strength and training

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  • What flavour swimmer are you are you a Vanilla or a Cherry Garcia swimmer?
  • core strength for swimmers
  • swiss ball training
  • heart rate stuff This is important - if you are serious about your swimming you need to be serious about your heart-rate.

  • Too lazy to do the math? - click here for an excel sheet to do the heart-rate calcs for you.
  • warm-up stuff
  • FUEL; are you thinking about nutrition and feeding the engine or are you running on empty or running on garbage?

  • Food for training and competition What it says on the tin.
  • Peak Performance - Swimming

  • gala advice for swimmers We don't care how many galas you have been to or how fast or clever you think you are you can still read this and learn from it.

  • "No one else's motivation will ever be enough to keep you going, you must have the motivation inside you already. All champions are self-motivated, driven people, they know what they want and they go after it - and they would never, ever bother trying to accomplish something that did not motivate them, not even if their best friend wanted them to do it.