PART I PART II PART III PART IV PART V PART VI In parts I-VI, we explored the three basic tasks of effective technical executions...

PART I PART II PART III PART IV PART V As described in part V, rhythm and timing is greatly underappreciated and seldom addressed in...

One of the biggest misconceptions is that skills are best learned at slow speeds without any pressure or fatigue. If you’ve ever bought...

A big challenge in coaching is getting things done in practice. There are different aspects of physiology to train. There are different...

If you want to be an effective coach, you have to be effective at getting change. And the faster you can create change, the more...

Swimming can be a boring sport. Swimming fast requires working on the same, critical skills that lead to fast swimming. And there are...

The sets swimmers do, and how they do them, determines the degree to which they will improve or not. If swimmers aren’t improving, it’s...

Nothing is more frustrating than watching swimmers fail to execute their skills in competition. All that work for nothing. Or worse, they...

I have a confession to make. I don’t care what my swimmers’ skills looks. I don’t care at all. All I care about is the outcome they...

When you only have one tool to get the job done, it’s not a good feeling when that tool doesn’t work. With skill development,...

One of the biggest challenges in swimming is helping swimmers improve their skills. And since improving skill is a huge part of helping...

One of the fastest ways to help swimmers improve is to help them improvement their alignment. As I discussed in a previous article,...

If swimmers can’t create propulsion effectively, they’re not going to move forward. And unfortunately, most swimmers can’t create...

Not all drills are created equal, not even close. If you’re interested in improving swimmers skills, you’re going to be using drills....

While improving alignment and increasing propulsion aren’t necessarily easy to improve, the process of doing so is relatively straight...

Ever provide a swimmer with an absolute textbook instruction of how to execute a skill, and they proceeded to do something completely...

A lot of swimmers aren’t swimming slow because they don’t have a great feel for the water or a great catch. They’re swimming slow because...

There are a lot of skills that swimmers need to improve. That can often lead to one of two situations: 1.     Trying to do everything at...

If swimmers can’t move water backward, and they can’t do it fast, they’re not going to move forward, and they’re not going to move...

It can be one of the most frustrating aspects of developing swimmers. I’m sure you’ve seen it. There are swimmers that are great at...

Just because you know which skills are important to work on doesn’t mean you know which skills you should work on NOW. The unfortunate...

Most coaches agree that swimming skill and swimming technique are important components of performance. The challenge is that there is a...

Even if you take a focused approach to improving skill development, emphasizing the critical skills of reducing resistance, increasing...

PART I PART II PART III PART IV In part IV, we started to get practical with several approaches to help swimmers learn to minimize drag...