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...
Which Podium Are You Aiming For?
In engineering there is this rule of optimization which says you can’t optimize for everything in a system. You have to choose what few functions or goals to prioritize and give greater resources to and which to strip resources from. You can’t have it...
Flow Alters Sense Of Time
This continues from Part 7 of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. #7 – Altered sense of time, which usually seems to pass faster. An...
When To Train With Others?
My long time friend (since 5 years old!) and I were debating the merits of training with others. Our conversation was about running, but when I composed my summary of our thoughts I realized this would apply to swimming as well, in the case of training for a...