During the holiday season, we all know that hard training is on tap for everyone; however, there should be SOME time for fun.

So you want to get your legs in shape quickly? Here's a drill that's not only fun but also just a bit challenging. It's also a great way to work your legs without injuring the knees.

In getting a new season started, I decided I'm going to substitute practices this season with daily training on my Vasa Ergometer.

Last week, we presented 3 simple exercises to help prevent shoulder injury. Here are 3 more, just in time for the start of the fall season.

With a new swim season about to begin, it's time to start strengthening your shoulders and back muscles BEFORE you have a problem. Here are 3 simple exercises to help ensure an injury-free season.

In case you missed the Olympics last week, and in case you missed how swimming was sorta in the limelight, you may have also missed seeing how important underwater dolphins are to a swimmer's success. As a hint, it's the first thing we've started working on... even for us old Masters swimmers.

In a recent article for Swimming World Magazine, we wrote about a drill that coach Dave Marsh uses with his backstrokers.

This week's drill is meant to counterbalance our series of paddle drills -- just to make sure everyone knows we're not schilling for the paddle companies! It's also a reminder that the BEST paddles are the ones at the end of your arms... your hands.

If sculling makes you feel like you're getting nowhere fast...wait till you try SIDEWAYS sculling.

What do the hands have to do with it anyway? When you look at the surface area of your hand, and compare it to the overall surface area of your body, you might get the impression that the hands aren't too important.

Solid foundations are what the best structures are built on, and we usually start EVERY teaching session, or clinic, watching to see what foundation our students have. We've used this drill for so long that we can't believe we've never used it as a Drill of the Week. Sometimes we tend to overlook the MOST obvious.

This drill uses fins to help you explore -- in practice -- what true SPEED will feel like when you reach the championship time of the season.

There are so many muscles that play an integral part in your swimming that it's tough to find ways to pinpoint them all. Sometimes it's not until we're intent on making an interval, or a set, that we discover ways to isolate those "lesser" but very important muscles.

It's official. Alpha fins are back in stock at www.zura.com. Here's a fun drill to celebrate the occasion.

The key to fast swimming is just like the key to driving a freight train: It's all about constant momentum. With a train, once the momentum gets started, it's easy for the entire train to continue moving because of the mass behind it. The same principle applies in swimming except that, in swimming, it's TECHNIQUE more than MASS that keeps us moving forward.