How Do You Know When You Are Ready For Your Event?

How Do You Know When You Are Ready For Your Event?

by | 30 Apr, 2023

For the last two years, as a service to our local swimmer community, I have conducted private lessons as well as lake and river swimming clinics to help athletes in our area prepare for the swim leg of our local Ironman 70.3 Oregon race. In the Willamette River that...
The Purpose Of Measuring Stroke Length

The Purpose Of Measuring Stroke Length

by | 9 Apr, 2023

Concepts Stroke length is the distance your body travels forward on each arm stroke. How far you travel on each stroke is a direct indicator of how much work you accomplish and that work is a product of both strength and skill. Some people get more from their strength...
Some Ways To Measure Baseline Stroke Rate

Some Ways To Measure Baseline Stroke Rate

by | 27 Mar, 2023

In the previous article – When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster – I discussed how stroke length and stroke rate are yoked together and suggested as an initial step that you get a baseline measurement of what your current comfortable stroke...
Do You Have Too Many Constraints Or Not Enough?

Do You Have Too Many Constraints Or Not Enough?

by | 19 Mar, 2023

What is a constraint? a limit a boundary a rule a fence or corral We all have constrained imposed upon us by facts of physics, biology, and ecology or set by our culture or even by unique personal features. But here we are discussing the usefulness of voluntarily...
When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster…

When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster…

by | 11 Mar, 2023

The traditional approach to swimming faster is to just go harder and keep at it until something breaks through.  For some, that simple instruction might work. But for far too many it hasn’t.  Regardless of what approach you take to developing technique or...
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