Knowledge is Speed!

Imagine you just walked on deck for the first time as a head or assistant coach. What do you do now!?

How do you control these kids and make them believe in their team and training?
How do you structure and write workouts?
How do you teach the strokes in a competitive way?
How do you keep track of the yards in an organized way?

The answers are all available below!

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Season Planning and Periodization
- Planning a season is a valuable mental exercise for any coach. Here is a guideline and example of putting together a season from start to finish
- Includes the Senior Template
Workout Templates
- Novice (8 and unders)- Focus on training technique and kicking
- Age Group (9-12)- Focus on training for the race
- Senior/Distance (13 )- Focus on training zones
- All templates are 2-week cycles of structured workout plans that help lay the ground work for planning your training
- All include detailed explanations of drills and training intensities to focus each set on a defined goal
- Sample workouts included with calculated yards, time and stress scores
- Treat these as a guideline to build your own program with
Workout Progressions
- Over 300 workouts
- Each set has a Level 1, 2 and 3 version
- Structured by training zones
- Free/Fly kick and IM sets too
Dryland Template
- Swimming focused with teachings about the Four main swimming motions and Four main training intensities
- Stretching explanations included
- A guide to what exercises should be done, when and how many sets/reps of each during different parts of the season
- A list of possible exercises for each swimming motion and training intensity to fit a variety of available equipment
- An entire 16 week sample is included
Overtraining Monitor
- This uses the well researched and widely used Profile of Mood States questionnaire to quantify "stress"
- This monitor automatically calculates, graphs and tracks a swimmer's mood over the season which has a high correlation to overtraining
- Detailed explanations of how to interpret the numbers, what to do with them and references provided
Training Tracker
- Write sets and track yards
- Automatically track types of training for the day, week and season
- Learn and change season to season
Meet Lineup Tracker
- Keep track of your athlete's events in high school meets
- Prevent over entering. Summarize events entered
The Biology of Swimming PDF
- Our entire 324 page picture book in PDF
- Perfect for sharing with the team chapter by chapter or converting to Kindle format
- It's the only non-free download here, but many have asked us to bring it back!
- Click for more details and the hard copy version
Swim Coach's Starter Guide PDF
- Perfect for new coaches looking to make coaching their career
- A resource for head coaches wanting to help improve their assistants
- Directly applicable guidelines, tips and instruction
- Click for more details and the hard copy version
Swimmer's Starter Guide PDF
- Everything you need to know about the swimming world.
- Easy to read, lots of pictures!
- Know what to expect from coaches, teammates, practice and swim meets
- Learn the details behind succeeding in this sport and life!
- Click for more details and the hard copy version
Nutrition Guide PDF
- Brief introduction about the science of nutrition
- Meal planning guide and examples
- 20 weeks of space to write down your plans for the season!
- Learn how to eat during long weekend meets
- Includes printable weekly meal plan chart download-able
- Click for more details and the hard copy version
Coach's Swim Clinic
- Improve your coaching ability with these tips/guidelines:
- Build a team everyone wants to be on
- Managing the Team
- Teaching/training the strokes
- Writing workouts
Website Documents
- Contains 11 essential documents to be posted on your website for all to see and use
- Parent Handbook
- Meet Info Guide
- Swimming Language Terms
- ... etc