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Swim Coach at Tennessee Aquatics | Remote Strength Coach| Motor Learning Consulting 1:1 coaching info.coachjacklittle @gmail .com “Sprint”

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Jack Little

1 month

Sprint Swimming Program is LIVE. First we got a FREE 3-DAY taste of it. If you’re interested or on the fence give it a try Then…step into the⚡️Speed Track. Pumped about this after seeing so many results from the 16-week track. Comment “Speed” I’ll DM you the FREE Program

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Jack Little

8 months

Have your swimmers watch this! 🏊 Great example of an open turn by Leon Marchand. 1. Gets off the wall fast 2. Doesn’t waste time planting the feet 3. “Spins” rather than going “up and back” A few of many key points I think can be useful to coaches and athletes!

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2 months

Caleb Dressel Tokyo 2021 50 Free (Slowed to .75x speed) Technical Points: 💥 Early Wrist Flexion that pulls the water back 💥 Deep Pull 💥 Large Capacity for thoracic mobility 💥 Initial Counter Rotation into the Forward Hip (There’s a BIG Emphasis here in my training…

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Adam Peaty - 100 BR - 2024 British Olympic Trials 57.94 [ 26.80 + 31.14 ] 💥 Fluid + Smooth Body Dolphin 💥 Big Outsweep 💥 Pulling Water Back 💥 Swoop the hands up 💥 Fierce Bodyline 💥 Well-Timed Kick right after the “shoot”

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Jack Little

7 months

16-Week Swimming Sprint Program. ✅ Progressive Levels (Int ➡️Adv) ✅ Dialed in Focus for each Session ✅ Competition Prep OR General Sprinting Improvement ✅ Masters/Triathlon/Swimmers welcome Early release starts now! Comment “Sprint” OR DM me for details 🏊‍♂️

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9 months

What’s the key to swimming fast? Training fast. To train fast, you have to minimize fatigue. As @pntrack says: Tired is the enemy, not the goal. Train the nervous system to perform. Train to change the nervous system = thicker myelin sheaths to more quickly transmit signals.

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6 months

First 2024 Practice 👌🏽

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24x25 @ 100 Pace vs. 3 Rounds [R2: @ :30 R3: @ :25] 2x25 @ 100 Rhythm holding paddles :35 2x25 @ 100 pace @ 100 tempo :35 2x25 @ 100 pace breathing every 4 :35 2x25 @ 100 pace :35 Which makes you better at a 100?

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Ryan Murphy - 200 Backstroke 2023 Nationals 💥 almost 15m off of 4th wall 💥 Hand Faces other side of the pool** 💥 Great Contralateral Rotation into the opposite leg 💥 Floppy Feet + Fluid Kicking 💥Continuous stroke and big water grab right at the beginning *obviously lots…

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Nic Fink - 100 Breaststroke 💥 Find the Line 💥 Pushes Water Backwards 💥 Finishes with the swoop of the feet & upward swoop of the legs 💥 Body Dolphin that rides the wave into the glide 💥Not worried about “elbow your brother/ call your mother”…he just GETS OFF the wall!

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Jack Little

8 months

I like the idea of a top 10 board in addition to a record board for college swimming. Imagine being a freshman staring down the chance to mark yourself down in a schools history…. A lot more likely you’ll perform better than if there’s one record that seems out of reach.

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2 months

7 reasons why you should practice force absorption with your athlete: 🧵

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Jack Little

7 months

Performance-Driven Athletics: Rethinking Training Philosophies

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2 months

Sprint Revolution= Speed Distance Revolution = Endurance The REAL revolution is the Performance Revolution Train Intentionally to Race. Simply, do stuff that matters. Perform ⚡️

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3 months

At Arizona State in 2018 I knew I was apart of a winning team.... It was just a matter of time. The culture fostered excellence. Lived and breathed THE PROCESS. You couldn't help but strive to be better in that environment. 6 years later = National Champs

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2 months

7 Principles I wish I knew earlier as a swimmer 🧵🏊:

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15 days

1. Freaking awesome comradery here and amazing final shot at trials. 2. Racing makes you better at racing. 15x in 3 weeks?? Every time you learn how to swim the 50 slightly better....

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Herbie Behm

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Leo Roden raced the 50 free 15x in the last 3 weeks. Dropped from 23.78 to 22.53 this season to make Olympic Trials on the last possible day. The ending is what this sport is all about.

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Pan Zhanle - 100 Free WR @ Worlds 💥 Dives into Turn 💥 Pushes off UNDER the wake 💥 5 dolphin kicks 💥 Rhythmic kick on top of the water 💥 Pushes the Water Backwards the whole time ⚡️ High elbow ⚡️ Hand Pointed toward the wall behind him

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Summer McIntosh - World Record (again) at Canadian Trials. 400 IM 💥 Moves Forward 💥 Anchored into the water 💥 Big Powerful Strokes 💥 Controls the Race 💥 Keeps in her own Lane ⚡️ Great example of Mental and Physical Toughness + Great Preparation. Excited for the Summer 😎

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Jack Little

8 months

Louisville vs. Tennessee SUITED.

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9 months

Swimming Strength Saturday ⚡️ The most obvious place for the weight room is during the start. Keys for Start Strength: 1. Tense Ankles (so you can use your power). 2. Ability to produce FORCE from the legs. 3. Powerful Glutes and fast-twitch developed “push” muscles.

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Jack Little

7 months

5 Ways to Maximize Sprint training in the pool: ✅ Always couple with skill development ✅ More rest during workouts ✅ Use short, MAX effort bursts ✅Less Volume, Greater Intensity ✅Use Over-Speed to develop the ability to faster

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2 months

Speed Endurance Set 1x25 Max Speed Dive 1:00 2x25 100 pace to feet :30 Rest 3-7 minutes x 4-8 sets

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Jack Little

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Olympic Trials 2024

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Jack Little

2 months

IM set with some aspects of learning better freestyle incorporated: 200 IM (Descend 1-3) 8x25 Free Band 150 Fly/Back/Breast (R2: back/breast/free. RD3: Breast/Free/Free) Strong 4x50 Free Buoy at ankles 100 Fly / Back (R2: Back/Breast. R3: Breast/Free) Strong 8x25 Free…

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Jack Little

10 months

Swimming Strength Saturday 🏋️ Increase POWER and SPEED by lightening the load on our our athletes. Will Cleaning 225# or squatting 300# really necessary for success in the pool? It MAY not hurt. Train FAST in the weight room to be FAST out of the weight room.

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2 months

Want endurance? Swim more. There’s no shortcuts but it’s just more volume intentionally: 4x300 Descend to 80% effort 4x50 Stroke Count + Descend Time 4x200 Descend to 85% effort 4x50 Same Time as #4 (⬇️stroke count) 4x300 Ascend 85% to 70% effort 4x50 same Stroke count/ Time as…

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Jack Little

8 months

How to do a fly turn: DON’T elbow your brother and call your mother… Just Turn around and GO!

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Jack Little

3 months

No one deserves it more. Congrats @SirHerb_the3rd ! Let’s Go! Can’t wait to watch ASU continue the legacy 💪🏽 @ASUSwimDive

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2 months

This is my reflection of what I learned from my time at Arizona State 2 years before winning an NCAA title + Research I’ve seen on developing expert teams.

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Cramping is a sign to get stronger in that area not avoid it. When your athletes are cramping it’s a CNS overfiring. Nervous system signals to your cells to contract so much it induces tetanus ( a sustained contraction). Get stronger here…..Don’t avoid those movements.

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8 months

Language can be a powerful tool. Here why: “4x50 MAX speed!” VS. “4x50 As hard as you can go” Think about the different emotions the language invokes in you. I want my athletes to be fast, I don’t want it to be hard for the sake of being hard!

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Jack Little

3 months

Cut to #1 😈

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Kyle Sockwell

3 months

From having the program cut in 2008 to winning the National Championship in 2024. What a story.

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If it's HIGH Performance you want... then you must train at that level. You want better underwaters? Work on them. Better Dives? Work on them. Better Endurance? Work on it. Speed? Got to go fast. Put in the work to have the capacity. It's unbelievably simple yet always…

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Jack Little

6 months

Last practice of 2023!

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2 months

Fly Work: 2 Rounds (round 2 with fins) 4x50 Snorkel + Dolphin kick in body line 4x50 Snorkel + Single Arm Fly 4x25 Flutter kick fly no breath 4x25 Fly breathe every 3

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Jack Little

4 months

Why do athletes love their sport? 🏊 💡 There is typically a motive for an athlete beginning and continuing a sport such as: Social Outlet and Friends Fun Getting Better Winning When an athlete burns out or thinks about walking away form the sport. They have lost…

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Jack Little

10 months

Connection Driven Work for Freestyle ⚡️Makes sense with our bodies biomechanics tendencies 🔅Passes the Eye test (sport driven approach) 🔑I love doing this: Connect ➡️ right into a pool session @leon_marchand 🏊‍♂️

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7 months

How does the world not think swimming is the coolest sport on the planet? By how fast records are coming down, it appears to be a sport in its infancy. The best is yet to come 😤 Fastest people in water on the planet….

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2 months

Peak Performance > Peak Fitness Yes both matter. Without one you can’t have the other. But if you’re not performing, it’s not always a fitness issue it’s a performance issue. Train performance.

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Breaststroke Pullout practice / timing practice: 8x25 4 pulls + 1 pullout 3 pulls + 1 pullout 2 pulls + 1 pullout 1 pulls + 1 pullout 8x25 4 Kicks + 1 pullout 3 kicks + 1 pullout 2 kicks + 1 pullout 1 kicks + 1 pullout

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Jack Little

7 months

1:41.78 200 Fly Martin Espernberger, from Tennessee Look at this turn! Spins and does it quickly. (Lane 4, middle of screen)

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2 months

Find ways to disrupt your athletes. This is where learning happens. Make weird intervals. Add constraints. Change the environment. If it’s always the same why do expect them to perform differently?

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3 months

PAC-12 Throwback in honor of the last last day of PAC-12’s 😈

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8 months

4:14.34. 500 Free. In a duel meet. Guess who? A few years ago, no one would’ve thought these kind of times would happen in a duel meet. I still don’t think you can look over look a 4:18 in-season swim by Julian Hill or a 4:17 in-season by Kyle Ponsler.

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18 days

If you want to be better training the race, then have your athletes race with constraints. "You must do X number of dolphin kicks" or With a tempo trainer. With a 6 beat kick. With a Tech Suit. With "meet music". Meaningful competition.....etc.

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If I have an athlete that is terrible at kicking it seems like the first conclusion to jump to is: more conditioning not strong enough they're not trying (or my least favorite) they must have bad genetics I don't often hear someone think : They must not be good at the skill…

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5 months

Strength TAPER Week. Sharpen the Blade without Fatigue. 🔪 🏊‍♂️ 💥 Fast & Explosive 💧 Lots of Rest 15-20 min maximum. In and out for an early bedtime.

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2 months

Especially for kids under 16 I believe teaching athleticism is far more important than specific training for a sport. Swimming is training for swimming (ironically enough). The weight room covers the basic athletic skills. Better athletes make better athletes. This movement…

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2 months

1x25 on 1:00 Fast 1x50 on 2:00 Fast x 2 sets 100 EZ Rd1: Fins and Paddles (except breast) Rd2: no equip x 3 sets Round 1: Fly Round 2: Back Round 3: Breast

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7 months

1:52.59 Alex Walsh 200 IM 😳

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7 months

Amazing. Proud alumni 🫡

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8 months

From NCAAs this last year (eye guesstimate here): Men’s 500 free = 41% underwater Women’s 500 free = 34% underwater Such a great opportunity to teach kids this skill as young as possible. How will underwater improve in the next 10 years? 🤔

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2 months

Preparation for a 100 free might look like: Warm up + 20 minutes passively rest DIVE: 1x100 off the block +20 min mix of active/passive rest DIVE: 2x75 off the block on 10:00 with active rest +10 min passive rest DIVE: 1x75 on 1:00 + 50 on 1:00 Cooldown [emphasize tech…

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But when you say: “Calm down” “No pressure” “It’s all mental” It doesn’t help. Practically it helps to train them in those skills. For example. I think coaches often have their athletes race tired but what about racing with lots of rest. With the extra energy it’s tough to…

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Speed Set: 2x15m MAX Speed Free from float 1x25 Dive Fly MAX Speed 1x50 ez 1x50 Strong Back/Breast (crossover emphasis) 1x20 Free MAX Speed to Finish

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9 months

Fast Friday! 💨 Some Breaststroke work this morning! Teaching Patience in the stroke. then let: Patience TRANSFER to Speed! 85% is the money effort for going fast. The better you get at that then you can leak in more effort over time. Speed happens in the spaces.

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Absolute Strength - Strength Speed - Speed Strength - Speed. Weight room progression. Raw power is useful only if it can be transferred. Finding progressions to do that with is important. You have to start where the person is. That’s where intentional and individual…

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7 months

Rest Days! I’m a big believer in rest days. I wasn’t always. Once, I took nearly 365 days without one day off. It left me with: 1. Plateau’s in Performance 2. Sickness (really bad cold/flu combo) 3. Rib issues (from this sickness and lack of recovery) 4. Lack of identity…

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9 months

Giving swimmers 2-3min of SILENT breath-work provides a HUGE separation b/t “PHYSICAL STRESS” and “REST & RECOVERY”. 2 minutes as slow as possible through the nose 2 minutes : 4s inhale / 6s exhale 1 minute: 4s inhale / pause / 6s exhale ( hold & Let go of negative emotion.)

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30 days

Starting to Merge MAX Speed with Race-Relevant Volume and Speed. 2 Rounds: 3x50 2:00 As Fast As Possible (1 Round can be Fly/Bk/Br) 250 ez 10:00

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20 days

Performance driven approaches are 1. More fun 2. Increase Effort 3. More applicable to Racing

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2 months

Beautiful Race Practice!

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Mitochondria House 🍃

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🏎️💨FAST FRIDAY🏎️💨 Broken Efforts Race Sim 🧩 🏊🏼‍♂️ Activation 🥵 Meet Warmup Suit-Up 🚀 RACE 🏎️ 75 OTB + 10s Rest + 25 Push 10 min swim-Off 50 OTB + 10s rest + 50 push 10 min Swim-off 25 OTB + 10s rest + 75 push 10 min swim-off 25 OTB + 10s rest + 3x25 on :25

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Jack Little

8 months

41.00 🤯. Still almost 6 months until the big showdown Fastest year of swimming in the NCAA is definitely coming down the pipeline

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Kyle Sockwell

8 months

Notre Dame's Chris Guiliano split 41.00 in the 100 freestyle anchoring the 400 Medley Relay earlier tonight by the way. It's October. This is sick. Okay. That's all for tonight.

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8 months

12xRacks 1- fast kick 1- fast swim (light) 12xRacks 1-Heavy Swim 1-Light Fast 6x50 Fins and Paddles - Start 12 Strokes Max Speed + cruise

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1 month

Have you found a drill or constraint that works well for you? This is a great learning tool but when used too many times it results in the same solutions. If I give you a math problem say: 72x54 = X …. You have to work to solve it. But if I keep giving it to you over and…

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3 months

Set of the day 🏊‍♂️

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2 months

There’s a 1000 different minute details that need to be targeted in swimming to induce change. How can we possibly address them all? Using research-backed motor learning approaches that aren’t trying to solve specific problems but reach a specific outcome. Maybe 1000 things…

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Jack Little

17 days

Racing is the most potent form of practice. We must practice how we race. But we must practice racing to improve racing. I will send a FREE PDF: 1. Like this tweet. 2. DM/COMMENT "RACE"

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2 months

Kicking is valuable as a tool. But there isn’t enough transfer to swimming for that to be the only time it’s worked on. What’s more valuable is improving the kick while swimming. In a race, if you notice you’re having trouble maintaining a kick, Swim while maintaining a kick…

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How to Teach Freestyle Timing and Propulsion Example Set. 3 Rounds (R1: Parachute R2: Paddles R3: no equip): 4x25 Straight arm freestyle + (R1: breathe every stroke, R2: breathe every other R3: no breathing) 2x25 head up freestyle fast 4x50 Swim + snorkel

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Jack Little

9 months

Training for Sports is more than just Heat Rate or metabolism. SKILL is the foundation for which all the “science” sits. Doesn’t matter how great your Krebs cycle is if you have faulty mechanics. Take time to build the base so your athletes can go the distance in sport!

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2 months

Volume and intensity are inversely correlated. When designing sets to increase intensity stop also increasing volume. If you are trying to achieve X amount of yards per week in an intense set you’re missing the point from a physiological perspective Example: 4x100 fast…

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Strength in Swimming Minimum threshold of Strength. Is there such a thing as too strong? Maybe. For certain, you have to be STRONG ENOUGH. Then the question is can you translate that strength into the skill effectively? What’s your limiter strength or skill ? If it’s…

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If you are not succeeding look at your environment. Is your environment succeeding? The old adage, "If you have 4 broke friends you'll be the 5th." applies here. Create an environment that reflects who you want to be. If you can't change the people change what you can.

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Racing is the best way to train racing.

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Sprinting is a high quality system.⚡️ Endurance is a high volume system.🏊‍♂️ Meet in the middle for all things in between.💥 BUT if you want to improve the middle you must develop both end of the spectrum. You want to endure longer in the 1650? You’ve got to swim. A lot. You…

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Breathing is important for every athletic endeavor in its own respects. I like to break up breathing into two categories: 1. Biomechanics 2. Physiology Both are fascinating but #2 is typically focused on much more than #1 Mechanics are difficult however. This is because…

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Learning the Strokes. Using a multitude of constraints, random practice, and contextual interference to produce the highest learning outcomes. The brain works harder = learns better.

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Doing the same thing over and over again to get better INTUITIVELY sounds great. 🧠 But there's one issue: the brain doesn't learn that way. The brain is trying to do the least amount of work possible. Present the same problems = get the same solutions. Make the skill more…

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2 months

Whiteboard madness for dryland for my swimmers this week

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Suit up Saturday 🚀🚀 “Use it or lose it” - @SirHerb_the3rd Broken 200s Broken 100s Push back-end 50s 8x25 Max Speed ⚡️ 1️⃣ Dive -fins on :30 2️⃣ Push -No Fin on 1:00 3️⃣ Dive -No Fins on :30 4️⃣-7️⃣ Push on :25 8️⃣ From flip no breath 🤐

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2 Rounds (Round 2 with Fins): 4x25 body line dolphin kick 4x25 Fly Swim 4x :20 vertical kick desc 1-4 2x50 fly swim 4x50 3R3L3Both 4x25 Fly Swim Desc 1-4

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Ankle Stiffness = key for starts and turns. The ankles filter the flow of Power and Force Production. Will you get 60% or 90% of the power you produce? The ankles decide. #pursuitofbetter #swimmingstrength

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1:54.62 Wang Shun 200 IM to win at the Asian Games! 4th Man under 1:55! Paris is gearing up for an exciting race in this event 😏 ⚡️Check out is leg power and his Body-line while he cuts through the water!

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Exceptional athletes = Really good at holding an extrinsic focus Exceptional Coaches = Really good at holding an intrinsic focus This is why: Exceptional athletes ≠ Exceptional Coaches Follow, like, repost if your enjoying Motor Learning Content!

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Jack Little

9 months

Two great articles on External Focus of Attention. The theory is that internal focus interferes with naturally self organizing motor system Telling your athletes to focus on their body what they’re doing can have no effect or even harm learning. Find ways to narrow focus away.

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How might want to be really good at underwaters but are you doing what it takes to make it happen? It's simple. Do them often, in as many different ways as possible.

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The fastest way to get faster is to have ⬆️⬆️Efficiency. Meaning Learning how to be efficient is REALLY important. Meaning that being able to TEACH efficiency is EVEN MORE important Here’s a couple ways you can improve your coaching: 🧵

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Doesn’t matter how much experience you have or how much time you’re clocking in for your training. It’s the quality of those hours that count instead of the amount. I’ve heard coming to practice is the starting line. I disagree. It’s not the starting line. You haven’t even…

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Underwaters 😱

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Texas Women's Swimming & Diving

3 months

Your 2024 NCAA Champion in the 200-yard butterfly — Emma Sticklen! 👑🤘🏆🦋 #HookEm

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Jack Little

9 months

I found this online. Besides this making very little sense, it’s a good visual for my point. Put sport specific skills on the bottom. Then you can periodize general and specific preparatory phases. Theres no need to determine an athletes VO2 if they can not move efficiently.

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Jack Little

9 months

Training for Sports is more than just Heat Rate or metabolism. SKILL is the foundation for which all the “science” sits. Doesn’t matter how great your Krebs cycle is if you have faulty mechanics. Take time to build the base so your athletes can go the distance in sport!

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Jack Little

2 months

Favorite Challenge Sets for your athletes comment ⬇️

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Jack Little

7 months

What do in Pre-Comp for Comp in the weight room: ✅ Stimulate the Nervous system ❌ Don’t break down the body ✅ The minimum to keep strength adaptations ❌ Don’t do too much Example: A. Heavy barbell on back hold :10 + 2 assisted jumps B. 10 Med ball Slams Fast C. Landmine…

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Jack Little

9 months

Current S & C perspective on Strength: - 70%of time = Big Lifts - 20% = Accessory - 10% = Rotation My Opinion: - 30% Big Lifts - 30% Accessory - 40% Learning to Move! (Rotation)!

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Jack Little

9 months

Swimming Strength Saturday ⚡️ Today we take a step toward one of 5 goals this year. That is: prepare for a college weight room and post-career competency. Ideally we introduce some new concepts and standardize movement each session. Compared to picture 3 (purely performance).

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Jack Little

2 months

Motor Pattern is the pre-requisite for any other type of training. Why would you train high volume with poor motor patterns? Spend a little extra time to fine tune until you’re happy with what you see then begin to build.

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Jack Little

3 months

2 different sets. Breaststroke work for tonight. Mixed with a little underwater practice.

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Jack Little

7 months

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Jack Little

3 months

Intention in your practice is the most important principle in training. Why are you doing what you’re doing? To know why is to know the direction in which you sail. Other than purely peace of mind and clear direction it ties great into the principle of deliberate practice…..…

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Jack Little

8 months

How to build buy-in with a team. Paint the bigger picture and show them the mission at hand. Personally I got to see this kind of growth at Arizona State. No Team to #1 Rank in about 10 years. This goes a long way in life, not just athletics.

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Jack Little

2 months

Rebound squats. Still a lot of work to do technically. But I’ve really enjoyed using rebounds every day as a way to force change in the body. Reactive 💥 High force absorption 💥 Very Fast-twitch (compared to doing normal squats fast up) 💥

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