The Race Club – Swimming Camps • Coaching • Competitive Training • Advanced Techniques

BECAUSE LIFE IS WORTH SWIMMING

Our mission is to promote swimming through sport, lifelong enjoyment, and good health benefits. Our objective is for each member of The Race Club to improve his or her swimming performances, health, and self-esteem through our educational programs, services and creativity.

The Race Club features the primary resources available for swimmers: Swim Camp, Swim Video Subscriptions and Individual Swim Coaching. The Swim Camps are 8-session clinics held in California. The Race Club Membership is a subscription services providing access to weekly videos and more. Our individual swim coaching services are available online, where you live or at one of our two locations.

We strive to help each member of The Race Club overcome challenges and reach his or her individual life goals from Olympic swim training to developing freestyle swimming technique. The Race Club provides facilities, swim coaching, training, technical instruction, video, fitness and health programs for swimmers of all ages and abilities. Race Club swim camps are designed and tailored to satisfy each swimmer’s needs, whether one is trying to reach the Olympic Games or simply improve their fitness level. Our programs are suitable for beginning swimmers, pleasure swimmers, fitness swimmers, USA swimming, YMCA swimmers, or triathletes; anyone who wants to improve swimming skills. All of our Race Club members share an enjoyment of being in the water and use swimming to stimulate a more active mind and body.

VIDEO LIBRARY

Butterfly Swimming Technique

To race well, swimmers need to practice close to race pace. In this Race Club video, you will see one of the test set we use for butterfly, preparing our swimmers for the 100 meter butterfly. Doing repeat short swims with short rest, holding the target stroke rate and speed, while maintaining good technique is the key to a successful test set. Some of the swimmers do well in the set and others struggle during the set, which is an indicator of the need for more aerobic fitness. Use test sets like this butterfly set to help you know where you stand and to get ready for your fastest race of the season!

Backstroke Swim Technique – Mikita Tsmyh

Mikita Tsmyh competed in the 2016 and 2021 Olympics for Belarus and has an outstanding backstroke swim technique. We had the opportunity to work with Mikita using our Smart Paddle and Velocity Meter technology.  While Mikita has a very good coupling motions, stroke rate, head and body position in his backstroke swim technique we found room for improvement in his pulling motion.

Butterfly with Freestyle Kick

To improve your technique in swimming butterfly, learn to utilize two important coupling motions: the head snapping down after the breath and the arms swinging forward aggressively during the recovery. In this video we highlight these two techniques using the freestyle kick butterfly drill with fins on, a drill we often use in our swimming camps.

Butterfly – Left Right Front Swim Drill

One of our favorite swim drills for Butterfly is the Left Right Front drill. At the Race Club we use this drill to correct several common mistakes that swimmers make during butterfly technique.

AQUA NOTES

TRC Main Set – 100 Butterfly Stroke Rate

TRC Main Set – 100 Butterfly Stroke Rate

The ability to maintain a high stroke rate (SR) in butterfly is critical to being a successful 100 butterflyer. This main set is a perfect continuation of the set we highlighted in this week’s video release. If you haven’t watched it yet… check it out here to learn more about what you should focus on in terms of technique & breathing pattern in the 100 butterfly. Just like in the video, we’ll continue to focus on keeping the shoulders low during the breath & elevating the hands before they enter the water on each recovery.

Anaerobic Threshold Training: Race Pace Training

Anaerobic Threshold Training: Race Pace Training

Anaerobic threshold training, also referred to as Lactate training, is a vital part of today’s swimming training. Let me explain what it is and why it is so important.

The human body has two systems for generating the energy required for human body functions: aerobic and anaerobic. They are very different. Besides the fact that one requires oxygen (aerobic) to function and the other does not (anaerobic), and that they both require glucose, they also have very different rates of energy production and different consequences from their use.

TRC Main Set – Erik Vendt Set

TRC Main Set – Erik Vendt

This week’s main set is inspired by one of the most challenging workouts I ever did in my swimming career. My coach called it the “Erik Vendt Set”. Erik Vendt is an American Olympian that specialized in the 400 IM & 1500 Freestyle. Legend is that he would do this set for 9 rounds and an interval under 5:00 mins (SCY) for both the 400 & 500.

Five Traditional Swimming Techniques We Should Abandon

Five Traditional Swimming Techniques we should abandon
There are certain swimming techniques which have been traditionally taught by many coaches for decades that we should seriously consider abandoning. These are not the controversial swimming techniques.

JOIN THE CLUB

We provide swimming videos for all age groups, triathletes and competitive swimmers.
Explore a breakdown of our prices for weekly videos and more below.
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Limited Time Only

MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS

LANE 2

For a deeper dive into great swimming technique, move over to Lane 2.
$9.99 Per Month | 7-Day Free Trial
  • Full access to Aqua Notes library
  • Complete Video tutorials

LANE 3

For swimmers that want to go faster, move up to Lane 3.
$19.99 Per Month
  • Full access to Aqua Notes & Video Library
  • Access to Dryland exercise videos, interviews and more
  • A lot more awesome features

LANE 4: Pro

For the most comprehensive online coaching possible, move into the fastest speed of the Lane 4 subscription.
$250.00 Per Month
  • Full access to Aqua Notes & Video Library
  • Access to Dryland exercise videos, interviews, and more
  • 2 live 30-minute Video Conferences
  • Online Coach: Thomas Hensen
  • Access to complete library of workouts for swimming and dryland

LANE 4: Elite

For the most comprehensive online coaching possible, move into the fastest speed of the Lane 4 subscription.
$375.00 Per Month
  • Full access to Aqua Notes & Video Library
  • Access to Dryland exercise videos, interviews and more
  • 2 live 30-minute Video Conferences
  • Online Coaches: Gary Hall Sr., Gary Hall Jr., Alex Meyer and Dr. Megan Cannon
  • Access to complete library of workouts for swimming and dryland

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

LANE 2

For a deeper dive into great swimming technique, move over to Lane 2.
$99.99 Per Year | 7-Day Free Trial
  • Full access to Aqua Notes library
  • Complete Video tutorials

LANE 3

For swimmers that want to go faster, move up to Lane 3.
$199.99 Per Year
  • Full access to Aqua Notes & Video Library
  • Access to Dryland exercise videos, interviews and more
  • A lot more awesome features

LANE 4: Pro

For the most comprehensive online coaching possible, move into the fastest speed of the Lane 4 subscription.
$2300.00 Per Year
  • Full access to Aqua Notes & Video Library
  • Access to Dryland exercise videos, interviews, and more
  • 2 live 30-minute Video Conferences per month
  • Online Coaches: Thomas Hensen
  • Access to complete library of workouts for swimming and dryland

LANE 4: Elite

For the most comprehensive online coaching possible, move into the fastest speed of the Lane 4 subscription.
$3500.00 Per Year
  • Full access to Aqua Notes & Video Library
  • Access to Dryland exercise videos, interviews, and more
  • 2 live 30-minute Video Conferences per month
  • Online Coaches: Gary Hall Sr., Gary Hall Jr., Alex Meyer and Dr. Megan Cannon
  • Access to complete library of workouts for swimming and dryland

DIVE INTO LANE 1 FOR FREE

LANE 1

Dive into Lane 1 to learn the basic Race Club swimming techniques.
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REGISTER FOR SWIM CAMP

The Race Club Swim Camps are unlike any other swim camps or clinics. Swimmers will focus on all strokes, starts and swim turns, while improving freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly technique. Learn 4 different types of dryland training, the science of swimming and the 5 disciplines of fast swimming. Develop seasonal planning, mental training and race strategy techniques that are sure to give you an edge over your competition. Whether you’re a beginner, master, triathlete or a competitive swimmer, we recommend that all campers attend every camp session to gain a comprehensive knowledge of our methodologies to improve your swimming technique. All swim camps below are open for registration.

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Coronado, CA

Brian Bent Memorial Aquatics Complex 818 Sixth Street Coronado, CA 92118