Setbacks are opportunities to use creativity, grit, and determination to swim stronger. It takes a special person to turn adversity into successful learning and improvements. There are many forms of setbacks, whether they be an injury, illness, limited pool availability,…
Matt Kredich, Head Swimming Coach at the University of Tennessee, explains how to set up your swim stroke for an explosive pull to gain more power in your swimming. Coach Kredich often relies on the Vasa Trainer, equipped with the…
What is swimming with a monospeed freestyle? How to Swim Better: Overcoming a “Monospeed” Stroke – A standard limiter for many swimmers is maintaining the same hand speed throughout the entire stroke. This is especially noticeable in those who began…
This is part 3 in a series of blog posts where we ask important questions to successful coaches in the Vasa community. Here are their answers to an important question: What are the primary differences in how triathletes & open…
Here are three indoor swim trainer workouts created to help you swim stronger and better in a time-efficient format. Each workout shown below uses a Vasa SwimErg. Note: these workouts can also be done using a Vasa Trainer or with…
How to Have Swim Training Success During Covid-19 Global Health Crisis On March 20, 2020, I experienced a moment of existential dread that was unlike anything I’d ever felt before. It wasn’t because I was only three days away from…
Faster Freestyle Swimming Technique Video Series (part 3 of 5) Learn how to improve your freestyle swimming technique, efficiency, power and endurance from Karlyn Pipes, swim technique expert coach and Masters Swimming multiple World Record holder. In this no-nonsense swim clinic, Coach…
Technique Video Series for Faster Freestyle Swimming (part 1 of 5) Learn how to swim faster freestyle with improved technique, efficiency, power and endurance from Masters Swimming World Record Holder and coach, Karlyn Pipes. In this no-nonsense swim clinic, Coach…
We collaborated with Coach Karlyn Pipes to create an exciting online swim clinic – How to Improve Freestyle Swimming In Five Easy Steps for swimmers, swim coaches, and triathletes to benefit from her highly effective method of teaching better swim techniques.…
Two of the most essential elements of a fast, efficient Freestyle stroke are the High Elbow Catch (a.k.a. Early Vertical Forearm or EVF) and connecting the stroke with proper body rotation. For many, it’s not always a simple matter to…
Two more weeks have passed since I tested out how my workout performance in the pool is affected by the Vasa Swim Ergometer. As you may recall from my previous blog, there were some points I needed to work on…
At the 2014 ASCA World Clinic in Jacksonville, University of Tennessee Head Coach Matt Kredich presented how he uses Vasa Trainers and Vasa Swim Ergs to teach critical skills on land. Matt first started using Vasa Trainers in 1991 while…
