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Mastering Speed: A Comprehensive Coach's Guide to Swimming Faster

Unlock your potential in the pool with this in-depth coach's guide focused on techniques to enhance swimming speed. From perfecting your strokes—freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, and breaststroke—to mastering starts, turns, and finishes, discover tips and strategies that top swimmers like Mark Spitz would endorse. Emphasize high elbows, buoyancy, and streamlined movements to improve efficiency and reduce drag. Learn the importance of pacing, flexibility, and breathing techniques for optimal performance in both short and long distance events. Get ready to swim faster!

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Mastering Speed: A Comprehensive Coach's Guide to Swimming Faster

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  1. Swimming Faster A coach’s guide to Mark Spitzian Speed

  2. Major Technique Work • Pulling • Kicking • Individual Strokes • Starts, turns, and finishes The best way to swim faster is to practice faster. -Dick Shoulberg, 2001 US Women’s National Coach

  3. General Techniques • Keep High elbows • Close fingers and cup hands slightly • Stay high in the water • Keep Maximum Resistance in stroke and kick, and Minimum resistance in body • Breathe Quickly • Practice pace for distance events • Longer is better • STRETCH!!! Flexibility in shoulders and ankles!

  4. Freestyle • Emphasize stroke length and shoulder roll for maximum power • Use Question mark shaped stroke underwater • Draft off the opponent in longer events • No circle swimming • Bilaterally breathe • Six-beat kicking • No breathing in or out of turns • Extend duration of streamline

  5. Butterfly • Undulation • Question mark shaped stroke underwater • Keep arms low in recovery • Breathing pattern • Two-beat kick • Extend kick underwater • Shoulder and back strength • Stay conservative and long in distance event

  6. Backstroke • Shoulder roll with deep strokes • Head still • Head back and arch back • Straight arm recovery • 2-2-2 kicking rhythm • Butterfly kick underwater • Underwater kick up to 15 meters • Know the stroke count

  7. Breastroke • Bring hands into chest • Keep elbows high • Head down • Recover above the water • Stay high in the water • Stay low above the water • Find a rhythm • Lengthen the pull-out • Finish the kick

  8. Starts, Turns, and Finishes Starts: • Stay loose and explode off the block • Enter in an imaginary hole • Keep head tucked Turns: • Get in and out quickly, staying legal • No breathing inside of the flags • Extend the streamline Finishes: • Keep head down • EORT: length beats taking an extra stroke

  9. And Reap the Rewards:

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