Mental Toughness: The Mike Burton Story
In our talks on mental training, we often share an inspirational story of one of the many swimmers that we believe are a 10 on the killer instinct…
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Vertical Arm Recovery in Butterfly
As coaches, we sometimes find young swimmers that demonstrate this extraordinary and remarkable shoulder flexibility that would enable them to us…
Goosebumps Moments in Sports
I have had many goosebumps moments in my life. Three of the most notable were watching my son, Gary Jr, win an Olympic gold medal in the 50 meter…
What Octane Rating do you have on your Freestyle Recovery?
At The Race Club we use the analogy of Octane ratings in gasoline to describe the different arm recovery motions in freestyle. Octane is a low mo…
What is your Baseline Freestyle Speed?
At The Race Club, we look at the freestyle kicking speed as the baseline speed for your freestyle. In other words, your all-out kicking speed for…
Understanding the 4 Basic Sciences of Fast Swimming
Swimming fast is primarily the result of the effective application of four broad basic sciences, Physics, Physiology, Kinesiology and (lumped tog…
Physiology for Swimmers, Coaches and Parents – Part III Muscle Composition
The paradox of building too much muscle mass is that it can begin to affect our shape (morphology), making us bigger, which increases frontal dra…
Improving your Swimming Race Starts off the Blocks
The Three Techniques of a Clean Entry for Swimming Race Starts: When a swimmer’s hands first strike the water on the swimming start, the speed …
Butterfly Stroke: Why I like Rikako Ikee’s Butterfly Technique
Rikako Ikee has already proven to be one of the fastest women butterfly swimming competitors in the world. Watching Rikako swimming butterfly, y…
Peak Performance Sports Psychology Mental Toughness: Are you Anchoring to improve your Swimming Performances?
At The Race Club camps, our fifth and final point of peak performance mental toughness training is called anchoring. Anchoring is sports psycholo…