Category: Swim Tips
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Your First Swim Meet
This time last year, you wouldn’t have called yourself a swimmer. Look at you now. You’ve picked up the lane etiquette. You’ve expanded your repertoire of stroke drills. You’ve nailed all the turns and you streamline off every wall. You learned how to swim butterfly, and Coach says you’re a natural. You joined a workout
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How to Get the Most Out of Stroke School
Welcome to Stroke School If you plan to attend one of our Stroke School programs this summer, chances are you are already motivated to improve your technique. I don’t have to convince you that the fastest swimmers are also the most efficient ones. But even if you aren’t aiming to break any records, it’s still
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Workout Glossary
The idea for this blog occurred to me after a recent Friday morning session with our development group. The group I am talking about is comprised of beginners — which is not to say that the people in this group don’t know how to swim. The swimmers in this group are beginners in the sense
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Coach’s Pet Peeves
Ok, I get it. You’re a masters swimmer. Pushing the boundaries of human potential is for the young folks. That ship has sailed – you’re simply here to enjoy yourself and get a little exercise. The workout plan is just a suggestion anyway. Maybe you aren’t feeling it today, and you’d rather hang out on
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The only way to build endurance is to endure
Three weeks into our season, I gave the team an endurance challenge heavy on butterfly. Instructions were minimal: “See how far you can go.” This was the set: 5X300 freestyle/butterfly @ :20-:30 seconds rest as follows: #1 = every 6th length is butterfly #2 = every 4th length is butterfly #3 = every 3rd length
Legacy Masters Swim Club 