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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…

As coaches, we sometimes find young swimmers that demonstrate this extraordinary and remarkable shoulder flexibility that would enable them to us…

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…

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…

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…

Swimming fast is primarily the result of the effective application of four broad basic sciences, Physics, Physiology, Kinesiology and (lumped tog…

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…

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 …

Rikako Ikee has already proven to be one of the fastest women butterfly swimming competitors in the world. Watching Rikako swimming butterfly, y…

At The Race Club camps, our fifth and final point of peak performance mental toughness training is called anchoring. Anchoring is sports psycholo…