Some swimmers won’t even take a full stroke of butterfly until weeks into working on these drills. The pay off for me has been significant.

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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We are creating an “environment of psychological safety” for all our athletes.

As inconvenient as change can be, it has forced us as individuals, and as a sport, to look at what really matters.

If you find you’re layering correction after correction, you’re fixing symptoms not problems.

One of the most important skills that you can teach and keep refining with your athletes is body awareness in the water.

If you hire people who make you comfortable or you hire people who are just like you, then you are wasting your time.

To me, there is something different about learning something and experiencing something.

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Whether the connect is small or big, takes 10 minutes or 2 years, every connection makes an impact on our lives and the lives of others.

The pull-up is by far one of the best and most fundamental exercises that a swimmer can do, and in my personal opinion...

In finding your "True North" you will decide what you value most in coaching, maybe even in life.

In my opinion, the stroke that requires the most amount of patience, balance, and consistency is breaststroke.

Sacrifice: the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do.

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I’ve seen so many talented friends & colleagues get into this profession for all the right reasons, only to leave because of the long hours.