You can have good positions and decent propulsion, but if the Timing is off, the stroke still looks and feels wrong – especially at speed.

 

This volume shows you how to train Timing as a skill so swimmers can:

 

• Coordinate kicking, pulling, and breathing effectively 

• Find race‑relevant rhythms in each stroke 

• Avoid having the stroke fall apart the moment they try to go fast

 

 

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Who This Is For

 

This guide is for coaches who:

 

• See swimmers who look smooth at slow speeds but choppy or disconnected when they go fast 

• Want more than vague cues like “be patient” or “accelerate through the stroke” 

• Are ready to use constraints to shape timing in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and underwater work

 

If you’ve ever thought, “Their pieces are good, but the timing is off,” this is for you.

 

What You’ll Learn

 

Inside Building The Key Skills, Vol III – Timing, you’ll learn:

 

• What Timing really means in each stroke and in underwater kicking

• How timing errors show up:

  • Late or early breathing 

  • Mis‑timed kicking and pulling 

  • Limbs that are in the wrong place at the wrong time

• How to use tools (stroke counts, drills, resistance, stroke rates, training aids, hand postures) and set design to:

  • Build effective timing patterns 

  • Stress‑test them at higher speeds and under fatigue

 

You’ll see how to build race‑relevant rhythm that swimmers can keep when they’re under pressure, not just when they’re cruising.

 

What You Get

 

1. Timing Manual (PDF)

 

You’ll get:

 

• A breakdown of what effective timing looks like by stroke and situation

• A guide to the most important timing faults to fix first 

• Ideas for layering timing work into your training

 

2. ~75 Example Sets – With 1 Video Per Set

 

You also get roughly 75 example sets focused on Timing across:

 

• All four strokes and underwater work 

• Different intensities (from skill work to race‑pace)

 

For every set, you get:

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• The written set 

• A short ~90‑second video walkthrough (mp4 + YouTube) where I explain:

  • Why the set is structured that way 

  • What timing aspect it targets 

 

You can:

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• Use the sets directly, or 

• Use them as templates to build your own timing‑focused progressions

 

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Pricing & Best Value

 

• Building The Key Skills, Vol III – Timing (this volume): $69 

• Best value: get all three Key Skills volumes (Propulsion, Alignment, Timing) – including this one – with ~225 sets and videos in the Building The Key Skills Collection for $99 during launch (or $197 afterward).

 

If you want a complete framework for the big three race skills, the full collection is almost always the smarter choice.