IN THIS ISSUE:<\/strong> Technique Preparation for the 2016 Olympics<\/strong> Effect of an Instructional Intervention on Swimming Technique & Performance<\/strong> Improve Your Backstroke Starts<\/strong> Diving Into Meet Warmup<\/strong> A Little Bit of Magic<\/strong> Swimming Breaststroke From the Hands Down<\/strong> Developing the \u201cBoxer\u2019s Muscle\u2019 for Swimming<\/strong> Brain Over Brawn<\/strong> The Breaststroke Turn<\/strong> Out In the Open (Water)<\/strong> Kicking Underwater To 15 Meters: Is It For Everyone?<\/strong> Race Simulation: The Key To Optimal Meet Performance<\/strong> Training Sets For Your 200 IM and Butterfly Specialists<\/strong> Swimming Technique November 2015 Issue IN THIS ISSUE: The Role of Assistant Coach by Brent Rutemiller What role does an assistant coach play in the success of a swimming team?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":160471,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[55626],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160466","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-swimming-technique-vault","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"downloadable","11":"virtual","12":"sold-individually","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n
\nThe Role of Assistant Coach<\/strong>
\nby Brent Rutemiller<\/em>
\nWhat role does an assistant coach play in the success of a swimming team?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Rod Havriluk, Ph.D<\/em>
\nWith the Olympics less than a year away, it\u2019s time to plan for optimizing performance. However, improving technique is not always part of the plan, and often for very good reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Rod Havriluk, Ph.D<\/em>
\nIn competitive swim programs, training distance is often given priority at the expense of technique instruction .<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Bryan Craig<\/em>
\nTo become better at backstroke starts we need to be more flexible through the lumbar regions of our back, as you can see we include some flexibility drills in the backstroke starts progressions here.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Sarah Lloyd<\/em>
\nThe warm-up portion of a swim meet is best de\u00ad scribed as organized chaos. It\u2019s the time when the pool churns with hundreds of swimmers, each one trying to avoid kicking someone, or being kicked.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Bryan Craig<\/em>
\nWhen I started coaching, I was mentored by Bob Gillett, the legendary coach behind much of Misty Hyman\u2019s amazing success. Bob always told me to do it my way and add a bit of the unusual to everything I do.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Bryan Craig<\/em>
\nThere are many ways to swim breaststroke . No one does it absolutely perfectly in every way, though the best do a lot of things right. I think about breaststroke in the following way. I invite you to take one thing and make it your own.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Jan Homolak<\/em>
\nIf you get mad easily and don\u2019t hold back from throwing a few punches, you might have realized that the serratus anterior is the muscle that gets tired easily. When anatomists realized its function, they decided to put \u201cbig swing muscle\u201d and \u201cboxer\u2019s muscle\u201d captions next to the original muscle name.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Jan Homolak<\/em>
\nI was more than just a competitive swimmer. I was one who always had the impulse to look for the ways to improve in the pool, which sparked my curiosity during lectures in neuroscience.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Jozsef Nagy and Dr. Janos Egressy<\/em>
\nThe goal of this article is not to describe the turn of a world-class breaststroker. The goal is to illustrate a turn that is \u2014 according to the laws of physics and our knowledge of biomechanics \u2014 quickly doable.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Lillian Nelson<\/em>
\nThe University of Tennessee is leading the way in a new trend of ditching the pool at the start of the college swim season and heading to the open water.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Delaney Lanker<\/em>
\nUnderwater kicking has become the buzz among many swimmers and coaches in the past few years. Since the turn of the century, swimmers have found that the best way to get faster in butterfly, backstroke and freestyle is to go deep.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Bryan Craig<\/em>
\nRace simulation in a training situation is just that \u2013 a simulation. How close is simulation to the real thing? It might look the same, feel the same, but the results are not even close.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Evan Dulaney<\/em>
\nSets from Cory Kephart and Chad Relframp to help train your swimmers in Butterfly and l.M.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"