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
  • 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
  • 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
• 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
• 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
• 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!