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What to teach your younger swimmers (8 & under)

These kids are the youngest novice swimmers on the team, most of them fresh out of lessons, and they are initially able to swim a little backstroke and freestyle. Their attention spans are brief, their energy levels are high, and their control aver their bodies in the water is low. But their daily improvement is noticable; to a good coach, they are as moldable as soft clay to a potter.

Sample sets for threshold endurance training

The sets that can be used for threshold endurance training are like the ones you use for improving your basic endurance (except for continuous swimming sets), but at anaerobic threshold pace. The swimmers should be able to swim at the correct training pace and with the appropriate rest between repeats.

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The four D's

What makes a swimmer trully great?

What makes him/her be ahead of the pack?

In this blog I will try to answer these questions. All elite swimmers have about the same levels of fitness (endurance, flexibility and speed mainly), feel of the water, pacing and about the same anatomical characteristics. So, what makes the gold medal winners at the Olympics and World Championships differ than the rest. The answer is the four D's, which are psychological qualities that help swimmers set higher goals and keep the focused during the long and tiring (and some times frustrating) training periods.

Types of sets for basic endurance training

Hello my friends and a happy new years to you and your families with a lot of love, health and swimming!!!

I'm sorry I didn't blog for quite a long period of time but today I'm back and I hope this time for good.

You are probably getting bored of doing the exactly same training routine every day. Today's blog will help you make your training more interesting and challenging. In this blog I will try to refer to the types of sets a swimmer and/or a coach can use to improve basic endurance training (En-1). If you want to remember the guidelines for constructing basic endurance sets see here. In the following days I will write about the types of sets that can be used for the other training zones.