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caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 2 days ago | 0 COMMENTS

Head position

Being an effcient swimmer starts with head position.  It will dictate what other parts of the swim stroke do, both good and bad.  The head should be in a neutral to slightly extended position.  One cue I give people when teaching is READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 12/31/2009 | 0 COMMENTS

New Year's Tradition

Five years ago we decided to swim 100 x 100's with our master's swim group.  We only thought a handful of people would show up to do this and all coming from the fast lane.  Much to our surprise, 26 people showed up of all READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 11/30/2009 | 1 COMMENTS

A fun swim session

This time of the year I like to make up some fun swim sessions so that the swimmer's get their fittness whilst having some fun. One of the sessions that can be done when there are a few people in a lane is called the "Snake". The distance can be READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 11/4/2009 | 1 COMMENTS

Being Streamlined Off the Wall.

In this post I would like to look at the way swimmers push off the wall as they begin swimming.
Pushing off the wall is a good way to see how streamlined you are. It also leads to the position your body is in before your first arm stroke.Being READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 10/20/2009 | 0 COMMENTS

Underwater swim stroke.

In my last post I mentioned the connection bertween lifting weights and poor swimming which is usually combined with poor underwater technique.
In this post I would like to point out a few ways to improve underwater technique. By far the biggest READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 9/30/2009 | 1 COMMENTS

Lifting weights.

The season is changing here in Massachuesettes which means the end to Triathlon races and bike riding, leaving extra time for our master's swim group to focus on swimming. It is also that time of the year when a few swimmer's in my group choose to READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 9/16/2009 | 2 COMMENTS

Arm Recovery

What does the arm do during the recovery phase of swimming? When teaching swimming I always tell my Athletes to have a high shoulder and high elbow. Keeping the shoulder and elbow high also help to facilitate good body position in the water by READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 8/30/2009 | 0 COMMENTS

Kick Sets.

In my last post I mentioned how a powerfull efficient kick is used by good swimmers to swim fast. In this post I would like to expand on that and point out ways to kick effectively.
Flippers or Fins are used by swimmers who don't kick well. If READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 8/11/2009 | 2 COMMENTS

Is the kick important?

One good thing about coaching swimming is that I get to see a lot standing on the pool deck each day. The thing I would like to point out in this post is the kick. It seems that when some fast times are needed by the good swimmers, there is READ MORE

caansports, Athletes/Active Lifestyle ON 7/28/2009 | 1 COMMENTS

Warm Up.

Warming up before you swim train or swim race can be a key into how your swim goes. Often in training I will give my swimmers a 200 timed with no warm up and record their times. Then during another training session I will have them warm up by READ MORE

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