Swim Coaches Blog
Taper time is a well thought out process of preparing your swimmers for championships. Taper means QUALITY work and QUALITY recovery just to begin. Race Pace, Variable Speed swimming and kicking, Understanding the process of resting legs, etc are huge components of this 7 week preparation. The outlines will spell out exactly what distances […]
This is a follow up to an article we posted on Facebook in January 2012. The article was titled “The 10 Principles of Athletic Success.” If you have questions, please know that we answer every email and phone call. For the next 3 email newsletters, we’ll be discussing Successful Sports Task Management. Successful task management […]
We look at regeneration as the ability to recover from a given session, training phase or season and then be ready to move on to the next level. Regenerative methods can include a wide variety of specific measures (sauna, massage, Epsom salt bath, etc) and for our purpose of moving from general to specific, we […]
Again, we look at regeneration as the ability to recover from a given session, training phase or season and then be ready to move on to the next (higher) level. We covered sleep and sleep-related strategies in Part Two, and we move on to the other main influence for Regeneration – Nutrition. As with sleep, […]
One of our friends recently had questions about core rotations and core training. This is the information we sent him: Core rotations are simply rotating through core exercises for a given amount of time. For example Core rotations – 4 min, switch exercises every :30 could just be a series repeating – for instance, alternating […]