Immediate Impact!

Swim coaching in an outdoor pool, on a warm and sunny day. Oh to be able to do that every day!

Today’s 1-1 session was with a swimmer who has really worked hard to improve her technique over the past 12 months. And you know what? It shows. It has paid off.

Not a big improvement in speed (yet), but a much better technical swimmer.

Today we focused on getting the most from each and every arm stroke, generating greater propulsion. We also looked at increasing her stroke rate, cutting out a slight deadspot at the front of her stroke and making her smoother and more efficient in the water.

The next step for this swimmer is to vary her training a little more and build more short, powerful sets into her sessions.

I am convinced that this swimmer has speed in her locker just waiting to be unleashed! Watch this space!

UPDATE

Yesterday I was coaching a 1-1 session with swimmer and we worked on a few things including better propulsion and increased stroke rate.

The same swimmer did a 4k open water swim this morning. This included 1 x 500m and 2 x 1k efforts.

This swimmer focused on the points we discussed yesterday and hit an all time PB in the 500m effort and the 1k swim!

What an immediate impact!