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Fun and Effective Kickboard Drills to Enhance Your Swimming Kickboard exercises are a fun way to improve your swimming skills, as well as your strength and endurance in the water as a whole. At first glance, swimmers may get the impression that the only way to use kickboards is for traditional kick ...

By Jennifer Yoo, Swimming World College Intern. The only people who can truly understand the ins and outs of a sport are the people directly involved. Many people only associate swimming with the Olympics yet don’t see the daily struggles and satisfying moments that swimmers share with their team an...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a ladder kick set that challenges swimmers with increasing repeats of best average 50’s kick. The set works up to 6 x 50’s best average kick, with varying distances of kick/swim in between to keep your ...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a ladder kick set that will really test your kick endurance.      4 x 200 as 25 under/75 smooth swim/75 strong kick/25 under      4 x 150 as 50 smooth swim/100 best average kick      4 x 100 as 25 under...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a simple kick set that is a great way to end a practice. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 40 x 25 kick on :25 → every 5th rest on the wall This is a simple set of 40 x 25.....

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a kick set with kick/swim and fast underwater work on descending intervals. The focus should be more sustained effort on the 50’s, 100’s, and 200’s, while the 25’s are more short bursts of all out speed...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a big kick for early in your season for building leg endurance. We’ve all heard the expression “the legs feed the beast,” and this is a great set for making sure your beast doesn’t get hungry! Moving th...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a kick/swim set focusing on underwaters. As you can see below, the underwaters on the swims in this set are descending. Keep that as the main focus and make anything on top of the water (i.e. - any swim...