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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
January 4, 2011 | Comments Off
Tags: Coaching, Elite swimming, High Performance Swimming, Mental Skills and Attitudes, success, Swimmers, Swimming, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Competition Tips, Swimming Racing Tips, Swimming Technique, Swimming Training Tips, Training, winning
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
October 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Tags: Elite swimming, High Performance Swimming, success, successful, Swim, Swim Meets, Swimmers, Swimming, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Competition Tips, Swimming Racing Tips, Swimming Training Tips, Training, winner, winning
Multi-Eventing in Swimming: How being a M.E.S.S. makes swimming a lot more fun.
Swimming has changed! The sport’s got a whole lot mess-y-er!
It wasn’t all that long ago when you had to be a butterflyer, a backstroker, a breaststroker, a freestyler, a sprinter, a distance swimmer or an IM-er. Seemed like you had no sooner taken up the sport of swimming, when someone was trying to make you A-something.
Somebody would tell you, “If you want to be a great swimmer, you need to be a-something” – (usually a-one thing).
Now – if you have to be something – you can be a M.E.S.S. – a Multi Event Stroke Swimmer! Gives a whole new meaning to someone telling you your room is “messy”doesn’t it?
With some of the world’s greatest swimmers now showing that it is possible to be great at more than one stroke, multi eventing – (or M.E.S.S. for short) has become something for all swimmers to consider. Read more
July 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Tags: Elite swimming, High Performance Swimming, Swim, Swimmers, Swimming, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Competition Tips, Swimming Racing Tips, Swimming Technique, Swimming Training Tips, Training
Speed development workouts – five of the best speed workout sets to have you burning up the lanes!
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Gennadi Touretski– coach of legendary Russian speedster Alex Popov once said, “speed is the most precious thing in swimming – in the end it is what we are all about – it is what we are all trying to achieve”.
There are no gold medals or world records for the person who can swim the slowest or swim with the best technique or with the strongest kick or who has the best heart rate. There are no gold medals for the swimmer who wears the most expensive swim suit (at least not any more!).
There are no gold medals for the person who can lift the most weights or who has the best hairdo – winning is all about speed. Read more
