by Kenny | May 27, 2015 | Coaching, Personal Coaching, Swim Coach, Swimming Cross Training, Swimming Science
I just read the Training and Technique article in the most recent issue of Swimmer magazine (May – June 2015, Vol. 11, No. 3. Page 12.), “The Dryland Difference, Should I Lift Weights Before or After Swimming? Optimal timing for drylands and swim...
by Kenny | Dec 15, 2014 | Coaching, Personal Coaching, Swim Coach, Swimming Science
Our Swim Coaches Reverse the Pareto Principle and Apply it to Swimming The Pareto Principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the...
by Kenny | Dec 15, 2014 | Coaching, Personal Coaching, Swim Coach, Swimming Science
Reversing the Pareto Principle and Applying it to Swimming The Pareto Principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. At One...
by Kenny | Mar 12, 2014 | Coaching, Swimming Lessons, Swimming Science
I recently read an article on head position from The Race Club, by Gary Hall Sr., in which Mr. Hall discusses the head position while swimming freestyle. He mentions both looking forward and looking down as being correct, depending on the style of freestyle you might...
by Kenny | Mar 10, 2014 | Coaching, Swimming Cross Training, Swimming Science
“Abs” – The Muscles that Surround the Abdomen “In every weight room in all the countries of the world since the dawn of training with weights, the single biggest distraction from the actual task at hand has been abs. Or rather, an obsession...
by Kenny | Feb 28, 2014 | Personal Coaching, Swim Coach, Swimming Lessons, Swimming Science
Training Zones Revisited “The purpose of this paper will be to describe a different interpretation of training zones, one that is based on training the three muscle fiber types. The physiological rationale for this theory was presented in an earlier paper. This...