Fast - explosive.	Speed development.

Now, let’s build on the P.A.C.E. system by introducing the Engagement Factor: the first training prescription system which incorporates a mental skills focus in swimming workout design.

Everyone talks about the importance of the mental side of swimming and how important it is for swimmers to train both their bodies and minds in training and preparation.

Talking about it is one thing.

The next step for coaches is to make mental skills and the integration of the mind into every session and the way to achieve this is to incorporate mental skills in the workout design itself.

Introducing the Engagement Factor.

Read more

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101 Super Swimming Tips for Super Swimming Coaches: 101 Ways to Be the Coach You Want to Be and the Coach your Swimmers want to See.

1. Never use your mobile phone on deck during workouts.
2. Smile – it makes a big difference.
3. Say one constructive, positive thing to every swimmer at every workout.
4. Be a master of technique: technique is critical in fast swimming.
5. Be creative – the best ideas win.
6. Bring parents into your program: parents are your partners in performance.
7. Understand the basics of swimming science: get a “PhD” – a “Practical Human Degree” – i.e. learn enough about sports science to work effectively with people.
8. Be comfortable talking about “winning”. It’s cool to talk about kids achieving their best.
9. Teach one new swimming skill every week. That’s about 50 new skills a year and around 500 over the career of most swimmers.
10. Walk workouts: never sit down and coach from a chair. It’s like asking the swimmers to train from showers. Read more

Top Ten Tips for Swimming Coaching Success.

  

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Here are my best ever Top Ten Tips for Swimming Coaching Success.

Whether you coach men or masters, toddlers or triathletes, females or freestylers, babies, breaststrokers or butterflyers, these ten tips will help you make a success of your swimming coaching career and more important help you to help every swimmer turn possible potential into peak performance. Read more

The Number 1 Reason Why Most Swimmers and Coaches Fail at Swim Meets.

Want to know the Number 1 Reason Why Most Swimmers and Coaches Fail at Swim Meets? Read more

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