Training & Technique
Freestyle: power is useless without rolling
Level: beginner/intermediate We have already looked at the importance of the right position in the water for proper forward propulsion (Alternate breathing and perfectly balanced freestyle swimming). Coordinating your arms …
Training & Technique
Is there any real link between genetics and performance?
How often have we heard talk about genetics in sport? About how genes inherited from our closest relatives may influence an athlete’s sporting career. In countries that belonged to the …
Training & Technique
What is the real key to training? Making the most of your leg work!
As you will have seen in our previous articles, leg work is a vital part of training. Competitive swimmers vary the amount of leg work they do according to the …
Training & Technique
Late night training ahead of Rio
A.D.N Swim project (first European program for international swimmers) recently spent two weeks simulating Rio hours, in a bid to understand both the psychological and physical affects the late swim …
Training & Technique
Training in a 25 m pool and racing in a 50 m pool?! Here is how you do it!
The short-course pool (25 m) and long-course pool (50 m) are two completely different things. In a perfect world, every club/athlete should have the chance to train in either a …
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Only for the strong
The idea behind this training session is to put yourself in a ‘pre-fatigue’ situation before each lap, simulating a race situation: 5 x 100 meter medley – 30 second rest …
Training & Technique
Build your Strength for a Better Swimming Performance Wherever You Are (Push-Ups)
Do you want a “dry-land exercise” which will benefit your swimming performance without having to go to a gym? Don’t worry! Starting today I will periodically post exercises which you …
Training & Technique
The swim speed equation. Find out how to train for it!
(S)peed = (S)troke length X (S)troke rate This is the equation for swim speed and it is the product of two simple factors, stroke length and stroke rate. The former …
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How to be more efficient at Breaststroke
The first thing to recognize with breaststroke, is that is it’s the slowest of the four strokes and the least efficient. It is the stroke in which you are most …
Training & Technique
Swimming and Gymnastics: a synergy for getting to the TOP
Gymnastics as a training aid for swimming. There is nothing strange about that, we are just talking about a revolutionary training method used by Andrea Di Nino for his team …
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