GoSwim GoldDryland - Medball Chest Pass
2 commentsWorking on the power necessary to increase your quickness in the recovery of breaststroke, as well as increasing your overall strength, can be accomplished through a fun dryland exercise.
Backstroke - Starts on the Vasa Erg
Backstrokers. How do they do it? They swim upside down and backwards. They can't see where they're going. They use nose clips. And...they do THIS.
All Strokes - Physio Ball Dryland IM
This week's drill features some different and fun ways to use a physio ball to work on technique for all your strokes.
Starts - Cullen Jones Box Jumps
Want to develop a great start that gets you to the other end in about 10 seconds? Learn to jump like Cullen Jones!
Roque Santos - Breaststroke Stretch Cords?
Olympian Roque Santos answers questions from our app and website users:
Have you tried the dryland breaststroke stretch cords?
Roque Santos - Breaststroke Dryland Training?
The next question in our short series with Olympian Roque Santos. What did you do for dryland training?
Dryland - EVF Isometric Exercise
EVF, EVF, EVF. Early Vertical Forearm is right up there with underwater dolphin as one of the key moves and key concepts in swimming. This dryland exercise will help you understand and FEEL what EVF is all about. And... it will help you develop the muscles that help make it happen.
Swim Pic of the Week - October 1, 2009
Name a swim specific exercise you could do with these simple tools.
Swimming Set of the Week - July 31, 2009
This week's set is actually several short sets that we combined into a stations workout for Masters practice this morning. The hula-hoop station was hilarious. If you don't have this exact list of equipment, just improvise with whatever cool equipment or challenges you can think of.
Figuring out Intervals
This practice helps figure out what intervals you'll be able to train on for future practices. It's tough, challenging, but loads of fun... for the coach.
Swimming Question of the Week - March 17, 2009
What parts -- if any -- of your dryland/weight routine do you carry into the taper?
Dryland: Building Quickness
Quickness and explosive power are essential to fast swimming, but it’s difficult to develop these skills in the pool because of the resistive quality of water.
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Swimming Set of the Week - February 3, 2012
by Reemi Wentzel about 2 hours ago
Well the good luck you wished me was helping me, Sheila! The first two rounds I choose butterfly and the slowest send off. Which left me ... more » -
Backstroke - Double Arm
by GW about 2 hours ago
Use the rotation to 'vault' from side to side and increase power of the stroke and hence, hopefully, the speed more » -
Backstroke - Double Arm
by Jonathan Cain about 2 hours ago
This actually is a great drill, and it should work for everyone because it allows you to really feel what a better catch and earlier appl... more » -
Swimming Set of the Week - February 3, 2012
by Sheila about 23 hours ago
Good luck, Reemi. Can't wait to hear how it goes. Yes, I would either need the slowest sendoff or maybe the 2nd to the last. Not sure. It... more » -
Swimming Set of the Week - February 3, 2012
by Reemi Wentzel 1 day ago
I choose the slowest send off and maybe even I am going to use my burner fins. Yes, this looks like challenging in effort and also in foc... more » -
Swimming Set of the Week - February 3, 2012
by Sheila 1 day ago
I like this set, too. I was looking at it last night and thinking I might do it myself some time over the next few weeks as I might have ... more » -
Swimming Set of the Week - February 3, 2012
by Barbara Hummel 1 day ago
I gave this set to my Masters swimmers last week. By the end, everyone's tongue was hanging out. Huge effort level. But it was amazing... more » -
Swimming Set of the Week - February 3, 2012
by wiken6281 1 day ago
You know, GW, coaching is not a popularity contest. I like this set, its a way for swimmers to challenge themselves and step it up. If th... more » -
Swimming Set of the Week - February 3, 2012
by GW 1 day ago
These sets can make the coach very unpopular because they hurt but, are crucial to getting that improvement every swimmer says they want ... more » -
Swimming Set of the Week - February 3, 2012
by Barbara Hummel 1 day ago
Sendoff would mean turnaround or interval. If you are swimming 100 in 1:40, and going on 1:50, you would be in the column that reads DOW... more »
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