Wayne Goldsmith - (Author)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AiNAei8Oo&t=4s Competitive Swimming is in crisis…..UNLESS….. By Wayne Goldsmith There is no doubt that Competitive Sport around the world is in crisis. In some places...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAytQI-MdvI The Pool Pathway By Wayne Goldsmith Every national swimming association around the world has some sort of swimmer development pathway - what I call the pool...

A Morning with the Master: On Deck with Coach Bill Sweetenham By Wayne Goldsmith I’ve known Coach Bill Sweetenham for a long time. He’s been one of the strongest and most positive influences on my lif...

By Wayne Goldsmith. 20 x 100 on 1:45 16 x 200 on 2:30 40 x 50 on 1:00 6 x 400 on 6:15 Anyone who's had any involvement with the sport of swimming would be familiar with the concept of a Main Set. Thos...

By Wayne Goldsmith. The most important question any swimming coach seeking coaching success can ask, is "Why Do I Coach"? When I work with swimming coaches around the world, I usually start my "coach-...

By Wayne Goldsmith. It's easy to spot a good coach - energy, passion, enthusiasm, dedication, connection with their swimmers, knowledge...and it's just as easy to identify terrible coaches. https://ww...

By Wayne Goldsmith. There are coaches. And there are good coaches. Coaches who do things right - and do the right things - the things that will help the swimmers and the teams they coach to be all the...

By Wayne Goldsmith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87MG5dGPps&t=1s Coach Development: How Coaches Learn. By Wayne Goldsmith It's pretty simple logic. Swimmers want to get better at what they do. The ...

What is Coaching? By Wayne Goldsmith What is Coaching? Coaching is the art of inspiring change through emotional connection. What is Coaching? Coaching is helping swimmers to dream - to dream larger t...

Swimming Stress: Stop Worrying - Keep Swimming. By Wayne Goldsmith One of the most common questions I get asked by swimmers, coaches and parents is how to deal with pre-race nervousness: what I call S...

The Swimming Zone. By Wayne Goldsmith You’re traveling through another swimming dimension—a dimension not only of muscles and tendons, but of mind...a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are...

Swimming Technique vs Swimming Style By Wayne Goldsmith Imagine you’ve never seen anyone swim before. You’ve gone to the beach and you've seen dolphins play in the waves. You’ve visited an aquarium an...

By Wayne Goldsmith. You've trained for weeks - months - maybe even years for this Meet. Everything's ready. Diet - perfect. Training - haven't missed a workout for six months. Coach is happy - you're ...

By Wayne Goldsmith Coaching Philosophy is at the very heart of everything a coach thinks, says and does. It's their core coaching framework - the set of values, behaviours and standards that a coach b...

By Wayne Goldsmith Kicking Practice: It's Time to Let Go. Every competitive swimmer, triathlete, Masters swimmer and fitness swimmer does some kind of kick set in their practices. There's sprint kic...

By Wayne Goldsmith. It is now the era of Swimming Mind. The past 100 years have been largely been the era of the swimming body - with coaches, swimmers, sports scientists and researchers all strongly ...

By Wayne Goldsmith Introduction: Over the past year, I've had numerous pool side conversations, attended over 50 hours of lectures and workshops at major swimming conventions in the US, Australia and ...

By Wayne Goldsmith Want to challenge yourself? Want to face and overcome the toughest conditions nature can throw at you? Want to learn how to get up and race fast when everyone else is ducking for co...

10 Essential Tips To Help You Win A College Swimming Scholarship By Wayne Goldsmith As the NCAA swimming championship season heats up, swimmers all over the U.S. and across the world are thinking "Wow...

5 Practical Ways to Develop a Killer Instinct By Wayne Goldsmith It's not that fashionable to talk about having a "Killer Instinct". It's far more popular and correct talk about "sticking to your proc...