By Torrey Hart March 30th, 2020 SwimSwam thanks SwimmersBest for sponsoring “Drill of the Month.” This is a SwimSwam recurring feature that brings drills and idea submissions from various creative and innovative coaches all over the world. March’s SwimmersBest Drill of the Month comes to us from Zach Mertens, a third-year assistant coach at Drury…
Social distancing with over 2 people per lane can get confusing during IM sets. Do you start off in Fly? Do you split up the Free leg? By SwimSwam Partner Content June 10th, 2020 courtesy ONEswim.com, a SwimmersBest brand For most of us, we are either back in the water or coming back soon. Chances…
By Swimming World Magazine Partner Content 06 May 2020, 03:08pm Can we safely swim with 6 people in a lane? We hear a lot about the rules of running a gym with social distancing. There is plenty of support about managing our pool bathroom, or how to navigate at
By SwimSwam Partner Content June 05, 2020 courtesy ONEswim.com, a SwimmersBest brand Heads up FR/BK in sets How: Swim Freestyle or Backstroke with the head lifted out of the water Keep the mouth out of the water Make sure to keep kicking (swimmers will want to just drag their legs) Only do 1/2 distance at…
By SwimSwam Partner Content May 28th, 2020 courtesy ONEswim.com, a SwimmersBest brand We are all dying to get back in the water and many states are starting to make that possible for swim teams. So we all need to find the best way for kids to come back to practice safely. Right now it’s about…
For many years tempo training beepers have been used by many elite programs. However due to the high cost per swimmer ($50+), they failed to gain much ground with most age group swim programs. It can just be hard to find enough uses for them. But now free phone apps and swimming headsets can…
By SwimSwam Partner Content May 09th, 2020 courtesy ONEswim.com, a SwimmersBest brand So many of us are locked out of our lap pools for an unknown amount of time and are likely to be locked out again pretty soon if they do open up. But you CAN use your backyard pool as an ideal tool…
By SwimSwam Partner Content May 05th, 2020 courtesy ONEswim.com, a SwimmersBest brand If you are a competitive swimmer, you are used to practicing 1-2 hours a day 4-6 days a week. You have likely been out of the water for over a month. If you have access to a backyard pool, it can be a…
see Part 1 By SwimSwam Partner Content February 07th, 2020 courtesy of ONEswim.com, a SwimmersBest brand Most swimmers are given lots of training on the fundamentals of their turns. However, there are 2 turn problems that get worse and worse with endless practices: the approach into the turn, and the set-up to leave the wall…
ONESwim is not only a family-owned swim gear company, we also have 5 swim coaches in our family and run a local swim team. This gives us the opportunity to see problems as coaches, swimmers, and manufacturers. For the covid problems our swim team started using Station Markers in February 2020 before Stay-at-Home orders occurred.…
By SwimSwam Partner Content March 17th, 2020 courtesy of ONEswim.com, a SwimmersBest brand Once your body has made the flip, any hesitation, any little last minute adjustments, any imbalance, every single micro change you need to make takes time… are you working on fixing those details or hoping your competitor has them too? In Part…
While there are some people that still believe that swim teams will just ‘go back to normal’ swim practices and others that feel we shouldn’t swim until we have a vaccine, most can clearly agree that we will need to make some changes in the way we run swim practices in 2020. The industry’s process…
