This year I am working with
Carmel Swim Club in Carmel Indiana on their dryland training program. This entails
me visiting the team four times during the year, frequent calls and emails to
assist the coaches design and implement a comprehensive program to address the
development of the physical literacy of the swimmers from age eight to
eighteen. My first visit was in late August and the most recent visit this past
Monday and Tuesday. In August we planned the year in appropriate blocks based
on the competition schedule and began work on implementing the physical literacy
components with the age groupers. This is a true Long Term Athlete Development
program designed to produce swimming athletes. It will take a year to implement
the whole program and work out the bugs but under the guidance of Head Coach
Chris Plum and Head Age Group Coach Ian Murray they are well on their way. This
program builds upon what they have done before. Spending time with these
coaches, seeing their dedication and hunger to learn and innovate, it is easy
to see why they are fast emerging on the national scene as a club to be
reckoned with.
The video clips below are
from the Tuesday morning upper body session at 6:00 AM, they did some swimming
after this session.
christian
I am hoping that there is also some leg work and the technique is usually better than what the video shows…
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I think the couches are very good and students will ultimately benefit a lot from the process.Nice clips here.
Tim
Good thoughts always wanting to learn more, what are some of the factors that cause loss of force in swimming? I understand skin friction from all those hyped up suits, is there any cross over from swimming as exercise to other sports?