Description
A very warm welcome to ‘Freestyle Competitive Swimming Drills’: Containing over 100 freestyle drills
Now available in both Amazon Kindle and paperback formats.
About this publication
This publication provides coaches and teachers with a series of tried and tested competitive freestyle drills.
These can be easily incorporated and adapted into your training programmes, whether you coach rookies or national swimmers.
Delivering the technical and physical demands of our sport
Competitive swimming is a gruelling sport, requiring swimmers to undertake many hours of repetitive training each week, in pursuit of excellence. For dedicated swimming coaches, developing a training programme that delivers the technical and physical demands of our sport, and at the same time adding variety and even a bit of fun to your sessions is an ongoing process that can be both difficult and time-consuming to achieve. Training programmes without fresh stimuli are in real danger of demotivating both swimmers and coaches alike.
About me
Over the past twenty-plus years as a head coach, coach and teacher, I have managed to collate a portfolio of competitive freestyle drills, which I have used to develop many young competitive freestyle swimmers to county, regional/state and national level, the best of which are published here.
Publication focus
This publication focuses on the stroke’s key technical and physical areas, each has its own dedicated chapter, breaking down the stroke into its key constituent parts, to help both the coach and the swimmer develop and maintain a great freestyle. These include:
body position | head position | a balanced stroke | breathing technique | leg kick | arm stroke | sculling | stroke counting | starts | turns | finishes | underwater kicking | sprinting | speed play | aerobic conditioning |anaerobic conditioning | warm-ups | cool-downs | recovery swims.
Swimming glossary
As there may be some regional and international variances in the swimming terms used in this publication, I have included a swimming glossary in Chapter 17.
Competitive swimming training
Competitive swimming training requires the swimmer to perform repetitive technical and physical drills, to master a set of key skills, which enables them to perform to the best of their ability, under the pressure of competition.
Repetitive training enables the swimmer to adopt this training to their ‘muscle memory’*, enabling them to automatically perform as taught when required in competition.
(*muscle memory – the ability to reproduce a movement without conscious thought, acquired as a result of frequent repetition of that movement)
If the training is perfect, then the muscle memory will store the perfect technique, however, if the training is poor, then the muscle memory will store poor technique, which can be very difficult to correct.
As the fastest competitive stroke, freestyle is used as the main fitness development stroke in most training programmes. While spending many hours, swimming many lengths of freestyle and as fatigue sets in, there is a real and constant danger of the swimmer’s freestyle technique deteriorating.
For any coach, it’s important that they ‘consistently and persistently’ incorporate drills into their training programme to reinforce and develop a great freestyle technique.
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