Your students enjoy swimming but if you really think about it – they have favorite swimming strokes. And since they really like those strokes, is there really any advantage for them to learn the other ones? It may be that your students swim the freestyle stroke or breast stroke really
Muscle is a soft tissue in the human body which consumes more energy than other tissues- and that makes using them essential for weight loss. Muscle also is critical to our aging process because muscles help pull on the bone by way of the tendon – creating bone turnover –
Holly Heitzman, MS, LAT, ATC, PTA, St. Vincent Sports Performance, provides information on Achilles Heal – what causes it, how to recognize it and how to treat it – in a recent Technique Magazine, Vol. 34 – #7 (September/October 2014 issue) pages 7-9. These are such great details that we
Written by John Kirk Working on your flexibility will help improve your swim strokes, but do you know exactly how to work on it? This is an interesting topic because all coaches and instructors just don’t agree. The A Camp says that swears by pre-workout stretching – noting its impact
Core training for swimmers has evolved. Programs that include much more than push-up and sit-up regimens are quickly being replaced by the use of medicine balls, battle ropes and cutting-edge lifting sets. The goal is to maximize performance and reduce the risk of injury. Trick is to apply new dryland
Did you know that the power in your tumbling can be increased by building up your core fitness? As an athlete, you may feel that you’re already “fit”. But even as good as you may be at tumbling, you still have room to improve. And you can do so by
SwimSwam is a great resource for training. Swimmers have a different type of training than any other sport. Being able to set goals and work smarter is a huge part of the sport. Here are 6 ways to train smarter to get those great results. No matter how this season
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Athletes are not average people. While athletes may come into the world as average, they soon change. Athletes have a drive to constantly improve that is not present in every human being. Becoming an
I’m in Tampa with our girls gymnastics team (which is ridiculously humid but lots of fun), but I wanted to blog quick about a scenario where it might be a good idea NOT to stretch a gymnasts ankles for a toe point. Ankles are one of the most frequently injured body parts in gymnastics with a variety of injuries
There is a wonderful story to tell from the Fresno, CA Zimmerman Boys & Girls Club. It might be a storage room with no air conditioning that is really too small for the dozen young people to dance. They keep banging into hockey equipment and each other but they are
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