Indoor Swim Training Tips: How to Beat the Boredom
Struggling to stay motivated during your indoor swim training sessions? You’re not alone. Here’s how to beat the boredom.
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Tim Crowley – Talks Coaching and Vasa as a Game Changer
Tim Crowley is Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Montverde Academy. He also is an accomplished triathlon coach and age-group triathlete. He owns TC2Coaching and coaches many triathletes, including beginners, age group contenders, and Olympians. Since 2006, Tim has used…
Vasa 30-20-10 Power Building Interval Workout
This workout is an adaptation of the “30-20-10” Interval workout that has become popular with many runners and cyclists. It works very well as a Vasa Swim Erg power-building swim workout. WHAT IS IT? The workout consists of doing seven…
More Than a Plan B
By Tim Crowley How the Vasa SwimErg is Essential to Maximize your Swim Fallback plans or a “plan B” will help you maintain frequency and consistency. These two variables are essential for maintaining fitness. Gaining momentum in training and feeling…
Tips to Keep Your Vasa SwimErg Functioning Well
By Rob Sleamaker, Founder & CEO of Vasa “Rob, remember that quality costs less” When I was ten years old, my grandfather graciously and gently shared that wisdom as we polished his pristine 1957 Chevy. “Buy quality products, take…
How Vasa Trainer Maintenance Keeps It Working Great
By Rob Sleamaker, Founder & CEO of Vasa “Rob, remember that quality costs less” When I was ten years old, my grandfather graciously and gently shared that wisdom as we polished his pristine 1957 Chevy. “Buy quality products, take…
Acceleration Endurance – The Key to Faster Open-Water Swimming
Author: Tim Crowley Acceleration endurance is critical to improving open-water swim performance. This is an essential skill to develop as an “adult-onset” swimmer. Athletes who did not grow up as age group swimmers often find the ability to accelerate through…
Swimming & Triathlon Training At Home: Building Your Own Personal Performance Center
Whether you call it a home gym, pain cave, gain cave, wattage cottage, or just your favorite escape, now is the perfect time to create your ideal at-home training center so you can stay fit and improve during the coming…
5 Essential Core Exercises to Improve Your Swim
Author: Tim Crowley It is widely accepted that core training is essential to swimming performance and efficiency. In most sports, athletes have their feet anchored on the ground, making power transfer from the ground up easy to train. In contrast,…
5 Warm-up Exercises to Try Before Your Next Swim
Author: Coach Dan Daly What is a good warm-up, and why is it so important for optimizing function and athletic performance? A good warm-up does five important things: It warms up the body’s systems and increases the blood flow to…
How a Champion Swimmer Optimizes Time for Better Results
•Author: Jerry Frentsos Time. What does it mean to you? Depending on the person, it’s a word with various definitions and connotations. So let’s take a look at what the dictionary has to say about time. Time, noun, the indefinite…
Swim-specific Training At Home For Time-Crunched Athletes
Are you a swimmer or triathlete who is extremely busy? Do you sometimes find it difficult to get to a pool or the open water for your swim training? If so, take heart because you are not alone! Expert swim…