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This blog has always been and will continue to be a FREE resource for the global coaching community. As for many coaches, the COVID-19 has had a significant negative financial impact for my family.

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Welcome to the Swimming Wizard Blog

The purpose of this blog is to be a vehicle for the sharing of ideas among swimming coaches so that we can all get better at doing the job we love.

– Ryan Woodruff, Swimming Wizard Editor and Head Coach of the Lynchburg (Virginia) YMCA

Workouts, sets, and training ideas are always welcome at swimmingwizard@gmail.com

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IM Build-up Set. LCM.
Blasting Buckets and Sox. LCM. This set makes use of the 12m diving well that sits alongside the 50m lanes we use. In order to maximize our space with our entire team practicing at once, we occasionally use it this way. For ease of communication, we call one width of the diving well a “25.”
Fired-up Sprints. We did this set recently to work on our top-end speed. We used our pace cards to determine our goal times for the 35m sprints. Resisted sprints and dryland exercises helped get all motor units activated for the 35s.
Fly, Back, and Underwaters with Calvert Aquatics Club and Coach Jon Beyer
Long course Race Pace with @lynchburg_y_swimming
Sprint Pre-set and 200s Test with @lynchburg_y_swimming . This is a recent practice of ours in its entirety (minus the dryland, which was part of the three hours).
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