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A Better Way to Teach Swimming Balance and Body Position For the last 85 years, swim training has had plenty of tools to build fitness. The harder part has always been teaching what creates speed in the first place: body line, balance, and alignment that hold up under fatigue. Dual Boards are built....

Training Sets and Tips: Building Breaststroke Endurance As Swimming World continues to bring a variety of training sets to its readership, a focus is placed on this archived piece on the breaststroke. This breaststroke endurance set is designed to work on driving forward in the stroke and finishing ...

Swimming World Training Set: A 200 Freestyle-Focused Set This week's Training Set Of The Week features a three round 200 free set that includes fast 100 and 200 repeats and a broken 200. Take a look: 3 Times Through 300 free setup   3:45/4:00/4:15 3 x 100 free        1:05/1:10/1:15 :30 rest 200 free...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is an middle distance based aerobic set with a little bit of pace work mixed in. Take a look at the set and it’s description below: 4 Rounds: 2 x 200’s hold time on #2 on 2:30 3 x 50’s dec 1-3, number 3 is 200 pace on 1:00 1 x 50 easy o...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a set of broken swims that you can use for any stroke group. Take a look at the set and how you can incorporate it with your team: 2 Rounds: 8 x 25 all out swim/kick by 25 w/ fins on :20 100 as 25 dri.....

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set build ups to 200 pace work for breaststroke.   2 Rounds:     2 x 100 (scull/k/dr/sw), option for snorkel     200 breast (odd length: double pull outs, even: dps)     5 x 50 (odd: desc 1-3 to pace, even: dr...

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 CommitSwimming.com! This week’s set is a warm-up for your sprinters to work on waking them up and getting them tuned into their body position, sprint stroke, and tempo. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 300 as 50 f...

Consider This Training Set: Developing 200 Fly Pace (From the Archive) We turn to the Swimming World vault for a look at a training set that may be utilzied. This set is a 200 fly endurance set that builds to 200 pace. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 4 x 75’s as 50 fly...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by CommitSwimming.com! This week’s set is a long course IM IM set works on controlling the pace of each stroke with efficient transitions. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 3 x 200 IM as: #1 - drill/swim by 25 #2 - s....

Training Set: IM Or Main Stroke Endurance Periodically, Swimming World will bring its readers a training set they can try to incorporate in their pool work. This set is designed to help develop endurance for your prime stroke and IM athletes: 2 Rounds: 2 x 225’s as 50 stroke/25 free on 3:10 4 x 12.....

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is a distance based aerobic freestyle and kick set. Great for high school swimmers and above, this set emphasizes consistent paced swims and descending kicks to get the legs moving. Take a look at the set below: 5 x 300 swim on :30 SR 8 x....

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 an aerobic backstroke set that focuses on pacing and underwater details. Take a look at the set below and the explanation that follows: 5 x 100 backstroke on 1:30 4 x 50 kick/drill on 1:00 4 x 100 backstroke on 1:30 4 x 50 kick/drill...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is a quick warm-up or pre-set routine to get all of your strokes ready for the rest of workout. Take a look at the set and the description below: 10 x 75’s on :15 SR as: 75 fly kick 50 fly/25 back 25 fly/50 back 75 back kick 50 back/2...

By Kristy Kinzer, Swimming World College Intern. Swim training programs for colleges greatly vary between divisions, conferences, and coaches. Several yield positive results, yet many coaches, new and experienced alike, are left scratching their heads about which methods to incorporate and which to ...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set has two examples of broken swims for middle distance swimmers that emphasize developing a strong finish to your race. Take a look at the set and the description that follows: Broken 500 175 + 100 + 100 + 50 + 50 + 25 Rest = :20 for 175,...

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Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a high intensity kicking set. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 4 x 100’s kick last 25 fast on 1:50 4 x 25’s kick all out on :45 3 x 100’s kick negative split on 1:50 4 x...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is lactate tolerance set from the blocks that should wipe out your athletes just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 6 Rounds: 75 all out + 75 ez; all on 4:00 50 all out + .....