How Long-Term Athlete Development works in practice for Swimming Canada

SWIMMING ARTICLES How Long-Term Athlete Development works in practice for Swimming Canada By John Atkinson High Performance Director/National Coach Swimming Canada & Suzanne Paulins Senior Manager, Domestic Operations, Swimming Canada Swimming Canada works to...

Building a winning mentality

SWIMMING ARTICLES Building a winning mentalityInterview with Graham Hill, Head Coach of Swimming South Africa & Coaches Committee ChairmanGraham Hill, Chairman of the FINA Coaches Committee, has a coaching experience that spans more than 36 years, out of which the...

Engaged technical training for Swimming

SWIMMING ARTICLES Engaged technical training for SwimmingBy Miguel Angel Lopez Alvarado, Head Coach of Thanyapura, FINA Training CenterIntroductionTraining for swimming has evolved greatly in the XXI century from the physiologically taxing, “more is better” work...

Quality vs Quantity, Periodisation of Training Volume with Peter Andrew

SWIMMING ARTICLES Quality vs Quantity, Periodisation of Training Volume One of the biggest young stars from USA is Michael Andrew, who in 2015 started by winning the 50m backstroke, Silver medal at the 50, freestyle and 50m butterfly at the Junior World Championship...

Video Analysis of Underwater Kick

SWIMMING ARTICLES Video Analysis of Underwater Kick By Genadijus Sokolovas, Ph.D., Global Sport Technology Inc, FINA Expert Introduction Underwater kicking is the fastest swimming stroke. Elite level male sprinters can swim the first 15 m of the race in about 5 sec....

Bob Bowman opened the Swimming Coaches’ Golden Clinic

SWIMMING ARTICLES Bob Bowman, the coaching genius behind phenomenal USA swimmer Michael Phelps, opened the Swimming Coaches’ Golden Clinic in Windsor with his insights and specific training drills. Bowman highlighted his Christmas-New Year training of 2002-03,...