Coaches Education

Special Sets: The Training of United States Olympian and Distance Ace Luke Whitlock Forty six of the more than 1000-plus pool swimmers who competed at Olympic Trials in Indianapolis represented the United States at the Olympic Games in Paris. Among them was Luke Whitlock, a Florida freshman, from No...

Swim Like A. Fish: 3 Cues to Produce Great Crossover Turns During their competitive days at the University of Georgia, Abbie Fish was an NCAA qualifier and Southeastern Conference (SEC) finalist on multiple occasions. These days, Fish operates Swim Like A. Fish, where their coaching tips, videos and...

A Look and Breakdown Of the Legendary 100 x 100s Set Of Mike Bruner About eight months before he set a world record in the 200-meter butterfly (1:59.23) and won a second gold medal in the 800 freestyle relay at the 1976 Olympics, Mike Bruner completed an aquatic first - swimming 10,000 yards in unde...

Tracking Food: Where My Protein Comes From - Source and Location Over the summer, I began seriously tracking the food I eat. As my junior year of college concluded, I realized  my athletic career was rapidly approaching its inevitable end. With that realization came a determination to get serious ab...

Special Sets: The Work of Fast-Rising Teen Stella Canoles of Orinda Aquatics (Sample Workouts Included) By MICHAEL J. STOTT Stella Canoles: Meet “TR” (The Rocket) Every coach treasures a special talent. Orinda Aquatics coach Don Heidary has one in Stella Canoles, a freestyle/butterfly/IM specialist ...

How They Train: Texas A&M Early-Season Sets By MICHAEL J. STOTT In this edition of How They Train, Swimming World takes a look at some of the workouts put together at Texas A&M. The piece is complemented by commentary from several of the program's top performers, who weigh in on how the program look...

How Often Should You Be Swimming Fast? It's a New World On September 26, five-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown blasted a new short course meters 100 backstroke world record. Swimming a 54.56, McKeown undercut the previous record by a significant three tenths of a second. The performance came jus...

Kyle Millis' Stroke by Stroke: How to Swim Backstroke Like Ryan Murphy Down the road, the day will arrive when Ryan Murphy is inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. An Olympic and world champion on multiple occasions, the former Cal-Berkeley Bear emerged as a future star during his t...

Training Sets From the Past: The Stunning Work of 17-Year-Old Ian Thorpe Next week will mark the 24th anniversary of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where Ian Thorpe dazzled on home soil. So, it seemed like an appropriate time to revisit some of the training sets Thorpe endured as a teenager on th...

The 'Why' In Coaching: The Importance Of Providing An Explanation Three minutes into the coach’s monologue on butterfly technique, ninth grader Sam raised his hand and asked, "why?’" “I thought I was a good coach,” says his Middle Atlantic mentor. “I had state-championship teams, high school All-Ame...

“As the team was wrapping up a meeting in the University of California, Berkeley’s High Performance Center for Athletics, my coach called me to the front of the room.  "My heart was pounding in my chest as I walked to stand next to him. Once I met his gaze, I slowly turned around. This was the first...

By Olivia McKelvey, Swimming World College Intern. When it comes to nutrition, swimmers - like any other athletes - tend to take on the "body is my temple approach." Meaning that the elite of the elite preach new health fads, supplements, and other information about nutrition that can lead them to t...

How Science Can Be Used to Promote Faster Swimming; Competitive Swimming Needs Radical Change By Rod Havriluk If a swimmer was asked about his/her: Index of Coordination (quantifies arm coordination), Active drag coefficient (quantifies technique), Intracycle velocity variations (identifies general ...

How Training Has Changed Since the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic Four years removed from the worldwide shutdown due to COVID-19, aquatics has re-established a rhythm of training and championships. Paris beckons the world for a second Olympics since, and coaches have resumed mentoring their charges ...

Sample Sets: A Look at the Work Of NAG Record-Breaker Luka Mijatovic and Rising Talent Tim Wu From the Archive: With Luka Mijatovic breaking the 15-16 NAG record of Larsen Jensen in the 400-meter freestyle at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships, Swimming World offers this look at Mijatovic's traini...

Swim Training for 50s: A Look at Different Approaches to Sprinting Earlier in his career, the high school coach sought the secret to speed—especially fast 50s. As a high schooler, he had a teammate ultimately go a 22.4 50 free (nation’s third fastest in 1960). Later on he watched Katie Ledecky, at a...

ASCA Board Sends Letter to USA Swimming with Recommendations for Future This week, the Board of Directors of the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) sent a letter to USA Swimming concerning expectations for the next quad, which will lead up to a home Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The letter...

Coaches Corner: The Importance of Underwater Kicking; Developing Stability During the recently concluded Olympic Games in Paris, multiple performances stood out inside La Defense Arena. But the nine-day competition will certainly be remembered for what Frenchman Leon Marchand delivered in front of a...

The Cal Bears Culture Has a Powerful Influence - Past and Present; Dave Durden Guiding a Family When you’ve been a battle-tested Marine, an assistant on uber-successful club and college championship teams and confidant to Olympians, you know something about winning. Jack Roach has been all of those ...

How They Train: The Workouts of Cavalier Aquatics' Sara Czirjak (5 Practice Sets Included) With the Olympic buzz still in the air, swim club personnel persevere in polishing swimmer skills while college coaches continue the unending process of targeting potential recruits. One such prospect is Sara ...