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Tapering for Swimmers: You Can’t Out-Taper Poor Recovery (opens the original)
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Tapering for swimmers is often thought of as a giant eraser. You work hard over months and months, building up lots of fatigue, soreness, and training load. And then taper takes a big eraser to all the tiredness, revealing the performance you’ve worked hard to create. And in the same way that you have to “earn” a taper with lots of hard work, the way you take care of yourself before tapering can matter just as much as how you taper. A study (Bretonneau et al., 2024) with a group of elite French
A Progressive Drag Chute Set for Faster Swimming (opens the original)
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Drag chutes are one of the most versatile tools for resisted swimming. And training with a drag chute is usually treated pretty simply: But chute size is only part of the equation for how hard they are to pull. The amount of drag produced by a parachute increases much faster than swimming speed. The faster you go while swimming against one, the disproportionately more resistance the chute creates. That little nugget of info is what this set is built on. After your regularly scheduled warm-up, gr
5 Ways Swim Coaches Can Get Swimmers to Be More Process Oriented (opens the original)
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Times. Splits. Medal podiums. Qualifying standards. Meet scores. PBs. And there’s nothing wrong with wanting all of those things. Competitive swimming is… competitive, after all. But when swimmers get overly wrapped up on outcomes, training can turn into a daily true-or-false on whether they are getting closer to their goals. Encouraging swimmers to be more process-oriented doesn’t mean they care less about the big and greasy goals. It just means they stay engaged with the things that matter for
A Set for Using Resistance to Increase Stroke Length and Sprint Speed (opens the original)
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Resisted swimming is usually associated with power. Buckle in the drag chute, tether, or power tower and blow out the pool lights with all of that wattage. But resisted swimming is also a sneaky way to improve technique. Whether that’s reducing excess catch-up in your freestyle, spending less time in non-propulsive phases, or—in the case of this set–increasing stroke length–resisted swimming can be a technique correction tool, too. Here’s how swimmers can use a swim tether to boost stroke length
A Set for Fixing a Slow Upkick When Dolphin Kicking (opens the original)
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Fast dolphin kicking requires that swimmers kick down powerfully, and kick up quickly. And it’s often that “upkick” phase where swimmers’ feet get stuck in the chlorinated mud. When the upkick lags, swimmers decelerate, take longer to get back into the more propulsive downkick, and create a lot of frontal drag. And when the upkick is rocking and rolling, the feet move more evenly between kick phases, creating a smoother, more continuous, and faster kick (Atkinson et al., 2014). The goal of this
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