Aquatic professionals have a love hate relationship with lap swimmers. They show up at 5am thirty minutes before the pool opens. When you’re covering the morning shift for a guard that called in the night before at 11pm you’re not happy to see their expectant faces and scowls when you rub the sleep from your … Read more
Question of the Day: What is today’s Date?Correct = Do 20 jumpsWrong = Do 20 jumps and 10 situps. What you need for today:1) Kickboard2) Fins3) Waterbottle (if you have one)4) Bravery.IF you miss an interval, a 20, or a length, then you need to pay 2 pushups and 2 situps for each one missed. … Read more
Do all things as a group. Announce the activity, give an example and have them do it on their own or with you for support. Be confident. They should know most of these things. Sit on the side, and slide in. The child sits on the side of the pool and the parent gets in … Read more
Warmup 100 IM Kick100 BK K2 x 25 Position 11 Question of the Day: Is chocolate milk a good choice to drink immediately after swim practice? https://www.swimmingscience.net/is-chocolate-milk-an-adequate-recovery-aid-for-swimmers/ Correct = 50 CHWrong = 50 FLY K no board.4 x 25 on 1:00 FREEStreamline to the flags, make the interval, finish by touching the wall. Split up … Read more
Dryland Activities: Question of the Day: How many yards are in a 500 yard freestyle?Correct = 5 jumps with high knees.Wrong = 5 jumps with high knees and a 30 second plank. Warmup in water: 100 IM Kick2 x 25 position 11.Review 3 things for Streamline before first 25.1) Lock your thumb.2) Squeeze your ears … Read more
You can create fun and effective swim lesson plans with some basic tools, but if you want to really increase your game, improve your program and get the most out of your swim lessons and developmental swim practices the best thing to do is join the Developmental Swim Practice subscription so you can mix and … Read more
3 x SL + 3 Zombie FREE Take three crusty, slow, jerking, hungry for brains freestyle strokes like a starving zombie. Move too fast and your arms will fall off, or maybe you’ll lose a leg. 3 x SL + 3 Skeleton BK You’re all bones! Have someone move your arms for you.Drag a friend … Read more
I’ve always felt that one of the biggest impediment to using technology on the pool deck was getting it to work quickly. swimminglessonsideas.com has been an excellent resource and tool I frequent when I’m running swim lessons or training new staff. Recently I purchased a television and mounted it on wheels so that I could … Read more
I work with a lot of 15 and 16 year olds that are starting a job for the first time. They are enthusiastic, energetic, but don’t always know what to do, and can often feel a strong sense of anxiety and uncertainty when they are presented with new things. One of the biggest struggles I … Read more
I recently published the book, “How to create fun and effective Developmental swim practices.” I thought I could show you exactly how I write practices on a daily basis. It is super easy from my end and I’m curious if any would like to have access to the same bank of skills and software on … Read more
This weekend we had our first swim lessons of the fall season. Septemeber and October are extremely difficult times of the year. If you have a large high school staff then many of your employees are likely burned out from the summer by the end of the year work and struggle to fully staff you … Read more
When you do streamline like a thousand times, a hundred thousand, then you forget that it can be difficult for beginners to do well. I work with kids that are transitioning from swim lessons into swim team. They don’t know how to push off in streamline. What comes naturally for me, now, is totally foreign … Read more
1 x 25 Backstroke Kick get in and go Question of the Day: Why are there flags above the pool?Y= 1 jump off blocksN = One time lay on the bottom of the pool on your back Challenge: Kick in water over head with both arms above water in position 11 for 3 seconds. And … Read more
Introduce the “Flow” Dryland Yoga Flow for Swimmers: Created with Microsoft Fresh Paint PlankChaturangaPlankDown DogForward Fold / Lazy PuppetSoldierStreamline111 Freeother arm FreeBoth for butterflyRepeat. Set up your lane 1st person starts in the lane’s corner. Everyone else lines up along the lane line. #1 pushes off, does their activity, then moves over. Returns to the … Read more
Warmup A woman swimmer streamlines under water at the start of a race. What are the 3 things for streamline we’re working on? 1) Lock Thumb 2) Look Down 3) Squeeze Ears with elbows Standing on Deck, demonstrate and say it. https://videopress.com/v/RlDr1loj?muted=true&persistVolume=false&preloadContent=metadata Jump in and run or swim to 1/2 way in Mini lane as … Read more
Summer is about to finish most swim professionals, aquatic professionals, are wrapping up their summer outdoor programs in the United States. That means we are struggling to find staff after our college workers had gone back to school and our high school staff is left covering the same pools with fewer people and an additional … Read more
