How to Get Your Hand Entry Right
Last month I did a one-on-one stroke correction session with a swimmer and she was entering too early in her freestyle. So she was entering her hand before she needed to which meant that she was creating a drag as she extended forward. So we needed to move her hand entry out a little bit…. Read More…
How To Stay Fit When On Holidays
This week I’m in Fiji and topic of today’s video is “What do you like to do in holidays to stay fit?”. Here in Fiji most of the islands are surrounded by coral, you can’t swim around a lot of them. So, I have do some different things to stay fit because when you stop… Read More…
Quick Food Preparation For Hungry Swimmers
If you’re like me and you’re a swimmer and an athlete. If you eat a lot of food and you go to cupboard more than once to see what is there to eat then what I found to work really well to not only help me eat less but to make sure that I eat… Read More…
How To Breathe To Your Opposite Side In Freestyle
When you are looking to breath to your other side in freestyle, sometimes it can be challenging because most of the time you’re used to breathing in to one side and the other side, you haven’t got that practiced and sometimes isn’t as comfortable as it is breathing to the opposite side. So if you… Read More…
Are You Enjoying It?
This week I drove from Melbourne to Sydney on our way to the Master’s National Championships. And on our way there, I listened to a really good book called Born to Run. And I listened to it through Audible which is a really cool service if you haven’t used it before. But the premise behind… Read More…
Why Do You Do It?
I know that when I haven’t set a goal for the next couple of months to train towards it is very difficult to get myself off to the pool to get training. If there is nothing to look forward to then there is really no reason to get yourself out of bed early in the… Read More…
The “Gentle” Entry
This week you will notice the video is a little bit different to what we normally do. The reason is I am going to show you a video that I have just posted in Swimprove which is our online coaching program. We are looking at increasing stroke rate; a lot of swimmers can struggle with… Read More…
How To Be More Confident In Open Water
I went down to watch the Ironman Melbourne this weekend which was absolutely awesome. There were over 2000 competitors starting at once in the age group category. It was pretty choppy conditions and it was really rough particularly out the back. Quite a few swimmers I saw started the race and then said no I… Read More…
The “Fake” Catch
What could I mean by the fake catch? I have spoken a little bit about this in Swimprove this week as well. Quite a few swimmers enter at an angle like that rather than keeping their hand flat there. The reason why some swimmers do it is because entering like that means that they enter… Read More…
The One About Running (with Bobby McGee)
Bobby McGee has 31 years of coaching experience. He started intensely coaching triathletes in 2002. He has coached the Olympic champion in Atlanta in a marathon. He also coached some age group race walkers, some amateur race walkers to world titles and then the last decade has been full on with the triathletes. Watch some… Read More…
