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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....

The Hardest Part of Coaching Starts After Practice Ends. Part I of a Three-Part Series on the Future of Swim Coaching Software. In this first article, we look at why more coaches are rethinking the patchwork of tools they use every day.  “I don’t want to be stuck behind a computer doing something th...

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...

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 ...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a sprint set designed for the long course pool. The set features three rounds, each of which totals 1,000 meters. By the end of the set swimmers should be going all-out, with each of the final 6 x 50’s ...

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 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! 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: 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 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 ....

Butterfly workouts have a tendency to scare age groupers because, well, it's butterfly. Perhaps the perfect way to quell their worries is under the veil of 25s. This week's swim training set works varying distances of butterfly mixed with fast freestyle. There's a variety of ways to do this set, but...

This week's Swim Training Set Of The Week offers a whopping 31 200s to work on long specialty swimming. For "fun," prescribe this practice on the 31st of the month to end the month's training with a bang. Here's the set: 10x 1 x 200 specialty #1 (desc. 1-5; 6-10) @ 3:00 1 x 200 specialty #2 (desc. 1...

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....

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...

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 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...

Looking for a way to bolster your mid-distance and sprint freestyle groups? The head coach of the University of Cincinnati, Mandy Commons-DiSalle, uses a deceptively challenging set of 50s to get the most out of her mid-sprint group. The set includes a grand total of 32 50s all out, with intervals g...

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...