Checklist For Easier Breathing – Part 3
The Checklist Here is a ‘short’ and essential checklist to help you survey your pattern to look for gaps or weak spots. If you’ve been to one of our training events you’ll recognize many of these points and remember what kind of drills we use...
Checklist For Easier Breathing – Part 2
This is continued from Part 1… Improve Your Understanding Of Exertion Likely, some of you have been working earnestly on your stroke and your breathing, but it is still not coming as easy as you think it should be. You are getting to air, but it still...
Checklist For Easier Breathing – Part 1
Stressful, disruptive breathing is one of the top complaints brought to us by swimmers seeking coaching help. Sometimes the swimmer can experience a great improvement in ease with just one or two little adjustments. But often there are underlying structural problems...
When Swimming In A Crowded Lane
An ideal swim training situation is to be either in a lane by yourself, or training with others in the same practice sets. But there is the situation, probably more common for some folks than others, where your only option is to share a lane with many other people,...
Four Step Training Progression – Part 2
This continues from Part 1 of Four Step Training Progression… Customizing For Each Swimmer Let’s say two swimmers are working on the same skill at camp but have different starting points, because of where they are at in their neural control for this...
Four Step Training Progression – Part 1
Inspired by what we just experienced this week at our distance training camp in Kaş Turkey, I wanted to share a bit how we set up our training at these kind of events. At swim camps we have a special opportunity to work with our swimmers for several consecutive days...What Would You Wish For?
Here are some questions I have been wanting to ask all of you who enjoy reading this blog. Perhaps you would care to take a moment and write me a response. I am occasionally asked by swim students and readers when I am going to ‘write a book’ or compose...
Addicted To Flow
We come to the final part of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. Let’s review… Why pursue flow state? Because flow makes it feel...