Category: Swimming
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Make Small Wins Move Fast
How chunking turns messy practice into clean performance
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Dry Land That Carries Into the Lane
How resistance training choices shape front crawl speed
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When the Water Breaks the Clock
A sprint highlight that doubles as a training blueprint
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The Zone Map That Finally Fits the Water
A biophysical way to train faster without guessing
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The Watt Beneath the Water
Freestyle biomechanics made simple enough to coach and precise enough to measure
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Swimming in 6 degrees of freedom
How immersive video modeling can sharpen technique and inspire a modern training loop
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The Architecture of Faster Freestyle
Across the set of included studies, the message is consistent enough to matter. Adding strength and conditioning alongside swim training tends to improve sprint freestyle performance, and the meta analysis supports improvements in fifty meter and one hundred meter outcomes compared with swim training alone.1
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Dolphin Kicks into the Finish and the Art of Choosing Speed
World Aquatics updated the backstroke finish rule (SW 6.3) so that once a swimmer’s head passes the 5 m mark before the wall, they’re allowed to fully submerge—which means they can potentially dolphin kick underwater into the finish instead of staying on the surface for a “classic” touch.
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Launch Speed Begins On Land
Max-strength vs. plyo vs. endurance for starts. Head-to-head comparisons show program choice changes block time & flight; periodize across the season.
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Water Meets Iron
Swim+strength beats swim-only (≈2–2.5% gains). Integrate 2x/wk S&C with water sessions for modest but meaningful race-time drops.