Swimming Ideas Podcast 003: Short Distance Skill Work

You'll take from this episode a huge range of possibility for your swimming program. This technique works wonderfully for both swim lessons and for swim teams and their developmental programs. If you’re working on new drills or turns, you can use this for teaching advanced swimmers!

Here is what we’ll cover:

.

Lessons:

1. How to set up your pool for short distances
2. How it works during a lesson
3. What theinstructorshould be doing
4. How to explain what you’re doing
5. Everyone goes 3x streamline + …
6. Everyone does this, rotation style
7. How to give feedback
8. Once they get to instructor
9. On the way back to start place
10. What the swimmer gets out of it
11. Walk throughtheirindividual journey
12. What are instructions
13. What should focus on
14. Attempt 1 feedback
15. Attempt 2 on return (or not)
16. What do they do while waiting for their turn
17. On their second time through, ideally remember initial feedback

.

Swim Team

1. How to set up the pool and lanes for short distance stroke work
2. Break up into groups
3. How the format works
4. Action, move over in lane, return to line
5. Go when person in front of you has moved out of the way
6. What are the instructions you should give your swimmers
7. Typcially 3x [Item 1] + [Item 2]
8. Why 3 times? It is easy to remember, gives about 5-7 minutes of activity
9. Be as clear as possible
10. What theCoachesshould be doing during
11. Constant feedback for every swimmer
12. Swimmer checks with coach after each attempt
13. What is next? Do a set which incorporates what you just did.