One Stroke Technique For Everyone? Part 2

One Stroke Technique For Everyone? Part 2

by | 20 Oct, 2018

This continues from Part 1 of One Stroke Technique For Everyone? Improve What Is Improvable Let’s consider some of the features that could be improved if an athlete were motivated to do so: soft-tissue and joint immobility low flexibility low strength poor...
One Stroke Technique For Everyone? Part 1

One Stroke Technique For Everyone? Part 1

by | 6 Oct, 2018

Let me give you a short answer to the question in the title of this post: Yes, there is a technical ideal we are aiming for, for every standard-equipped human swimmer. And, yet we recognize that there is so much variety in bodies that some compromise is often...
What You Can Learn About Speed From Butterfly

What You Can Learn About Speed From Butterfly

by | 2 Sep, 2018

Even if you do not practice the butterfly stroke, you may appreciate this approach to solving the not-getting-any-faster problem… Coach Jamee and I have been working with a mother and three kids (10, 12 and 16) on a swim team who came to us to work on freestyle...
Designing A Weekly Practice Pattern

Designing A Weekly Practice Pattern

by | 28 Jul, 2018

This is part of a series called The Happier Swimmer: how to set up your practice lifestyle so that you are making steady improvement toward your goal, making the body safer and stronger, and enjoying the process more than ever so you have the motivation to keep...
How To Make Your Stroke Longer

How To Make Your Stroke Longer

by | 7 Jul, 2018

The universal speed equation is… Speed = Stroke Length x Stroke Rate If you want to go faster in the water you need to make stroke length (SL) longer without losing more than a calculated amount of stroke rate, or you need to make stroke rate (SR) higher without...
Tips For Designing A Single Practice Session

Tips For Designing A Single Practice Session

by | 23 Jun, 2018

This is part of a series called The Happier Swimmer: how to set up your practice lifestyle so that you are making steady improvement toward your goal, making the body safer and stronger, and enjoying the process more than ever so you have the motivation to keep going....
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