Swimming Faster Faster: Tip 19 Train for a Couple Compatible Events When you are beginning a new season, decide which events you're going to train for and ...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:49 am
Swimming Faster Faster: Tip 20 Swim Straight If you train with a group and there's usually 2 or more people in your lane, you probably circle swim. When you...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:50 am
Swimming Faster Faster: Tip 22 Balls Today my dad goes in for hernia surgery, please wish him well. We all have various aspects to our lives that we are...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:51 am
Swimming Faster Faster: Tip 24 Ideal Performance State Ideal Performance State / IPS is where swimmers place their minds and bodies right before and while they...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:52 am
Swimming Faster Faster: Tip 25 Race in a Fast Pool Fast Pools really do exist. Pools are considered to be fast pools because of how they were designed and how...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:52 am
Swimming Faster Faster: Tip 26 Tapering Swimming Faster Faster: Tip 26 Tapering The Paradox of Training is 1) if you want to improve in the SHORT term, like...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:53 am
Swimming Faster Faster: Tip 27 What We Say Outloud I've trained with hundreds of swimmers over the years. During each practice there's always a little time to...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:54 am
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 28 Who You think You Are Who You think You Are is about your self image. It's that long list of I am's, I'm not's, I can's, and I...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:55 am
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 29 Mentally Tough Over my years of swimming, I've trained with and competed against a several swimmers who seemed more determined and...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:57 am
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 30 Swim Your Own Race When you're competing, it's important for you to swim your own race. This means you should swim the event, the...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:59 am
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 31 It Will Pass No matter how hard you try, sometimes you're going to + have a bad work out where you just won't feel capable of doing...
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Apr 16, 2005 11:59 am
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 31 Get Strong Fast swimmers tend to be very strong. They have amazing core body strength. Look at masters record holders like Ron...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:00 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 32 Goals Goals are critical to your swimming success. Goals are the outcomes we want, the targets we intend to hit, the dreams we want...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:01 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 33 Your Plan OK you've written down your swimming goals, Now what? If you really want to make them happen, you need to have a plan and...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:01 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 34 Choose "Experience shows that an athlete who forces himself to the limit, can keep going as long as necessary. It means that...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:02 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 35 Improve Your Turns When you're racing it's important to have fast turns. When you're swimming beside people in practice, and you go...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:03 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 36 My Reverse Calendar In my computer is a REVERSE CALENDAR on a MS word doc. at the very top is my goal for the season. below that is...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:04 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 37 Stay in Shape Between Seasons After a season ends, sometimes we take a break before we begin our next season. We quit training...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:05 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 38 To Time or Not To Time When you're warming up in a big meet. Eventually you'll get to the part of the warm up you do a few sprints...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:06 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 40 Shaving It's a fact, Shaved bodies have less drag than hairy ones. Shaving right before a big meet will help you swim faster. The...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:06 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 40 Shaving It's a fact, Shaved bodies have less drag than hairy ones. Shaving right before a big meet will help you swim faster. The...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:07 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 41 Get Truly Inspired Stop feeling content. When you are saticefied, when you are content, you're happy with the way things are. You...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:08 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 42 Smoothing the Wrinkles out Swim Faster Faster: Tip 42 Smoothing the Wrinkles out When you get to your big race, smooth all the...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:08 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 43 Faith Sorry this tip is # 43, It should be #1, but these tips are just in the order I wrote them. Today I saw Josh Davis and it...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:08 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 44 Unfatigued If you're at a meet and doing several swims try to arrange it to do your most important race first so you'll be...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:09 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 45 How Often, How Far, How Hard and How Smart This tip isn't fast or easy. Part of how fast you swim is a direct function of how well...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:10 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 46 Turn Cues Turn Cues are the visual cues we use to know when to do a free style flip turn. We're so used to them where we train, we...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:11 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 47 Flexibility Swim Faster Faster: Tip 47 Flexibility How's your flexibility? How's your range of motion? Are your muscles tight or...
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Apr 16, 2005 12:12 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 48 Ride The Glide Ride the Glide is about streamlining 1) off your start, 2) off the walls, and 3) off each breastroke kick How far and...
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Apr 18, 2005 4:00 pm
Swim Faster Faster: Tip 49 Get trained by a great coach. If you really want to swim faster faster, get trained by a great coach. Not all coaches are equal,...
