Knowledge is Speed!

"The Swim Smart download-ables are a MUST have for each swim coach. Whether you’re an experience veteran, or a bright-eyed new starter—these free tools are a great template for any coach to build off of."

- Abbie Fish, Creator/Head Coach of Swim Like A. Fish

Imagine you just walked on deck for the first time as a head or assistant coach. What do you do now!?

• How do you control these kids and make them believe in their team and training?
• How do you structure and write workouts?
• How do you teach the strokes in a competitive way?
• How do you keep track of the yards in an organized way?

The answers are all available below! 

Download Details

• Season Planning and Periodization
• Planning a season is a valuable mental exercise for any coach. Here is a guideline and example of putting together a season from start to finish
• Includes the Senior Template
• Workout Templates
• All templates are 2-week cycles of structured workout plans that help lay the ground work for planning your training
• All include detailed explanations of drills and training intensities to focus each set on a defined goal
• Sample workouts included with calculated yards, time and stress scores
• Treat these as a guideline to build your own program with
• Novice (8 and unders)- Focus on training technique and kicking
• Age Group (9-12)- Focus on training for the race
• Senior/Distance (13+)- Focus on training zones
• Workout Progressions
• Over 300 workouts 
• Each set has a Level 1, 2 and 3 version
• Structured by training zones
• Free/Fly kick and IM sets too
• Dryland Template
• Swimming focused with teachings about the Four main swimming motions and Four main training intensities 
• Stretching explanations included
• A guide to what exercises should be done, when and how many sets/reps of each during different parts of the season
• A list of possible exercises for each swimming motion and training intensity to fit a variety of available equipment
• An entire 16 week sample is included
• Dryland Exercise Videos
• Videos of various dryland exercises embedded in a PowerPoint that show how to do each exercise
• Very big file!
• Explanations and variations provided for a variety of abilities, equipment availability and to add spice to your dryland training.
• Nutrition Guide
• Brief introduction about the science of nutrition
• Meal planning guide and examples
• 20 weeks of space to write down your plans for the season!
• Learn how to eat during long weekend meets
• Overtraining Monitor 
• This uses the well researched and widely used Profile of Mood States questionnaire to quantify "stress"
• This monitor automatically calculates, graphs and tracks a swimmer's mood over the season which has a high correlation to overtraining
• Detailed explanations of how to interpret the numbers, what to do with them and references provided
• Training Tracker
• Write sets and track yards
• Automatically track types of training for the day, week and season
• Learn and change season to season
• Meet Lineup Tracker
• Keep track of your athlete's events in high school meets
• Prevent over entering. Summarize events entered
• The Biology of Swimming PDF
• Our entire 324 page picture book in PDF
• Perfect for sharing with the team chapter by chapter or converting to Kindle format
• It's the only non-free download here, but many have asked us to bring it back!
• Click here for more details and the hard copy version
• Swim Coach's Starter Guide
• Perfect for new coaches looking to make coaching their career
• A resource for head coaches wanting to help improve their assistants
• Directly applicable guidelines, tips and instruction
• Click here for more details and the hard copy version
• Coach's Swim Clinic
• Improve your coaching ability with these tips/guidelines:
• Build a team everyone wants to be on
  
• Managing the Team
• Teaching/training the strokes
• Writing workouts
• Stroke Teaching Slides
• A series of videos and PowerPoint slides that explains how to build up every complicated swimming stroke and motion from the ground up for competitive swimmers
• Every stroke can be broken down into a few key components
• Use a series of drills that focus on every component and lays a foundation for building and training a perfect stroke
• Website Documents
• Contains 11 essential documents to be posted on your website for all to see and use
• Parent Handbook
• Meet Info Guide
• Swimming Language Terms
• ... etc

Browse around and take a look at some of our other training tools that can help your swimmers crush their season!