The Jan.-Feb. 2013 issue of Splash is
now available online and as a mobile app for your iPad and iPhone. This issue of Splash
offers tips on implementing a long term training plan and takes a
look back at the 2012 Golden Goggle Awards.
Technique:Starting Now
As the final race concluded and the
Olympic torch was extinguished this summer in London, swimmers and coaches
across the world began planning for the next four years leading up to Rio. It
takes more than four years of planning to become an Olympian, however. It all
starts with great technique in the pool.
Rachel Stratton-Mills, head coach at
Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics (which produced Olympic bronze medalist Lia
Neal) and Todd Schmitz, head coach of four-time Olympic gold medalist Missy
Franklin and the Colorado Stars, offer their tips on developing and enforcing
great technique.
Read it now.