Swimmer Things

That’s a lie. There’ll be Water Polo too. Lots of aquatic water stuffs. Athletic too.

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Watch the Olympian’s but more importantly film yourself and watch that film too in a positive manner and look for things you can fix but also for things you are doing well.

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Take breaks. For those of you who do glance at this page I apologize for the lack of presence. I found myself becoming extremely burnt out (I’m a university student and have maintained swimming on the side). I took the semester off. Hopefully I can post more this round.

But take breaks. Even if they’re only for a few days or hours. It’s good for you.

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Make friends it’s people outside of swimming. This helps give you a break and prevents burn out.

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Sometimes I’m Marlin sometimes I’m Dory 🤷🏼‍♀️

Anyone else?

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When writing a workout for the day if you’re on your own remember to include variety. A little bit of kick and pull amongst all the swimming along with some drill can go a long way.

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Injuries are common with any athlete (I recently sprained my ankle) so in addition to the last post:

https://www.usms.org/fitness-and-training/articles-and-videos/articles/can-i-swim-with-a-sprained-ankle

Can I Swim With a Sprained Ankle?

As soon as you feel the stabbing pain in your ankle, you know you shouldn’t have been texting while crossing the street. Predictably, you st

https://swimswam.com/how-to-stay-sane-and-motivated-when-you-get-injured/

How to Stay Sane and Motivated When You Get Injured

Every swimmer experiences the frustration, helplessness, and depression of being sidelined. Here's how to stay sane and motivated when injur

https://swimswam.com/5-tips-for-bouncing-back-from-injury/

5 Tips for Bouncing Back From Injury

There are fewer things more frustrating to a swimmer than injury. Here are 5 tips to bounce back from an injury.

https://swimswam.com/learning-survive-thrive-swimming-injured/

Learning to Survive - and Thrive - While Swimming Injured

Champions don't back down from a challenge, and injuries are one of the most prevalent challenges in sports and swimming. Sometimes the best

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Don’t push an injury further. It’s important to still train but don’t train hard enough to make it worse. Consult your coach, parent, trainer, or doctor for ANY injury.

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Swim with the elbow and not the shoulder

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Water Polo:

Setting up! Make sure your team is setting up in the correct places for the duration of the game. Don’t let exhaustion drive a hole in your set up. A solid set up is one of your best defenses and one of the first things to fall apart when exhaustion sets in.

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Take a break. Miss a practice. Plan a day to. Take. A. Break. Avoid burnout and just take a break

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Don’t just swim 50’s and 100’s. Mix it up with some longer and shorter distances.

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Develop a meet warm up that works for you and produces the best result.

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Swim “your race” once a week with or without a start. This is critical to learning how you want to swim it. ESPECIALLY FOR DISTANCE AND IM SWIMMERS!!

I swim the mile/500/800(1000). The best thing I’ve ever done is start swimming those distances race paced or just straight at a decent pace once a week at the minimum. This will help build up endurance, confidence in counting (count it yourself), and help to develop a race plan.

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My Top 10 Pieces of Training Equipment:

1) Snorkel (with a nose plug)

2) Kickboard (full size)

3) Pull Buoy

4) Fins (long)

5) Agility Paddles (Finis)

6) Parachute

7) Kickboard Chute

8) Swim Socks

9) ISO paddles (Finis)

10) Finis Tempo Trainer

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Cross overs have a nasty habit of being invisible until it’s too late. There’s two major cross overs:

One: Above Head

An above head cross over is when you place your hand into your entry at the beginning of a stroke and it crosses over to be in front of your forehead. The continued underwater pull can continue to cross the midline underwater or be correct.

Two: Underwater pull

When pulling underwater the hand cross the midline of the body and is underneath the stomach.

Both types of crossovers are going to lead to shoulder pain and can eventually lead to injury. Most people don’t know they have a crossover until it’s filmed or someone else sees it. Keep an eye out for a cross over and correct it as soon as possible! Good drills are: 18” hallway, pause type drills at the start and end of stroke, and swimming with a wide kick board at the top of your stroke. Cautiously YouTube some drill videos can be helpful as well. Mostly it’s paying attention to where your arms are in the water and to what you’re doing.

Here’s some poorly drawn images of those crossovers. They probably aren’t helpful but I can’t draw and it’s the best I could do. The blue lines are your midline. The red circle on the second one is the arm crossing under the body.

Sorry they suck. Sorry if you’re colorblind too.....I tried.

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“You can throw in the towel or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face”.

Unknown quote origin

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Drills. All. The. Time. At least 200 yards a practice. It’ll pay off.