Consistency is a habit and consistency is a skill. Swimmers who are consistent in training will not only perform better, they’re more...

Everyone can agree that the more consistently a swimmer trains at a high level, the better the training outcomes, and the more likely the...

From the very beginning, equipment has been used in swimming training. While the quality and variety of training equipment has certainly...

Janet Evans swam ugly. Many coaches were critical of her unorthodox recoveries, her high breathing action, and her bouncy rhythm. Janet...

She’s a racer. It’s a compliment thrown around by swimmers to describe someone who steps up on the blocks and knows how to throw down. ...

As discussed in Part I, pre-loading can be an effective strategy to create novel stimuli while also accomplishing multiple training tasks....

When a swimmer has been exposed to a particular type of training, that type of training loses it ‘training potential’. In short, the...

The impact of slow losses in critical training components was discussed previously in Bleeding to Death. I would like to shift the...

As discussed in PART I, the effects of training can operate at divergent time scales, with the positive and negative impacts of a given...

One of the fundamental concepts of swimming training is the critical importance of developing a ‘base’. As the name implies, a great base...