A Breaststroke Clinic Sunday, November 5, 2017; 8:30 am–12:30 pm in Oregon City, Oregon This Breaststroke clinic, offered by Oregon Masters Swimming coaches, will help fitness swimmers learn important swimming drills that will improve stroke technique. Learn how to be efficient in the water and enjoy your swimming experience. […]
Training
Fartlek is a type of training where you do long, straight swimming interjected with random bursts of speed. Some of you might also recognize this type of training with “speed play.” Many of us maximize our fitness level with the energy systems: aerobic, anaerobic threshold, and sprinting. During those long […]
Fartlek Training
Over 50 participants were from the community, with 25 swimmers helping teach the classes
Adult Learn-To-Swim — Hood River 2017
1 The Adult Learn to Swim event just concluded its third year in Corvallis. With the support of an annual grant from the Swimming Saves Lives Foundation we found a perfect partnership between USMS, and the Oregon State University Faculty/Staff fitness program. OSU’s commitment to public health and focus on creating […]
A Perfect Partnership – Adult Learn-to-Swim — Corvallis 2017
This April, I taught an Adult Learn-to-Swim class at the Oregon City Municipal Swimming Pool. The class met for a half hour on Monday and Wednesday evenings for four weeks. We had a total of eight classes and I had four adults participate in the class. My first class had […]
Adult Learn-To-Swim — Oregon City 2017
I’m all about optimization… especially in swimming. It’s great when swimmers get the biggest returns possible on the efforts they put into swimming. As such, the first two technical articles I’ve written as the Co-Coaches Chair, have focused on two of the most common and fairly easily fixed technical issues […]
Rotate the Body, but Still the Head!
Most Masters swimmers who have some background in competitive swimming understand the importance of streamlines. However, when I attend meets and practices around the state and country, I am always surprised to see quite a number of swimmers losing time on their starts and turns due to sub-optimal streamlines. For […]
Pick the low-hanging fruit: Streamline!
A message from FaceBook popped up on my computer screen that really got my attention. It was Mark Frost’s celebration of swimming 1 MILLION yards in 2016 (that is 568.18 miles), with the USMS program called “Go The Distance”. The Columbia Gorge Masters team swam the “12 Days of Christmas” […]
One Million Yards?
Practicing good habits while training can be an accurate representation of how we compete. Even when we are tired, we should maintain focus and perform as if we were in a race. If we perform poor, unfocused turns, continuously during practice, this will translate into how we swim our races. […]