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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....

Join the Early Access List: Breakthrough Innovation set for mid-June Launch FINIS has spent more than 30 years rethinking how swimmers train, feel the water and use equipment to improve. From the Monofin and Original Swimmer’s Snorkel to Tempo Trainer, Zoomers, Smart Goggles and Manta Paddles, Foun....

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...

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 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! 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 intense test set that is great for advanced high school, club, or college teams. This set emphasizes consistency over 20 x 100’s, trying to hold the fastest average possible with no easy swimming in-between. Take a look at the set be...

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! This week’s set is an aerobic IM set meant to work on consistent stroke technique across all four strokes. This is a great set to use with your mid-distance or stroke group in club, high school, or college swimming! Take a look below and see the set and r...

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,...

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...

Swimming World Training Set: Aerobic IM Progression From Swimming World's vault, this training set is an aerobic IM progression set. Running through 200s of each stroke and 200 IMs, this set challenges swimmers to control their pace moving through each stroke while also pushing them aerobically. Tak...

Welcome to the “Swim Drill of the Week” sponsored by The Fitter and Faster Swim Tour presented by Swimoutlet.com. Swimming World will be bringing you a drill, concept, or tip that you can implement with your team on a regular basis. While certain weeks may be more appropriate for specific levels o....

Swim Training: This Demanding IM Set Will Provide a Test Sometimes, there's nothing better than a stout, long IM set on a Saturday morning. This training set offers one large set split into four "mini sets" that can really challenge tough IMers. It combines elements from 400 IMs and 200 IMs to hard ...

Welcome to the “Swim Drill of the Week” sponsored by The Fitter and Faster Swim Tour presented by Swimoutlet.com. Swimming World will be bringing you a drill, concept, or tip that you can implement with your team on a regular basis. While certain weeks may be more appropriate for specific levels of ...

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...

This is the first edition of Swimming World’s Swim Training Set of the Week features a demanding distance free ladder set. The beauty of this set is that it offers coaches flexibility with the primary focus. The workout can be done as a 500 or 1650 pace set (or both). It’s a grueling, fast-paced cha...

This week's Swim Training Set Of The Week takes a look at a great specialty workout that works 100 speed and 200 pacing. The entire set, all four rounds, is specialty one (swimmer's best stroke). It's a great set that can accomplish a lot for the swimmer. Take a look: 4x 3 x 100 stroke @ best time +...

A Discussion On Swim Training: Is It An Art or Science? Like the rest of life, the answer to the above question is complicated. Dudley Duncan’s recent The Art of Swimming is just the latest piece of aquatic literature to label swim coaching as “art.” “After how many years, it’s still art in people’s...