Swimming
Swimming specific training
The following Sports Coach pages provide information specific to the sport of Swimming:
- Critical Swim Speed
- Effective breathing, while swimming, is all in the balance
- Find a Coach
- How shaving can make you swim faster
- How to prepare a swimming training program
- How to get into shape for swimming
- Strength Training for swimmers
- Stroke your way to faster times
- Swimming Technique - Backstroke
- Swimming Technique - Breaststroke
- Swimming Technique - Butterfly
- Swimming Technique - Freestyle (Crawl)
- Swimming - Why high-intensity training is better than high-volume training
Developing a training programme
You will find the following pages helpful in developing your Swimming fitness training program.
Planning the training
- How to prepare your training program
- Example training program
- Performance Profiling - how to identify weaknesses in your skills
General strength development
- Circuit Training - develops strength and endurance
- Weight Training program using dumbbells
- Weight Training program using free weights and machines
- Weight Training program for sprinters - uses Olympic lifts
Developing elastic strength
- Plyometrics
- Plyometric Exercises - Arms
- Plyometric Exercises - Legs
- Plyometrics High-Intensity Exercises - Legs
- Complex Training - using weights and plyometrics exercises
General conditioning
- Developing your Core Stability - Abdominals and lower back
- Conditioning exercises for the legs
- Conditioning exercises for the lower legs
- Conditioning exercises for the upper body
Agility training
Some of these pages contain evaluation performance tests, but they also make good training sessions.
Speed development
Endurance training - cardiovascular development
- Developing your VO2 max
- Interval and continuous training
- Hill training
- Training with a heart rate monitor - Training Zones
Nutrition
- Nutrition - determining your daily requirements
- What to eat when training and competing
- Nutritional tips
- Sports Drinks
Psychology
- Sports psychology
- Relaxation techniques
- Overview of mental imagery
- Mental imagery - developing the skill