Coaches Education

This week Fitter and Faster will have more FREE LIVE broadcasts!  Below is the FFT Live schedule or on this page you can read about and sign up for ALL of this week's live broadcasts in one place. (You can also bookmark the page FitterAndFaster.com/LIVE  to always stay up-to-date on upcomi...

Coaching A variety of factors and traits determine if an individual is a superb coach, somewhere in the middle or not very good at the profession. In this article, Wayne Goldsmith examines some of the characteristics that define an individual as a high-quality coach. The piece is heavy on being a mo...

PRESENTING A PLAN TO GET YOUR POOL OPEN AND YOUR TEAM BACK IN THE WATER Date & Time: Monday May 25, 2020 @ 4:00 pm EST Suggested Audience: Team board members, Coaches, Facility Directors, Aquatics Directors and everyone else interested in helping to get swimmers back in the water. Register now Thro...

Swimmers and coaches alike know that it takes several factors to help a swimmer be successful and achieve his/her goals. One crucial factor that may be a given but under-addressed is the parental role in a swimmer’s achievement. While the swim parent and coach can make a great support team, they als...

Top 20 Tips For Coaches Applying For Leadership Roles - from Don Talbot and Bill Sweetenham  When Bill Met Don ... several years ago, John Atkinson, now the performance head of Swimming Canada, posed a question to leading figures in the swim coaching community at a gathering of mentor minds. It...

While there are some people that still believe that swim teams will just ‘go back to normal’ swim practices and others that feel we shouldn’t swim until we have a vaccine, most can clearly agree that we will need to make some changes in the way we run swim practices in 2020.  The industry’s process ...

The Excellent Swim Coach Swimming is very much a sport of observation. Swimmers observe others' strokes underwater during practice and have a lot of time on deck during meets to watch the coach-swimmer dynamics surrounding us. I had 12 swim coaches in my 18 years of swimming. It's fun to go back and...

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcT93A_6s4E&t=7s So how do you identify terrible coaches? Terrible coaches "Te...

Wayne Goldsmith Can’t Coach In The Pool? Can’t Coach In The Gym? Coronavirus-crunched on all sides? Coaches, ask not what you can't do but what you CAN do, writes Wayne Goldsmith, exclusively for Swimming World. One thing I’ve learned about coaches is – they’re always – ALWAYS – thinking a...

The Power Of Napping & 'Sleepability' Are The Focus Of New Loughborough Research  Just done another run and workout in the home gym, the flume or paddling pool in the backyard? Endured hours of home-schooling (as parent or child) while getting your own job done? Perhaps you've walked the dog, d...

Can we safely swim with 6 people in a lane? We hear a lot about the rules of running a gym with social distancing.  There is plenty of support about managing our pool bathroom, or how to navigate at <50% capacity for a business.  But as swim coaches the final key is to understand how to keep swimmer...

This week Fitter and Faster will have more FREE LIVE broadcasts!  Below is the FFT Live schedule or on this page you can read about and sign up for ALL of this week's live broadcasts in one place. (You can also bookmark the page FitterAndFaster.com/LIVE  to always stay up-to-date on upcomin...

By Wayne Goldsmith (On Coaching Legends) Through the years, Wayne Goldsmith has had the opportunity to attend and speak at some of the world's most prestigious and important swimming coaching conferences, including The Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association (ASCTA) Convention, the Amer...

This article on swimming parents by Wayne Goldsmith originally ran a few years ago, but the heart of the piece remains true and unchanged. Take a few minutes to read the insights below and reflect on what the author is saying. It could be helpful in generating harmony between key parties in a swimme...

This week Fitter and Faster will have more FREE LIVE broadcasts!  Below is the FFT Live schedule or on this page you can read about and sign up for ALL of this week's live broadcasts in one place. (You can also bookmark the page FitterAndFaster.com/LIVE  to always stay up-to-date on upcomin...

Coaches Jon Rudd, Fred Vergnoux and Walter Bolognani today spoke of their hopes and fears for swimmers, fellow mentors and clubs as they navigate the storm of coronavirus lockdown and the financial impact of the global economic recession set to affect hundreds of millions worldwide. In the course of...

The rotation can be tricky in the backstroke and freestyle. Although the coach wants the swimmer to rotate more, the stiff swimmer will have more restrictions to make it happen. Here are three movements that will aid and mobilize the thoracic spine for an improved rotation. For all of the follow...

This week Fitter and Faster will have 11 new FREE LIVE broadcasts featuring an Olympic Hall of Famer, many multiple Olympic medalists, and coaches!  Below is a list of the FFT Live schedule for this coming week! (You can also bookmark the page FitterAndFaster.com/LIVE  to always stay up-to...

The ASCA World Clinic that was supposed to be held from September 8 - 13 in Orlando this year has been cancelled. The decision was announced via Facebook Live from the American Swimming Coaches Association and the hotel where the clinic was due to take place in Orlando was notified. Due to the coron...

1980 Olympic Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games By Tom Caraccioli and Jerry Caraccioli With a thorough exploration of the political climate of the time and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, this book describes the repercussions of Jimmy Carter’s American boycott of the...