Coaches Education

5 Things Coaches Should Know About Recruiting in a Virtual World A swarm of butterflies flutters through your stomach and your heart races. You tap on your spiral notebook and scan your checklist one last time. Why are you so nervous? You’ve done your research and more importantly, no one can see yo...

10 Swimming Coaching Approaches That Don't Make Sense Originally posted August 12, 2015 Like all sports and all industries, swimming has its fair share of myths, routines, habits, practices and rituals which everyone does...but that doesn't necessarily make them right. Swimming coaching can be a gam...

So you had a bad race or two. Or three. Or four. Or maybe even a lot more. You can cry, you can mope, you can let one bad race affect the rest of the meet or the rest of your season. Or you can learn how to bounce back from a bad race to make yourself a more successful swimmer. Here are four steps t...

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. Those combinations of repeats and rest times (intervals) that are the focus - the emphasis of all swimmi...

Detraining is a natural physiological phenomenon that plays out in the body when an athlete ceases regular training. Any swimmer who has ever followed an intense season with a 2-3-week break and then returned to face the music will know what 'what's gained in three weeks is lost in a day' feels like...

Swim Training: How Much Should We Be Doing? By Wayne Goldsmith Introduction: I've had numerous poolside conversations, attended over 50 hours of lectures and workshops at major swimming conventions in the U.S., Australia and Great Britain, enjoyed many, many long phone calls and SKYPE calls, had cou...

Colorado Time Systems, a PlayCore company, is pleased to announce a Dolphin Wireless Stopwatch Rental Program for swim meets.  The program is designed to help customers run swim meets (virtual or not) as their teams get back into the water. “We are excited about this program,” said Rick Con...

Wayne Goldsmith: How To Handle The World's Dumbest Swimming Workout How many articles, blog posts, magazine features and text books have you read about swimming workouts? How many web articles have you seen that start with something like "The 10 best speed workouts" or "The best ever distance workou...

5 Swim Sets You Have to Try Before You Die; Tell Us Your Favorite By Wayne Goldsmith Swim sets are like burgers. There's a lot of them in the world: some are great, some are awful and some are just plain ordinary burgers. Here are 5 Swim Sets You Have to Try Before You Die. A great swim set has to i...

CANBY, OR - S.R.Smith has enhanced its commercial product line with an all new backstroke starting system for both competition and training, as well as, updating its XL Capacity Lane Line Reel.  S.R.Smith’s FINA compliant Backstroke Start System is designed to be added to virtual any starting block ...

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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...