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Distance Swimming Strategy: A Few Options To Consider By Annika Hobson, Swimming World College Intern Racing to get your hand on the wall first can come down to a hundredth of a second, even in distance races. Swimming distance races requires some strategy to execute a successful race. To ensure a s...

Meet Warmup: A Step-by-Step Process to Get Ready to Race Once swimmers are no longer considered age-group or club swimmers, that means they are usually on their own when it comes time to warming up at meets. Without the guidance of their coach telling them exactly what to do, swimmers sometimes feel...

Inge de Bruijn's 53.80sec World Record over 100m freestyle in Sheffield 20 years ago to the week marked the fifth of five world records she clocked in 8 days and 6 in 14 days. If her pace, including two global standards in half an hour this day, May 26, was unexpected at the time, so too was the Dut...

By Devin Javens, Swimming World College Intern. Diving into the pool to warm up can be something swimmers dread. The simple thought taking those first strokes of warm up despite your sore, aching muscles can be less than pleasant. But come race day, warming up is the perfect thing to get your mind a...

The 200 Freestyle: Where Distance Meets Sprint By Annika Hobson, Swimming World College Intern The 200 freestyle, where distance swimmers meet sprinters, is one of the hardest events in competitive swimming. Whether you are racing the 200 freestyle in short course yards or meters, or long course met...

The Importance of Test Sets: How They Serve As a Barometer (Examples Included) By Annika Hobson In a sport that revolves around times, the implementation of test sets during practice are a great way to gauge where a swimmer is within their season. Test sets are challenging, but highly rewarding. Dif...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is a set of broken 200 breaststrokes. Mixing in drill and fins work, this short is designed to get your swimmers up and moving. Take a look at the set and the description that follows below: 2-4 Rounds: 8 x 25 swim w/ fins all out on :30 ....

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week! This week’s set is a short set that mixes together pace and resistance work with parachutes. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 6 Rounds: 100 w/ parachute, remove parachute and rest :20 50 at pace 50 easy, rest ~:30-:45 The...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week! This week’s set is a distance based aerobic set that mixes in some 500 pace work. Take a look at the set and the description below. 3 Rounds:     500 fast on 6:30     3 x 100 descend to 500 pace on 1:30     100 easy between rounds The set begins wi...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a butterfly pace set that can work as you transition back into long course training. 3 Rounds: 4 x 50 fly (odd: drill, even: fast kick) on :50 300 as 50 free/50 smooth fly on 4:30 3 x 100 as 50 free,...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is distance threshold set that is in many ways an opportunity for your athletes to get up and go. Take a look at the set below and the explanation that follows: 2 Rounds: 200 swim at threshold pace on 3:00 6 x 100 swims descend 1-3 to th.....

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a butterfly pace set that is written for long course but can easily be done in a short course pool as well: 2 Rounds: 3 x 100 butterfly as dr/sw by 50 w/ fins on 1:30 4 x 50 as 25 fly/25 fr desc 1-4 on ...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a 3600 yard distance set that shifts between tight interval aerobic work and holding pace: 900 cruise on 11:15 3x300 descend to mile pace on 4:00 600 cruise on 7:30 3x200 descend to 1000 pace on 2:40...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a sprint and pace set. X # of Rounds: 12 x 25 w/ snorkel and :05 rest      1-3: front sculling      4-6: underwater recovery      7-9: straight arm free      10-12: fast breakout/fast finish 3 x 50 w/ f...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a sprint set with a lot of speed off the blocks. The set is a 4000 yard distance set that has plenty of pace work mixed in. The longer swims should be active recovery on intervals that give swimmers a m...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is a short aerobic set designed for young or beginning age group swimmers. This set emphasizes a strong last 25 while also incorporating the fundamentals of intervals, rest, and pacing. Take a look at the set below: 8 x 125 as 100 focus on...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a speed and pace set perfect for getting used to long course pacing. The set has a high volume of quality swimming, and ends each round with bursts of speed and faster than pace sprinting. With each rou...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a distance based pace set. Each round starts with 3 x 250 of kick/swim at an aerobic level, and is followed by 3 x 150’s that work through varying amounts of pace depending on the round. Each round of 3...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a breaststroke set that starts with drill and build work and progresses into pace. The drill and build work should help swimmers set up their timing and stroke before getting into more straightforward p...