How To Find A Private Swim Coach
35 Tips from 35 Swim Coaches
35 coaches from across Due north America share their favorite swimming tips. Stock photo via Mike Lewis/Ola Vista Photography
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The following tips range from technique, to motivational, to dissimilar ways to spice up your preparation. In that location is a little something in hither for anybody, so relish the favorite swimming and coaching tips submitted by 35 different coaches from across North America:
1. Don Heidary — Head Double-decker, Orinda Aquatics
Challenge/back up each swimmer to exist meliorate technically and personally every day. Address a technical issue and focus intently on it, and also talk to kids individually or as a group well-nigh concepts similar leadership, work ethic, reaching out to a teammate, or helping in some mode. This combined approach moves the team forrard in terms of functioning and culture, and connect coach to swimmer and swimmer to team.
2. Murray Drudge – Head Motorcoach, North York Aquatic Gild
Pond is no different from school or the workplace, the most studious student doesn't e'er get the all-time grades just like the hardest worker doesn't e'er get the promotion. Success is talent & difficult work, only kickoff you take to savour the ride.
3. Matthew Donovan — Director of Pond, Somerset Valley YMCA
I philosophy that we have here is we Ever warm upwards with swim fins (not zoomers) – I truly feel that this is a major reason why we exercise non take shoulder issues on our squad. Non i major shoulder injury in the 13 years that I have been at SVY. Nosotros warm up 800-1000 meters each 24-hour interval (13 and up) with fins (500 or so younger age groups).
The general philosophy is that there is a lot of muscle in the legs and when the torso is "cold" the legs should take the stress off the shoulders because (I feel) the shoulders take longer to warm up. We do some pretty high volume sets here at SVY and I think giving the shoulders a break early on on in practice is the key to our success and lack of injuries.
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4. Phil Parker — Head Coach, Laurentian University Voyageurs
I coach university aged swimmers (17 and over) so a big thing with us is preparation for their specific race. Throughout each workout I attempt and recreate some aspect of their race. Ane of our most popular sets is a 25 meter underwater swim immediately followed past a push 25 or push fifty where they are expected to be at their 100 or 200 race pace respectively. By doing the 25 meter underwater swim, we are setting them up physiologically to mimic the starting time quarter or first half of their race.
They and so need to focus and hit their pace 25 or pace fifty nether these conditions….over and over again. We volition likely do 4 repeats of these push 25/l sprints with a pocket-sized swim down after the 4 repeats. The 4 repeats are then done 3 or 4 times through. At this level of swimming, the vast bulk of swimmers already take the technical aspects down pat. They spend four or 5 years with me learning how to train specifically for their race and how to properly recover from workout to workout. That is where the major focus of our grooming lies.
5. Patti Rothwell – Head Motorbus, Tempo Aquatics
"You've got to dull downwards to go fast." This references the value of a long, powerful stroke, even in sprinting…especially in sprinting…as evidenced by the star sprinter, Alex Popov.
half dozen. Nib O-Toole – Head Coach, Toronto Swim Club
Yous volition never see a successful athlete who does non have great technique. The development of proper skills will atomic number 82 to great technique. Only put, anyone tin train central movements, the big ones, only great success lies in the mastery of the peripheral, the fine details and edges.
seven. Alan Swanston – Head Coach, Newmarket Stingrays
I am just an Assistant Coach… the real coach is inside each swimmer.
8. Steve Pickell — Head Coach, SoCal Aquatics Clan
"Don't be late to the trip the light fantastic." Pregnant make sure yous're not out of the race before it starts. This is especially useful for a swimmer that tends to get out to dull in races.
9. DeAnne Preyer — Head Coach, Zenith Aquatic Program
For budding swimmers who struggle to do legal breaststroke boot, put flip flop sandals on their anxiety and have them kicking. When they flex their feet correctly the shoe stays on; If the shoe comes off, the child has instant feedback to re-position their human foot/feet.
10. Nicolas Chevalier — Head Double-decker, WEST Coast Aquatics
I believe honesty is crucial to the athletes success, both in the puddle and later in life. As coaches, we strive for perfection from our athletes but must proceed in heed that it is an unobtainable goal. Consequently, we must teach the athletes how to cope with failure and embrace the never-ending path to constant improvement and growth.
11. Andreas Roestenberg — Head Coach, New Jersey Race Guild
At our club we try to get the swimmers "comfortable being uncomfortable" we train 9 times a week and well-nigh of our training is race based training to get the swimmers used to preparation at high speeds and that definitely makes them uncomfortable nigh of the time. So it's of import to go "comfy existence uncomfortable."
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12. Cynthia Bandaruk – Head Jitney, Splash Aquatics
When working on backstroke technique we practise a series of drills: Robot Drill, half dozen kick drill, moving ridge drill. During the drill fix each swimmer will identify a quarter on their forehead. The quarter helps with 2 things. (i) keeping the optics looking upward and seeing their artillery during the recovery, (2) keeps the head yet. If the kids don't drop their quarter we allow them keep it!
thirteen. Jennifer Beech — Caput Jitney, Temecula Swim Society
Know the difference between practiced pain and bad pain. Good pain is usually the soreness you lot feel after difficult training sets. Embrace the adept hurting because its your trunk telling you that information technology will become stronger and faster.
14. Joe Bublitz — Head Coach, Livonia Community Swim Club
Let yourself to be great, by taking advantage of every opportunity to pursue excellence. Past advancing yourself and learning through every experience, and every moment. Advance every skill in practice, develop weaknesses, and grow your strengths.
xv. Matt Gianiodis — Head Jitney, Michigan State Academy
Earlier your event, visualize your walls: how many underwater dolphin kicks you lot plan to have off each, how far each pullout will go. Plan your walls ahead and train your plan every day.
xvi. Eric Kramer — Head Double-decker, NORAC Pond
Here at NORAC nosotros are big supporters of the book "The Talent Lawmaking" by Daniel Coyle. Efficient swimming is the primal to futurity high performance swimming. All sections of our programme have 1 major goal – to continually amend their skills until they exit for postal service-secondary studies.
17. Ken Sygit — Caput Autobus Blue Water Swim Club & St. Clair Loftier School
What I Tell my Athletes:
"Everyone wants to swim fast, but very few will take the time and learn how to do information technology, stroke technique is EVERYTHING."
What I Tell My Coaching Staff:
"Good Swim: Practiced Swimmer…… Bad Swim; Bad Coach."
18. Sarah Eubanks — Head Coach, Tecumseh Tigersharks
One of my favorite things to tell swimmers is "don't worry about things you can't control". The water temperature, size of blocks, who you are competing against… Concentrate on the things you do have command over… Your starting time, streamline, kicks off the wall, animate pattern. Your race is the only thing you lot have the ability to control.
19. Pierre Simard — Caput Coach, CT-33 Northward Bay Thunderbirds Swim Club
Swimmers and coaches should take nutrition for athletes as serious as the quality and quantity of their training sets. Nutritionally packed foods such as some raw cashews, pecans, hazelnuts, fresh cut veggies and fruit give the swimmers trunk the fuel information technology needs to compete, and stay healthy. Cutting out sweets, fructose, and glucose is key to a salubrious athlete's diet. What is crucial to a swimmer is fueling the body as fast as possible after final, rather than waiting at a eating place for a full meal. Swimmers ideally should have good, nutritional snack immediately after their final event and 30 minutes after their concluding event giving the body the maximum time to digest before going to bed. Water is key during the weekend, not some artificial coloured commercial drinks. Lots of water (minimum 8 glasses a day) will flush the waste that needs to be clear from the athletes bodies for optimum health and performance.
xx. Kelton Graham — Head Autobus, Guild Wolverine
I of most complicated strokes to teach is breaststroke. With so many variations of the stroke it's difficult to figure out what is the best fashion to teach it. One thing that I've noticed that just nearly all actually adept breaststrokers practise is chosen the "line." And what that means is that while you are breathing, you should try to drive your upper body forward and identify your caput between your artillery, lock your elbows, touch your thumbs together and become virtually equally streamlined as you can possibly exist (without putting your easily on top of each other.)
If you can become into this position, this volition eliminate almost 85% of most breast stroke errors and the cool thing about this is that this applies to the l,100, and 200 breast strokes. The just difference is how long you concur the line.
21. Mark Sulger — Head Coach, Sahuarita Aquatics
Here is my top matter that has changed our team dramatically: the Finis snorkel and fins!
We accept trained 1/2 our daily workouts with the snorkel for the by two years. Strokes have improved exponentially for us. We doubled the amount of swimmers qualifying for state. Had four swimmers qualify for Inferior Olympics and are sold on the benefits of these new tools. Besides, underwater dolphin kicking sets with fins are improving dives and turns. Plus information technology's fun!
22. Nick Castillo — Caput Double-decker, HHSC
I would have to say my best tip I ever tell my kids before they swim is,
"Swim your Race! Think like a Bumble Bee, Race like a Race horse! "
I dearest saying this to my swimmers, its very important to understand yous have to call back most your races. In some swimmers if they run into another swimmer next to them, or effectually them racing in a meet, they tend to starting time swimming that swimmers race. I try to teach my swimmers to race the clock and swim your race.
Bumble Bees remember and they are apprehensive. They fly when others don't call up they can.
And nosotros train like race horses, and so come run into fourth dimension, nosotros race like them!
23. William Dillon — Head Charabanc, Jennings County Swim Social club
Swimming is all nigh underwater dolphin kicks. Force yourself on fly, back, free to practice a minimal number of kicks off every wall and effort to continually increase that number. If it helps put a cone underwater and force yourself to kick past it on every wall.
24. Larry Zoller — Head Coach, Mountain Vernon Swim Society
I swam in the 60'south and coached since 1971 and still going strong at 66. The one thing that I always try to practice is larn what the latest trends, coaching approaches and technological assets are. But I put a petty skeptical twist to actually incorporating it into my program. I think a lot of the popular scientific coaching trends are poorly researched and don't stand upwardly to the "test of time".
I never got into the "stretching tendency" that started in the fourscore's and was popular until just recently. What I observed is that many of the hyper flexible swimmers were the better swimmers only they had an inherited tendency to that flexible. If a person who was less flexible worked on their flexibility information technology didn't make them a ameliorate swimmer in correlation to improved flexibility. Just nevertheless so many programs spend hours on stretching every week. They wasted a lot of fourth dimension on something that had no correlation to their improvement. I think the latest trend of dryland training is headed in the same direction. I think some of the extremely weak or unfit swimmers do benefit but most swimmers are wasting their time. No i has even so to prove the increased measurable muscle force in the weight room actually makes every or fifty-fifty about swimmers faster. Yet every bit coaches we are "brainwashed" in clinics that hours should exist spent doing dryland because the college coaches do it. I've really seen many swimmers non maintain their comeback curve or get slower as they get stronger in the weight room or become obsessed with their "out of water" fitness routines.
I think the time nosotros spend in the pool training should not be compromised by time spent out of the pool. Training hard in the h2o is what makes a swimmer fast. The now debunked concept of hyper stretching and the present trend of dryland just dilute and mislead many coaches/swimmers to think in that location is another way to achieve success other then doing hard training in the pool.
25. Pam Araujo — Head Historic period Group Coach Brentwood SeaWolves
Take your historic period grouping swimmers habiliment socks when they are learning backstroke kick. they should effort to boot their socks off (proper kick technique).
26. Harmilee Cousin Three — Co-Head Historic period Grouping Coach, Schroeder North Division at Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center / Schroeder YMCA Swim Team
I am a strong believer that the true "currency" of life here on world is fourth dimension and that the measure of a man is how he uses that fourth dimension. Because time is a finite construct, it is foolish to become through life wasting fourth dimension and doing things for the fun of it. As an athlete, your time is to precious to be experimenting with your grooming. So discovering the purpose for what your are doing becomes imperative; no, detrimental to your athletic being. I define purpose every bit the original intent for the creation of a thing, that was in the mind of the creator of the thing. And then then, purpose is the reason for the creation of a matter. Purpose is the "why" for a thing.
"Why" is the most important question in life. It is possible to know where you are going, when you accept to go, what you are going to do and who you lot are going with; but not know why you are going? The same thing can be said well-nigh your training. Until you notice the purpose for what yous are doing in practice, yous volition never experience complete fulfillment in both preparation and racing. This is something I commencement to teach to my 11-12 year olds and actually showtime to hammer home with my xiii-14 year olds. I encourage them to know and effort to understand why they are doing what they are doing everyday in exercise.
27. Mike Milliman – Head Coach, Oakwood Athletic Lodge
I call up it is most important to focus on good streamline and an up emphasis of the kicking with the toes merely breaking the surface.
From experience over the years (50 or so), I feel the cause is the swimmer thinking directional. That is on the freestyle the kicking accent is on the downwardly beat or the pinnacle of the foot. Frequently you lot can run across the emphasis in backstroke with novice swimmers emphasizing the downbeat on the bottom of their foot. Ii quick fixes that have worked fairly well for me over the years. For the eight-United nations, I go far the water with them, accept them in the face down streamline position,hold them at the hips. Then I tell them that I want them to boot as fast as they can (freestyle), and that I am going to quickly turn them over while they go along with the fast boot. Generally the are on their back with (in my stance) a good fast back boot. I praise them and emphasize that this is the way they should e'er kick on the back. My mail service exact cardinal is to "kick up".
For older swimmers, something quite similar. Take the swimmer push off of the wall, fast kicking freestyle, and before they go to the back flags rotate speedily to their dorsum and keep kicking. Most often the swimmer gets the feel of the boot with a couple of tries.
28. Eric Laitinen — Head Coach, Canby Swim Club
Many years ago there were a lot of different rules. In backstroke you could stand on the gutter when you started. It was like shooting fish in a barrel to really launch yourself into the air and still become into streamline earlier yous entered the water. I was looking at my eleven-12 grouping and notice they never go their hips upward and didn't really dive into the h2o on their starts. Now these are A/B swimmers that have some experience I would not endeavor this with inexperienced or 8 and under swimmers. I thought what would happen if they started by standing on the gutter. We tried only diving off the gutter backwards until they got information technology. Information technology takes several attempts earlier they get comfortable. And then you motility to continuing on the gutter start. Do that a few times then movement it dorsum into normal position. Not anybody gets this right away, but I got some great results getting them to get their hips upward and actually dive into the water.
29. Mandi Smith — Head Coach, Red Deer Catalina Swim Club
The all-time advice I've ever received or tin give to new coaches is "pick something and exist bang-up at it". When yous first commencement working with a group of kids or a program it tin seem incredibly overwhelming and hard to decide where to kickoff and how to have everyone exist successful. In picking a skill, stroke, or race component to excel at, y'all're able to gain some focus and move the grouping as a whole toward a common goal. Yous as the motorcoach get to go an expert in that area and yous and your squad gains conviction in their skills because of their excellence in that expanse. The skill tin can be as unproblematic as beginning jiff second stroke or as circuitous as a specific race strategy execution. Make up one's mind equally the coach what you lot excel at instructing and what you believe is key to fast racing and help your kids be equally passionate near that component of their sport as yous are. As y'all grow with your program exist prepared to grow your focus, earlier you know it, you'll exist an expert in lots of components of this sport and you'll have some phenomenal results!!
thirty. Tony Batis — Head Motorbus, Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics
Nosotros use the term 4dr (dolphin rule) for coming off every freestyle wall as a minimum. This encourages our swimmers to get better on underwater kicking and promotes efficiency. We add dr to their kick counts equally they get better.
31. Kyle Messmore — Head Coach, Viper Aquatics
Tips for Developing As A Altitude Swimmer—
Two main technique points:
(1) Swim with a bent-elbow recovery. This takes a lot of stress off of your shoulders during high-volume preparation periods.
(2) Swim in the "front quadrant" fashion (nearly full take hold of-up; we phone call it "3/4 catch-up"). This promotes a long body line, and allows yous to have the fewest strokes per length.
In preparation:
(ane) If yous want to become a great distance swimmer, work to get the best kicker on your team. Kick is the foundation for whatsoever swimmer, only a powerful kicking in the second half of a distance race is a weapon that will separate you very quickly from the pack.
(2) Every bit you challenge yourself to swim both faster and faster intervals and longer and longer distances (oft at the aforementioned time!), button yourself to exercise it with a progressively lower stroke count. If you lot can primary the "stroke count and fourth dimension" mentality—swimming every bit fast as you can as efficiently as you can—then you lot are preparing yourself for slap-up distance efforts!
32. Matthew Crum — Head Coach, Oregon City Swim Team
Based on influences from Milt Nelms, Neb Boomer, Alex Nikitin, and Franz Resseguie I have come to understand the importance of an athlete feeling balanced in the water. Just like running and walking, to efficiently transfer energy from our body to frontwards motion we need to exist balanced. This can probably be seen easiest with the breaststroke. Generally we tell a swimmer to pull, kick, glide and actually on the glide we want them to reset and so they are non overexerting themselves. And then instead of the passive "glide" on the extension I like to encourage my breaststrokers to actively "balance" on the extension. In that location are multiple ways to piece of work on balance. One of my favorites is to become iii cycles and remainder for three seconds and so restart.
33. Tyler McKee — Caput Coach, WaterWorks Pond
At that place are hundreds of things that become through the mind of a swimmer during an Private Medley race, only if they can remember four primal steps, the pain will be worth the time. Go along butterfly long and smooth, build tempo in backstroke with arms, focus on breaststroke'due south efficiency it is the primal stroke, and drive home with the legs on freestyle.
34. David Marsh — Head Bus/CEO, SwimMAC
A swimmer should always work on altitude per stroke offset, and once they have the desired stroke rate, and and so add together in tempo.
35. Kurt Schallitz – Head Motorbus, Livermore Blueish Dolphins
To improve your kick efficiency in Breaststroke by up to 60% brand certain your kick width is EXACTLY 1/4 your total body length. Doing then volition crusade the vortices generated at the feet to sheer off, leading to increased efficiency and propulsion. The effect is so powerful that you volition feel yourself surging significantly farther with less energy. Nevertheless, kicking fifty-fifty a footling fleck too wide or besides narrow cancels this event, then it needs to be practiced until it become addiction.
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