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Eric Kenney: Make the Most of Your Swim Training Time
02/11/10: Last week colleague Patrick McCrann wrote an article about why triathletes should NOT swim year round and even further, why it’s only (Read More)

Chuckie V: Hard Swimmin': a Man & Two Women
01/13/10: Well I'll be damned if I didn't have to make a side-trip straight after today's swim workout. I needed to pick up a few Carlos V candy bars (since I had long ago inhaled (Read More)

Chuckie V: Follow-Up To the Swim "Cheat Sheet"
12/18/09: I had a few follow-up comments and questions after my write-up about my little swim "Cheat Sheet". Here's a question regarding the rest intervals after any power or strength (Read More)

Chuckie V: My Swim "Cheat Sheet"
12/10/09: Here's a little swim "cheat sheet" I print up and laminate and then take to the pool with me. It helps remind me how to build swim sets/workouts that are specific to those I'm coaching at the time, whether they're fast kids or slow adults! I've (Read More)

The Corner: Playing The Swim Game
11/05/09: To keep my training fun, I tend to play a range of games. In the winter, I like to play games that center on swimming and running workout frequency. So I thought that I'd share some thoughts on how to organize your own swim camp.

If you are (Read More)

Winter Swim Clinic Series
10/29/09: Join Coach Al, Todd and Lisbeth Kenyon (2009 40-44 Ironman AG world champion) for a comprehensive 1x per month, 5 month long wintertime SWIM WORKSHOP series at Providence College, beginning Sunday, Nov. 8th through Sunday, April (Read More)

Aquaman Announces New Flash System
10/28/09: AQUAMAN ANNOUNCES NEW ZIPPER FOR 2010!

NEW FLASH SYSTEM

The Flash System has two purposes.

1. Fast opening of the wetsuit: The slider on the zipper will open the top Velcro when it gets to the top, which will separate (Read More)

The Corner: How Pros Swim
09/23/09: I had a great question last week:

Saw that you did 26K+ swim meters in a week (not including Saturday or Sunday). Those are huge numbers. Would that be considered a "typical" swim week for an elite (Read More)

Training Bible: Warming-up and surviving the swim
05/06/09: A successful race is more than just training and showing up on raceday. Many factors play a role, including what you do in the brief period before the race starts.

Proper transition set-up and warm-up are essential to having a successful (Read More)

Wetsuit Performance Test Results
03/19/09: Many of us look for that extra race day edge, and seconds and sometimes minutes can be found in the right equipment. (Obviously the BEST equipment we have is ourselves!). Brian Stover, of Accelerate 3 (Read More)

Factor 9 Coaching: Why should we bilateral breathe?
02/20/09: A good question came up the other day when I was working with the squad on swim technique at the pool.

Why should we bilateral breathe?

Bilateral breathing means to switch sides you breathe on every other stroke. I recommend you (Read More)

Jim Vance: Roll-Over to Swim Faster
02/04/09: As complex as it may seem at times, swimming fast is just a matter of displacing yourself past the most amount of water you can, and reducing drag to maximize the distance you go with the displacement. This is simple in idea, but complex in (Read More)

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