Catagories » general articles » health & injuries » technique » psychology » coaching   Mental Toolbox Spend as much time training your brain as you do your body! The Sports Psychology department at USA Swimming has put together a Mental Toolbox to help you achieve your swimming goals. Included in the toolbox are lessons, self-tests, and more. For example, the section on goal setting asks you to write out, "What were this weeks goals?". find out more »   From our Bookshop Gold in the Water: The Extraordinary Pursuit of Olympic Glory

Articles about Coaching

12 ideas for coaching in 1997 (By John Leonard)
25 communication ideas for swim coaches/swim clubs (By John Leonard)
Age group: How to choreograph a swimming practice (By Bill Mc. Keon)
An endurance training progression for maturation: elite level age groupers (By Bill Sweetenham)
Coaching adolescent girls: The developmental perspective (By William Hensel and Anne Duncan)
Coaching novice swimmers freestyle and backstroke (By Peter Malone, Mike Lewellyn and Mary Lane Camberg)
Components of a water workout (By Aquatic Exercise Association)
Establishing the distance base for training (By Peter Daland)
Owning your own business (By Joseph Bernall)
Pros and cons of owning your own swim program (By John Leonard)
The effective coaches guide to coaching in a training camp environment (By Bill Sweetenham)
The quality of approachability (By John Leonard)
Towards better teaching (By Katherine Thomas)
Why coaches leave programs or get fired (By unknown)
Working together succesfully (By Greg Troy and Larry Shofe)