Train And Maintain The Brain
Many people seem to care about what will happen to their physical quality of life as they get older. But do you wonder what will happen to your mental quality of life as you get older? I think we readily understand the importance of maintaining physical fitness. We...
Test for Progress and Weakness
Here is an excerpt from the instruction in the12-week Master Class 1K course inside our Online Coaching Program. It is describing the role of the test swim and guiding the swimmer’s response to it: To test progress and reveal strengths and weak spots you need to...
Stroke-Change Skill
I’ve approached questions and comments like these at least a couple times before on my blog, and let me try another… What if I am practicing the wrong thing? I don’t want to get good at something that is incorrect! Two recent blog posts address part...
Using Drills Appropriately
I received this comment on a blog post recently… I tried to practice Spear Switch drill. I do this along with two beat kick instead of flutter. When I switch, I don’t see any forward propulsion in my body due to the switch or kick. I do see a propulsion due to...
Correction vs. Over-Correction
With just about every movement art and sport I can think of artists and athletes are trying to bring their movement patterns closer to an ideal, whether that ideal is about beauty, power, or efficiency… or all of them together, as in our case with swimming....
How Long Will It Take?
How long will it take to integrate this skill so that I can do it without thinking so much? That is a version of the question I hear from time to time. It is a good question with a very complicated answer, if I were to attempt to personalized it for each person who...
Swimmer Speed Curve – Part 4
This is a continuation of Swimmer Speed Curve Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3… Maintaining best form when energy is abundant is a great Level 1 accomplishment. That is really a good functional goal for recreational swimming, and that may be as far as some want to go...
Swimmer Speed Curve – Part 3
This is a continuation of Swimmer Speed Curve Part 1 and Part 2… In this diagram we see the curve of one swimmer, but with two options for how the curve will form. Below Node #1, when power is low, her swimming is beautiful, smooth, efficient. This is the Easy...