Coaching Behavior

Principles Before Philosophy Part I

Coaches are often asked about their coaching philosophy. In essence, they’re asked what they believe about training and getting faster. ...

Problem Labeling

As coaches, our success is largely determined by our ability to solve problems. These problems could directly relate to performance in...

Baggage Part III

In part II, we explored physiological baggage. Physiological baggage is usually evident to coaches, as we can see the changes in...

Baggage Part II

In part I, we introduced the concept of baggage and how it can potentially affect technique if coaches aren’t aware of the potential...

Baggage Part I

Baggage is the stuff that we don’t want that comes with the stuff we do want. It’s the extra we’d rather do without. In the coaching...

Lose the Battle, Win the War

In sport, there is often a focus on the immediate future, and swimming is no exception. How do we get results now, and what do we need...

Checking the Boxes Part II

In Part I, attention was brought to the need to consider planning training from physiological, technical, and psychological perspectives....

Checking the Boxes Part I

When designing training sessions, the goal should always be to optimize the opportunities to improve performance. We want to provide as...

Why Bad Practices Are Great

Over time, our performances reflect our averages. Meet performances are typically the average of our training performance. Championship...

Consciousness and Competence

I’d like to take a different perspective on one of the commonly accepted paradigms in motor learning. If we’re going to be effective in...