swimming

Download Our Free Sports Training Reports:

Training for Speed Power and Strength - Free Report Training for Distance Running The Nine Key Elements of Fitness - Free report Coaching Young Athletes - Free report

Enter your email address below: (As a bonus, we'll start sending you our free weekly newsletter, Sports Performance Bulletin.)

Email:

 

swimming

Improve your swimming training or swimming coaching with tips from these articles, which are here to help every angle of your swimming technique… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.

We'll pay you to ask questions

Got a question about sport? We'll pay you to ask it, and pay more to answer others' questions!

David Walliam's Endurance Swim Coach Reveals All

Endurance Training and Mental Toughness for Long Distance Swimming

Strength Training for Endurance Athletes

Endurance Strength Training - Optimising muscle mass

Strength Training Program Part 1: Competition Preparation

The best Weight Training Exercises to prepare for competition

Children participating in swimming training exhibit increased oxidative stress

Oxidative stress in swimmers

Swimmers affected by body clock

Circadian rhythms affect swimming performance

Running and Swimming compared with Rowing exercise?

Power output and lean body mass – how do rowers compare with other athletes?

Sports News: Aquatic Plyometrics

The Benefits of Aquatic Plyometrics

how to train triathlon

How To Train For A Triathlon : Your complete strength and conditioning programme

triathlon swim

Triathlon Swim: Swim slower for faster triathlon times

sports psychology article

Sports psychology article: Beset by 'Olympic phobia' and lacking in focus and toughness: a sport psychologist's damning verdict on the underperforming GB swim team

Triathlon Swimming Techniques

Triathlon swimming techniques - Drafting for triathlon swimmers

How Good is the 'Bod Pod'?

Body Composition - Fat Measurement: How Good is the 'Bod Pod'?

Swimming technique: stroke training to improve swimming times

Swimming Training: An overview of the basics of technique for all strokes and specific training needs

The psychology of swimming: how swimmers approach training and competition

The importance of paying attention in sport

Swimming training: why high-intensity training is more productive for swimmers than high-volume training

Traditional high-volume model of training will NOToptimise performance

Strength training: gym exercises to improve swimming performance

Swimmers need to follow a programme of exercises that replicate their actions in the water as closely as possible.

Nutritional supplements: your nutritional strategy should be planned in detail as part of your overall training programme

Look, listen and think before you take supplements

Post workout burn

Post Workout Burn: After you've finished a workout, your body is not finished working.

Swimmers - Is fatter faster?

Swimmers - Is Fatter Faster?

eating disorder athletes

Eating Disorder Athletes

veronique billat | exercise research:

Veronique Billat - Exercise Research

swimming workouts | swimming strength training

Swimming workouts & swimming strength training

Exercise-induced diarrhoea

Exercise-induced Diarrhoea

Motivation

Motivation: Here's how to design a self-determined training programme that will drive you to new heights

swimming techniques | swimming training

Swimming Techniques - Training: Although super-high training volumes are the rule rather than the exception for swimmers, there' s solid evidence that these heavy loads may be counter-productive.

Lactate threshold: 2-2 t-20

Lactate Threshold: 2-2 T-20: Since I first started attaching a fairly specific intensity to lactate-threshold workouts about 10 years ago, the whole idea of threshold training seems to have gained in popularity.

Ginseng

Ginseng, which has been used as a tonic and restorative for over 5000 years in China, is one of the most popular new nutritional supplements for athletes, but research into ginseng's effects on athletic performance has yielded ambiguous results.

Blood cholesterol levels

Blood Cholesterol Levels: Swimming sometimes gets a bad rap. Although the sport provides a fine cardiovascular workout and bolsters overall aerobic capacity, some studies have shown that regular swimming doesn't reduce - and may even increase - body fatness. Also, the effect of swimming on blood-cholesterol levels has been uncertain.

Endorphins

Endorphins: Weight trainers miss out on the "runner's high"

Training | recovery 1

How a spoonful of sugar helps keep your muscle protein from going down

Training | recovery 2

How a spoonful of sugar helps keep your muscle protein from going down

Sequencing in Training 1

Sequencing In Training 1: Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness

Sequencing in Training 2

Sequencing In Training 2: Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness

Time-splitting and race results

Time-splitting And Race Results: If it makes sense to run the second half faster than the first, then why do the Kenyans
go out so fast?

tapering | the importance of tapering

TApering: What exactly happens inside your body when you taper - and why you should do it more often

Genetics and Performance

Genetics And Performance: Now science is getting to the long and the short of how genes influence performance

Interval Training 1

Interval Training 1: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts

Interval Training 2

Interval Training 2: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts

Deep water running

Deep Water Running: When your training should land you in deep water

Menstruation & exercise

Why 'the curse' is often lifted for female athletes

Tapering for competition 1

Tapering For Competition 1: Why fast, exponential decay beats step reduction when preparing for a peak performance

Longevity

Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?

Marathon carbohydrates

Marathon Carbohydrates: Which works best before and during a marathon: carbs in liquid or solid form?

MCTs

Why MCTs alone don't work. It's important to bear in mind that the MCTs had to be ADDED to carbohydrate in order to shore up performance; the MCT-only drink produced terrible results.

Improving performance

If you want to improve your performance times, turn up the intensity and turn down the volume.

Stress fracture

Stress Fracture: One in ten of all sports injuries is a stress fracture. Here's how to break the pattern..

Creatine Effects

Creatine Effects: A man who is showing athletes how to use advances in sports nutrition to produce dramatic improvements in their performances.

Exercise | pregnancy

Exercise | Pregnancy: Is it safe to exercise when you're pregnant? Here's what science has to say

freestyle swimming techniques

Freestyle swimming techniques: Only the development of swimming flumes in the 1970s allowed tests to be performed which compared to those being carried out on such activities as cycling and running.

Hand paddles

Hand Paddles: Considerable attention has been paid to the possible advantages of using hand paddles during training.

Swim-benches

Swim-benches: Another mechanical ergogenic aid to training is the swim-bench.

Mood states

Mood States: High-level college swimmers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the States were studied for a research project published in 1991.

Conditioning

Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.

Distance running & testosterone

Distance Running & Testosterone: Can distance running determine the sex of your children

swimming pools medical hazards

A quick look at the medical hazards of swimming in pools.

Glycaemic index

Glycaemic Index: Things mother forgot to tell you about the glycaemic index of your food - and how it influences your training

Personal best training program

Personal Best Training Program: Moderate starts, consistent pacing, and negative splits can carry you to new PBs.

muscle building

Muscle building: Squats, leg press or knee extensions - which exercise is best for the quads?

overtraining symptom | rest

All work and no play makes Jack an underperforming athlete.

fitness testing | critical swim speed

Critical Swim Speed: This reliable test of aerobic capacity is non-invasive and easy to do.

rugby league training | strength | power

Rugby League Training - Strength And Power: Professional Rugby League is a demanding sport, combining raw aggression and subtle playing skill in equal measure.

Quantifying intensity

Quantifying Intensity: How to use heart rate to quantify your fitness training intensity.

Tapering and performance

Tapering And Performance: In order to be the best in whatever swimming discipline, competitive athletes and their coaches are constantly seeking new and effective methods to improve performance.

Fluid replacement

Fluid Replacement: Are sports drinks suitable for interval workouts as well?

Self-diagnosis

Self-diagnosis: Your workouts can reveal what's wrong with your health.

thoraric pain | shoulder injuries

Case study: a swimmer with left-sided thoracic pain and shoulder pain.

Running injury

Running injury: Pity the poor runner he'll have arthritis when he's older. Or will he?

Stored elastic energy

Stored Elastic Energy: Imagine the athletes' muscles are like the rubbery part of a catapult...

Cross Training Workouts

Cross Training Workouts

Female and male performance times

Female and male athletes seem to respond to training in a comparable manner. As the quantity or intensity of training increases, aerobic capacity (V02max) shoots upward, body fat tends to decrease, and performance improves, regardless of gender.

emergency training | cycling training

If you need to get into competitive shape fast, follow the example of these South African cyclists.

Physical activity

Just how good is exercise for you? Damn good. In addition to improving your fitness and giving you more energy to carry out your everyday activities, regular exercise can limit your chances of suffering from a number of deadly - and not-so-deadly - diseases.

Use it or lose it

If you want to keep well as you get older, adopt the " use it or lose it" philosophy.

Use it or lose it

If you want to keep well as you get older, adopt the " use it or lose it" philosophy.

Syndicate content

Follow the RSS for this page