Ok, we are going to get on our soapbox and drill down on what we think is the #1 problem in our industry – Swimmer attendance. Full disclosure, in addition to founding and owning OneSwim, we also own our own year-round swim team. We have been the coaches for a large board-controlled swim team as…
Eddie Reese is the most successful college coach of all time. We have had the good fortune of hearing Eddie speak many, many times. And every single time he mentioned 1 simple fact: 1x per day his swimmers do 8×100 Flow on 2:00 minute restarts. Many years ago, we took his advice and started to…
The swim industry is full of thoughts on ‘resistance training’. The broad strokes of how most people refer to ‘resistance’ is the use of gear such as Power Bags, Parachutes, Pulleys/Power Towers, fins, and paddles. We feel the topic deserves a much deeper dive other than race full out with some form of gear. You…
The Breaststroke Kick is clearly the most complex kick to master of all our swim strokes. The problems start with beginners, but it is essential for advanced swimmers to constantly improve their kick technique and power as well. Let’s start by digging into the 3 most common problems we see with beginner breast kickers. Basic…
The Breaststroke Kick is clearly the most complex kick to master of all our swim strokes. The problems start with beginners but it is essential for advanced swimmers to constantly improve their kick technique and power as well. Let’s start by digging into the 3 most common problems we see with beginner breast kickers. Problem…
The High Catch is the most essential movement for all of the swimming strokes. It is where 90% of the forward movement comes from. With stroke details that are so important, we need to focus on a constant improvement to the High Catch technique (knowing that it can always be improved on as we get…
RESISTANCE MUST BE TAILORED TO THE LEVEL OF THE SWIMMER ONESwim is owned and operated by year-around swim coaches. As coaches we develop and produce products that WE need for our team. Unlike other swim training product companies that only offer 1-2 sizes of parachutes and other ‘one-size-fits all’ products, we offer the FULL range…
Nearly everything we do at ONE Swim can be boiled down to ‘Resistance Training’. For us, this term sums up 2 different forms of training that we feel are essential to swim training. The 2 forms we focus on as coaches and as inventors of swim equipment are: ‘Resistance Technique’ ‘Resistance for Power’ Resistance Technique…
Since over 70% of our overall speed is generated from our upper body, it makes sense why our dryland program needs to address and build all of these muscles. First thing we need to do is make a list of all of the upper body muscles we use in swimming. Back muscles Lat Muscles Shoulders…
Scheduling has to be the hardest thing to do. The key to anything that seems difficult is to break it down into pieces so the task is not as daunting. I revamp our team’s dryland program every 6 months (at the end of each season) with each of my groups to keep things interesting for…
Every 4-6 months in my team, our coaches are tasked with the goal of revamping our programs by 15-20%. Our goal is to remove the least effective 20% of each part of our program (in-water and dryland) and phase in 20% new methods to ensure our programs do not get stale or boring. This forces…
How do you maximize the use of EZ/Pace Swimming? I want to explore how we, as coaches, can use an active recovery swim as a way to advance the swimmers technique or race strategy. This type of swim is typically used as an ‘active recovery’ to slow down the heart rate and working out the…
