Developing "Feel" For The Water
The biggest challenge for the adult swimmers we see in our program is developing "feel" for the water.
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Streamline Teams
- Feb 16
- 4 min
Just Breaking The Surface
We see it all too often, what appears to be the Loch Ness monster rising up and out of the water.
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Streamline Teams
- Jan 24
- 4 min
Teaching The B.A.S.I.C.S.
Trying to do everything without a pure foundation, leads to inconsistencies and results that aren’t repeatable.
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Streamline Teams
- Jan 3
- 6 min
The Last Day I Coached 100x100: A Short Story.
I challenge myself to create workouts that create the same dynamic, the same challenge, with greater outcome.
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Alexis Keto
- Nov 3, 2022
- 3 min
Lessons Learned: Keep it Simple
Part Two of a Three part series on what a young coach has learned throughout the first part of a career.
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Streamline Teams
- Oct 25, 2022
- 4 min
Get To Know Your Athletes
Getting to know athletes as people can help coaches connect complex concepts to each athlete and bridge the gap between generations.
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Alexis Keto
- Sep 26, 2022
- 3 min
Flipping the Cords Around
Taking a different view on how to use assist cords
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Streamline Teams
- Jun 14, 2022
- 3 min
IM Training
o build endurance in the 20 yard pool, we think about changing a set over a few weeks.
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Streamline Teams
- May 12, 2022
- 4 min
The Order of Freestyle
Whether working with beginners, intermediates or advanced swimmers, I always evaluate and teach freestyle in a specific order.
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Streamline Teams
- Mar 17, 2022
- 3 min
Flip Turns
We have incorporated a few drills to help the swimmers learn how to use their hands during the flip turn.
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Streamline Teams
- Jan 25, 2022
- 5 min
High School Age Swimmers: 400 IM development
I believe the goal for a great 400 IM set, is make it around 3-4k in length and have a build in speed to the set.
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Streamline Teams
- Jan 18, 2022
- 4 min
Peer Coaching & Creating An Environment of Learning
I’m open to learning from my athletes and I allow them to explore and teach they teach me skills and drills that they have found beneficial.
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Streamline Teams
- Jan 6, 2022
- 5 min
Streamlining Workout Composition
One component that isn’t talked about a great deal – perhaps ever – is how to incorporate workouts from other coaches into your style.
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Streamline Teams
- Jan 4, 2022
- 3 min
The Importance of Language
Coaching is about transferring knowledge and language is integral to our everyday lives...
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Streamline Teams
- Dec 30, 2021
- 3 min
A Didactic Approach In Full Stroke
For me, technical exercises are not the panacea for improving an athlete. They take up too much time; in some cases the athlete has to...
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Streamline Teams
- Dec 23, 2021
- 6 min
Dry Land Training: Developing Athletes In the Water
Written By: Bernardine Dickman Today, our youth spend much more time on sedentary activities than in the past. Due to the computer,...
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Streamline Teams
- Dec 16, 2021
- 7 min
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
If you find you’re layering correction after correction, you’re fixing symptoms not problems.
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Streamline Teams
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
Teaching Body Awareness to All Levels of Your Program
One of the most important skills that you can teach and keep refining with your athletes is body awareness in the water.
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Streamline Teams
- Nov 23, 2021
- 4 min
The Importance of Pull-Ups In The Development of Faster Swimmers
The pull-up is by far one of the best and most fundamental exercises that a swimmer can do, and in my personal opinion...
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Streamline Teams
- Nov 16, 2021
- 5 min
Coaching Compass: Sharing My North, South, East & West
In finding your "True North" you will decide what you value most in coaching, maybe even in life.
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