It is precisely about children and their future !

I passed the professional exam for the functional training license with the highest marks. A year ago, I was invited to help as an expert at a swimming school due to the lack of experts in the field of swimming. I was promised a gradual increase in income and the opportunity to attend seminars, obtain additional licenses, and advance in this field. Since functional training is essentially movement training, I quickly got into the subject and, by following the work of other trainers and learning from the Internet, I gained a decent amount of knowledge in this field. I studied the latest developments very carefully and read more than fifty studies on swimming training to see the bigger picture from all possible angles. That is how I educated myself. I can say that I have overcome the outdated methodology and programs established in many swimming schools due to a lack of ambition, disinterest, and laziness in learning in this field.

Although I have presented a lot of important things here to make them visible, this is only a small part of the whole story of swimming training.

If I told you everything here, I wouldn't be a coach. However, I had to leave out the most important thing because it is my own capital, so now the main magic in swimming training is my great quality.

Competitive swimming is a challenging sport that requires a winning mentality, relentless determination, dedication, and discipline. To improve and progress, you need a well-structured, comprehensive, and effective competitive swimming training plan.

Before diving into the details of specific training, it is crucial to understand the different aspects of competitive swimming training. Many coaches overlook this as an important consideration.

Every swimmer is unique, as are their training needs and training methods. Some may excel in sprints, while others may be distance specialists. Your training plan should be tailored to their unique strengths, weaknesses, and, most importantly, their goals.

My goal is to create the coaching magic that creates swimming champions.

Strength, Speed, and Power

The Key Elements: Strength, speed, and power are three vital components in swimming. Strength refers to the force you can exert per unit area. Speed ​​is how quickly you can accomplish something. Power is the ability to exert as much force (power) in as little time as possible (speed). Balancing these three elements will help you become more powerful in the water, allowing you to swim faster and more efficiently. If you don’t know these basic concepts and how to achieve them, it’s best to leave it to those who do!

Traditional vs. Progressive Swim Training

Traditionally, swim training programs have tended to focus on high-volume, yardage-based programs, with swimmers enduring long, aerobic workouts. However, a newer “less is more” strategy has emerged, which focuses on highly specific race-pace workouts and maximal effort with short rest periods. This approach aims to train swimmers to maintain the same speed and stroke mechanics they would maintain in a race. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages, and the choice between the two depends on the swimmer's individual needs, goals, and response to training.

If you want to swim explosively fast and sprint through the water, traditional training is a complete failure. You must train to increase the speed and power of your punches progressively, and you can only do this through neurological muscle treatment. If you are a marathon runner in the water, then you train traditionally, where you physiologically increase your endurance by swimming long distances.

The distance and break, as well as the method of training and periodization, are strictly individual, but some parameters are universal, such as the length and structure of training during the weekend. This is exactly the magic that when you turn it on properly, you can see incredible progress in your swimmers that you train.

It is very difficult for me to watch very talented children, for whom I have already prepared adequate training for the next six months, and whom my colleagues rudely transferred to another group without consulting or asking me anything. It is difficult now to watch them swim meaningless exercises, creating such unstoppable, ultimately harmful effects, as almost all swimmers in all groups here do.

It is absurd to talk about politicized life here again.

Especially if it is about work or sports, and the greatest fear is the success of others, because today, millions speak out and rebel against such a way of thinking. I feel sorry for children who have all the predispositions to be top swimmers.

In the oldest groups, it is clearly visible what a chronic problem is and how it is best to solve it immediately, while there is still time, at the very beginning, while it does not yet exist.

Look, I will analyze just one of several mistakes that everyone makes in the later stages, which cause them a lot of problems and hinder the development of greater speed and efficiency in arm rowing. It is about using a swimming board and the exercises with the boards themselves that many people use without thinking about the fact that as the swimmer develops, some of these exercises must be transformed because they are only suitable for beginners. If they are done later, they are very harmful and create fatal mistakes in swimming, which then does not have maximum efficiency and can even lead to premature stagnation in speed. Using several exercises on the board that I see every day at all ages definitely causes irreparable damage to all local swimmers because the wrong movement that all children do here, down to the oldest, is present in everyone without exception. The exercise with the crawl board, which almost all coaches do here without exception, is alternating strokes with the left and right hands. This exercise is done very often and lasts for months and years.

Because of this, the entire technique has a very detrimental effect on swimming because the swimmer loses a significant part of the energy that propels him through the water. The same story is true with several other exercises with the board, such as the kick exercise.

I have drawn the attention of the coaches to this anomaly, which is fatal for future competitors, many times, but my words seem to pass by my fellow coaches, not taking any of my observations seriously.

Given the current social situation, my status in this team is also very questionable, but you can't help but think how many more children will be deprived of top achievements due to sick vanity and partocratic idiopathic discrimination.

I think the only shortage of personnel in this area is that I am still here as a coach.

The money I receive is ridiculously small, but practical work means a lot to me, so I am determined to persevere. Although I have a completely different understanding and will always try to help these children with my knowledge, now and here I must remain restrained, as in all other stories, and let this story go into its mediocrity and drown in the mistakes that are considered the most normal here, although modern training and swimming have long since overcome such methodology and detected these mistakes as a major problem in swimming training.

This is not on the internet, but it is clearly visible in the programs that top swimmers are not treated with these exercises on the board after only a few months of training.

Thanks to this misunderstanding and my bad experience, I developed the most effective method and exercise for correcting these mistakes, which at one consultation a representative coach from a competitive swimming school called kayak swimming. Pictorially and very accurately said.

Freestyle champions, however, never swim this way, which speaks for itself.

Since no one here understands how important proper periodization and gradual progression of exercises are for achieving top technique. Since no one here understands how important dry training is for stroke strength and swimming speed. That you can't physiologically improve these things. How important is proper warm-up, coordination development, and especially stretching. And then there's the talk about purivat and lactic acid and the cor-cor cycle. Then there's proper nutrition and individual development of motivation through training, and a lot of finesse...

Then you realize that your colleagues clearly see that your views on training are much broader and that with your coaching skills you have created a future champion, whom they could never create in their own way, and that because of this you will experience being discredited and torn apart in the process of methodical progress in swimming so that they do not appear incompetent.

Complete absurdity because it is in the interest of every swimming school and everyone who belongs to it to have the best swimmers.

Translated into life, it is precisely because of this established practice in all spheres of life that millions of people are protesting in the streets.

It is precisely about children and their future!