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Coaching high school swim teams can be a challenging task. One way to make it easier is to use a season training plan for swimemrs. A season training plan provides ways to maintain a swimming program direction of continued development, forecast and prevent potential difficulties from occurring, forecast weaknesses, and establish a way to overcome those weaknesses. Let's take a look at some ways to put together a season training plan for a high school swim team.
Coaching a high school swim team can be a challenging task. One way to make it easier is to use a season training plan. A season training plan provides ways to maintain a swimming program direction of continued development, forecast and prevent potential difficulties from occurring, forecast weaknesses, and establish a way to overcome those weaknesses. Let's take a look at some ways to put together a season training plan for a high school swim team.
Designing and implementing a season plan should take into account the current level of the athletes, the resources available, the previous season, and the desired outcome at the end of the current season.
A form of training which is similar to interval training in which there are work-rest intervals. However, unlike interval training, the work-rest intervals are not measure by time but how the body feels.
Coach Mike Chasson outlines his theories on distance training; from the
ASCA.
Training plans evolve from general objectives through a series of stages to the most specific objectives. Each level of planning should fit into the next, providing a framework for key program decisions.
Sports Coach explains how to meet the objective of endurance training, the development of the energy production system(s) to meet the demands of the event.
Gordon and Prilutsky offer a concrete way to design interval sets; from Parametrix.
David Pyne, Ph.D. explains some of the Australian distance training program; From ASCA.
Sports Coach's primer on designing a training plan offers good information for general planning considerations for training any age or ability swimmer.
Aimed at runners, this article from Sports Coach can be adapted to swimmers, too.
Coach Mike Bottom discusses 5 approaches to sprinting; From Net Swimmer.
A few tips on using rate and distance per stroke in training; From Net Swimmer.
A basic outline of how to plan a single workout, from The Complete Book of Swimming by Dr. Phillip Whitten.
A collection of zipped and self-extracting files made from presentations on swimming training.
Dr. Ralph Richards discusses the science behind proper training to increase aerobic capacity.
Swimmers, would you like to receive a set of swimming workouts each week to help you plan your practices? These workouts are designed to help your swim training, to build fitness, and to give you some variety in your exercise regimine.
