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Have Extra Time? Improve Your Posture

Have Extra Time? Improve Your Posture

by | 12 Apr, 2020

If I had to choose a second improvement project for pool-exiled swimmers with more time on your hands, I would assign the work of improving posture.  This essay is part of a series discussing the kind of complementary training you can do while kept away from the pool...
Have Extra Time? Master Your Breathing

Have Extra Time? Master Your Breathing

by | 5 Apr, 2020

While so many of us are exiled from our pools and can’t go swimming at this time, if there was one skill I could choose for you to work on during these weeks away – one that would benefit EVERYTHING else you are doing in life, from sleeping, to digestion,...
The Bigger Picture Of Staying In Shape

The Bigger Picture Of Staying In Shape

by | 29 Mar, 2020

Some swimmers are asking me what they can possibly do to stay in any sort of shape and stay on track for certain events they are still hoping to enjoy later this summer after the quarantine is (hopefully) over. There is  much encouragement, advice and interesting...
Case Study Of My Body Composition

Case Study Of My Body Composition

by | 28 Mar, 2020

Here is a follow up to Your Body Composition And Strength Matter For Speed… Case Study of My Body Composition My body composition is quite lean, and I am on the more ‘compact’ side of males – 176 cm tall and only about 65 kg (143 lbs). I enjoy...
The Power Of Your Adaptability

The Power Of Your Adaptability

by | 21 Mar, 2020

What interesting times! I imagine you are, as I am, being bombarded with helpful information about COVID-19, receiving offers to gather online or do virtual workouts with others, and perhaps several opportunistic sales advertisements. I won’t add to that. I...
Your Body Composition And Strength Matter For Speed

Your Body Composition And Strength Matter For Speed

by | 7 Mar, 2020

Over the years I have worked with the widest range of bodies I can image – young and old, tall and short, large and small, very buoyant and very not, muscular and frail – all sorts. When one is working with a body at any of the extremes several...
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