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Introducing Sensory Mitts Jr.
Today we are releasing a smaller sibling of AquaVolo Sensory Mitts: Sensory Mitts Jr. The smaller size was inspired by feedback from coaches. Sensory Mitts Jr. were designed for age group swimmers and college swimmers with smaller hands. To learn more about the idea behind Sensory Mitts, please read this article: Sensory Mitts – Feel…
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Rob Herb – Lehigh University
4x 3×75 DragSox descend on 1:301×75 no DragSox A/O1x50 ez pick up DragSox on 1:30(all about creating a bit of leg fatigue and then full out sprint creating feeling of racing backend of 100) 4x 400 on 7/8 PUSH hard from the beginning of the 400- how long can you hold the effort on each…
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TKick Tip To Build Great Underwater Dolphin Kick
We received this tip from one of the coaches who uses TKicks: Attach the TKick a little closer to the wall than normal and ask your swimmers to make a turn without touching the wall. Once the turn is made, they must then dolphin kick underwater beyond the TKick. This is difficult because the swimmer…
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Core and Connection
(Image source: Complete Conditioning for Swimming. Dave Salo and Scott A. Riewald (2008)) I came across the article, The Art of Connected Swimming: Jonty Skinner and Kristian Gkolomeev, today and it has some interesting things to say about the core and how our brains are wired. Skinner talks about the need to develop the core.…
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Spot the DragSox
Check out this documentary with Missy Franklin training in Hawaii. There are some DragSox cameos—can you spot them? Here is the direct link to the video.
