What are your favourite dryland exercises for swimmers?

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Gregory Adamson · Answer

What are your favorite dryland exercises for swimmers? I think the difficulty of that question is what event do they swim, where are they at in their career, what do they enjoy, what do they need to work on? I mean that's just a tough question to answer in a general way. But I would say anything that gets them moving. A happy swimmer is a fast swimmer so something that helps them bring joy to what they're doing and making sure that they're always consistently getting better with what it is that they're working on. I've got one of the most elite back strokers in the world, would you have anything to add? I thought you were going to tell me some of your favorite exercises and I was going to perform it right now. Next time. Next time. We'll look for it in part 2. Boom. Boom.

Lee Sommers · Answer

What are your favorite dry land exercises for swimmers? I love this question and yet, it's very broad. It really depends on what summer working with age physical maturity, and what they need within that season and within their macro micro Cycles. As far as their training, is concerned at a younger age. I like exercises that are teaching them, how to be athletes, especially they only do swimming. So teaching them basic foundational movement patterns, but also teaching them how to be a Thanks how to run, how to land, how to jump, how to find their core, very basic, teaching them how to be an athlete because they spend so much time buoyant and water that they don't really understand how to react to the ground as they get older. I put a bigger focus on them getting stronger. Obviously, I love things like squats split squats. I like doing some version of a deadlift whether it's like an R DL, or a hinge. Really teaching them that pattern because a lot of swimmers have a hard time finding a hinge pattern or X bar deadlift. I also like doing upper body strength, a lot of rows, landmine pressing external rotation of the shoulder and more progressed abdominal and core exercises. So that they can really make sure that they're stable through their trunk. They can also move powerfully through their trunk and that they're an efficient swimmer. They're not battling Body positions in the water and it's becoming an inefficient swimmer. Really? With all of that, the most important thing is a strength coach is to make sure that you relate the exercises back to swimming so that they understand the importance at an early age and that they buy into the process and really kind of engage in the process rather than just doing it and not understanding why they're doing the exercises they're doing.

John Sinclair · Answer

All right. My favorite dry line exercises for swimmers happen to be anything that's done on the ground obviously. And that's because called dry land. But anything where we have to use the ground in different ways to have to teach the body, how to deal with ground reaction force is going to be awesome. So I like lots of lunges, lots of squats jumps doing drills where I have to lift the weights vertically. I love doing drills where I have to shift the weight side, Side to side because that's something that we don't usually get in the pool. And here's my dog puppy and those are kind of my favorite ones. So I think if we spend lots of time interacting with the ground, it's an amazing compliment to for those people that are constant in the water.

Tim Crowley · Answer

My favorite dryland exercises for swimming would definitely be a VASA ergometer or VASA trainer. I love the ergometer better because it has a power meter so we can look at right arm left arm power, we can build strength, we can build aerobic endurance, we can build specific power. All this stuff can be tracked, it can be downloaded and analyzed in order to progressively load it. So that's the one tool that we have, it would be that. I would use the VASA trainer which is a body weight, again you can use two arms or one arm on a roller board. Also super effective for building swim specific strength so if you can do one thing out of the pool to make you a better swimmer, that is it.

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