Swimming
Swimming specific training
The following Sports Coach pages provide information specific to the sport of Swimming:
- Critical Swim Speed
- Effective breathing, whilst swimming, is all in the balance
- Find a Coach
- How to prepare a swimming training program
- How to get into shape for swimming
- Strength Training for swimmers
- Stroke your way to faster times
- Swimming Technique - Backstroke
- Swimming Technique - Breaststroke
- Swimming Technique - Butterfly
- Swimming Technique - Freestyle (Crawl)
- Swimming - Why high-intensity training is a better than high-volume training
Developing a training programme
You will find the following pages useful in developing your Swimming fitness training program.
Planning the training
- How to prepare your training program
- Example training program
- Performance Profiling - how to identify weaknesses in your skills
General strength development
- Circuit Training - develops strength and endurance
- Weight Training program using dumbbells
- Weight Training program using free weights and machines
- Weight Training program for sprinters - uses Olympic lifts
Developing elastic strength
- Plyometrics
- Plyometric Exercises - Arms
- Plyometric Exercises - Legs
- Plyometrics High Intensity Exercises - Legs
- Complex Training - using weights and plyometrics exercises
General conditioning
- Developing your Core Stability - Abdominals and lower back
- Conditioning exercises for the legs
- Conditioning exercises for the lower legs
- Conditioning exercises for the upper body
Agility training
Some of these pages contain evaluation performance tests but they also make good training sessions.
Speed development
Endurance training - cardiovascular development
- Developing your VO2max
- Interval and continuous training
- Hill training
- Training with a heart rate monitor - Training Zones
Nutrition
- Nutrition - determining your daily requirements
- What to eat when training and competing
- Nutritional tips
- Sports Drinks
Psychology
- Sports psychology
- Relaxation techniques
- Overview of mental imagery
- Mental imagery - developing the skill
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Associated Pages
The following Sports Coach pages should be read in conjunction with this page:
- Find a Coach
- How to prepare a swimming training program
- Planning the Training - 6 stages of development
- Strength Training for swimmers
- Swimming Technique - Backstroke
- Swimming Technique - Breaststroke
- Swimming Technique - Butterfly
- Swimming - Why high-intensity training is a better than high-volume training
- Sport/Event specific articles
Associated Books
The following books provide more information related to this topic:
- Advanced Studies in Physical Education and Sport, P Beashel et al., ISBN 0 17 4482345
- Physical Education and the Study of Sport, B. Davis et al., ISBN 0 7234 31752
- Essentials of Exercise Physiology, W.D. McArdle et al., ISBN 0 683 30507 7
- Physical Education and Sport Studies, D. Roscoe et al., ISBN 1 901424 20 0
- The World of Sport Examined, P. Beashel et al., ISBN 0 17 438719 9
- Advanced PE for Edexcel, F. Galligan et al., ISBN 0 435 50643 9
- Examining Physical Education, K. Bizley, ISBN 0 435 50660 9
- Sport and PE, K Wesson et al., ISBN 0 340 683821
- PE for you, J. Honeybourne, ISBN 0 7487 3277 2