ArmChairSwimmer

Honestly a good coach is not the one who coaches the best athletes. Those athletes are most likely going to improve regardless of coach. A good coach is one that consistently helps develops athletes. That is one who inspires, teaches, and leads!

One of the most stubborn myths that just refuses to duck off and die! 🦆

@FoxNews imagine hiring a ghost writer to not only publish factually incorrect material, since Riley Gaines got 6th ergo 5th sans Lia Thomas, but also failing to even CHECK to see if the article was written in the American english dialect. (Also the NCAA competes in yards not meters…..)

OPINION: I'm an NCAA champion female swimmer and we have to protect girls, women from Biden's destruction of Title IX fxn.ws/3xpPaKe

Happy Friday to everyone except @SwimmingAUS 🤗 Two more weeks until #DuelInThePool! 🔥

Making a new swimmer enrollment packet is probably harder than every essay I had to write in college.

@swimswim48 That name is beautiful🥹

Ppl who swim for The Swim Team being announced as “representing The Swim Team” will forever send me, it has such “bottom text here” vibes

@BretWeinstein Amazing to watch people who say they care so much about women's sports just ignore the best women in the sport in the service of hyperbole.

A coach should fill these needs: 1. Being supported, not thwarted: having input, a voice, and a choice 2. The ability to make progress and to grow 3. Feeling connected to the team and mission, feeling like you belong 4. Have direction, meaning, & purpose scienceofrunning.com/2022/06/how-to…

The ✨thrill✨ of efficiency

12 tips when coaching teenagers. A thread. 1. Resist the temptation too get serious too soon. There's no need to drastically transform the coaching philosophy. Some reasons for sports drop out include: A. Change of coach B. Change of coaching philosophy C. Too competitive

IM training confuses me. Growing up all we did was swim lots of 200IMs or 100 IM. That’s boring and I question the efficacy of it. So are aerobic adaptations unique to each stroke? If so wouldn’t it be better to train separately and have “rehearsal” training sessions?

Our level of control changes how we respond to stress. When we lack control, our stress spikes. When we have a sense that we can impact the situation, our cortisol response is dampened

@swimswim48 @PedestrianKatie 😂 I was not expecting that

@PedestrianKatie Which is why I’m announcing my new addition to the Olympics: the 4x800 free relay, brought to you by 12 commercial cuts and one exasperated looking Ledecky

Wondering why US women’s sprinting has hit a rough patch then remembering my coach only let girls do the 50 free occasionally because it was “too easy” of an event for us, but threw guys in it all the time whenever he got frustrated by them messing up longer race strategies

@swimswim48 B r u h. Thats straight up negligent. There should 100% be a return to play plan to keep you safe.

@ArmChairSwimmer Absolutely this, I had a lot of pressure to return to full yardage workouts shortly after my first shoulder injury and it was incredibly detrimental

If injury’s occur due to mileage and there’s pressure to ignore it…that’s a problem that needs to be addressed

Also, if you have better swimming economy then you also have better endurance 🤔

Coaches need to model swimming after skill-based sports and not cyclical ones. Swimming more does not necessarily increase an athlete’s swimming economy; skill does.

Healthy Swimmers Are More Injured Than Hurt Baseball Players! is.gd/E3yPWU #swimming #peformance

@sato_daiki So I just realized it’s the “all that yardage — a look back” article by Doc Consilman so my comment might be blasphemous🫣. He poses the question of “building endurance by doing nothing but a series of sprints” and states he personally failed. There are a few logical leaps here.

@ArmChairSwimmer What article and what training modality?

Omg the author of this article on swim training just stated “I doubt it because I tried it about 25 years ago with disastrous results” 🚩🚩🚩🚩. Personal anecdote is not evidence!! If you talk about research then you also have to consider the implementation of the training 😫😫

I’m reading an ASCA article from 2008 and the author just referred to “high quality or more intense practice methods” as anaerobic training. Bruh that’s just straight up FALSE. Physiologic adaptations occur at the cellular level so 60x25 All Out with a 1:4 W2R ratio is aerobic!!