Welcome to SwimEd: Education for coaches, athletes and parents.

Join Matthew Grant and Jennifer Bowers as they examine the top swimming and sporting topics from three perspectives: the coaches, the athletes and the parents.

In each episode, our listeners hear the conversations, stories, insights and advice we’ve been sharing for years on and off the pool deck that help coaches improve their coaching, athletes increase their performances and parents boost their support. Combined with interviews of experts in various field of study and even coaches from other sports, listeners get the latest information and new ways of thinking about swimming and sports.

Episode 9 - Preparation

Preparation for practice is an essential. Coaches write the workouts according to the weekly and seasonal plans to help swimmers prepare for their end-of-season or championship meet. Athletes often overlook the importance of being totally ready to practice. Most swimmers think about swimming as they walk on the deck, when they hit the water or after warm up.

In this episode, we will talk about preparations for practices, mainly from an athlete’s perspective. We will talk about various ways to get mentally, physically, emotionally and socially ready for practice. As always, we discuss how coaches and parents can help athletes learn these skills that increase performance.

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Join us on weekly on SwimEd: Education for coaches, athletes and parents.

Welcome to SwimEd: Education for coaches, athletes and parents.

Join Matthew Grant and Jennifer Bowers as they examine the top swimming and sporting topics from three perspectives: the coaches, the athletes and the parents.

In each episode, our listeners hear the conversations, stories, insights and advice we’ve been sharing for years on and off the pool deck that help coaches improve their coaching, athletes increase their performances and parents boost their support. Combined with interviews of experts in various field of study and even coaches from other sports, listeners get the latest information and new ways of thinking about swimming and sports.

Episode 10 – Macro and Microcycles

Creating a practice plan and writing workouts is one of the major jobs of a coach and staff. This takes a significant amount of time and the execution of these plans should lead to success. This should be one of, if not the most important task of the year and an expectation for athletes and parents.

In this episode, we will talk about how we plan our seasons and weekly schedules, known as macrocycles and microcycles. We will discuss our process, important keys to success and critique each other’s plan. In short, this is what we do as coaches and we hope it will give some ideas to coaches, help swimmers understand the behind the scenes work and give parents a way to trust in their coaches.

Connect with Us: Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for updates, and join our Facebook Group to get behind-the-scenes content and more information about topics on the podcast.

Contact Us: Have a topic suggestion or want to share your thoughts? Email us at SwimEdInfo@gmail.com.

Subscribe and Rate/Review: You'll help others find our podcast and make sure you don't miss an episode. Then leave a review to let us know what you think!

Join us on weekly on SwimEd: Education for coaches, athletes and parents.

Welcome to SwimEd: Education for coaches, athletes and parents.

Join Matthew Grant and Jennifer Bowers as they examine the top swimming and sporting topics from three perspectives: the coaches, the athletes and the parents.

In each episode, our listeners hear the conversations, stories, insights and advice we’ve been sharing for years on and off the pool deck that help coaches improve their coaching, athletes increase their performances and parents boost their support. Combined with interviews of experts in various field of study and even coaches from other sports, listeners get the latest information and new ways of thinking about swimming and sports.

Episode 8 – Feedback

Feedback is one of the most important ways coaches help athletes improve performance. The corrections given with feedback might address technique, effort, attitude, behaviors and so much more. Further, the type of feedback given to athletes in practice should be a lot different than the feedback at a competition. In fact, feedback changes based on so many factors that a “one-size-fits-all” approach will not work.

In this episode, we will explore feedback from a lot of angles. We will discuss the best form, tricks that help with communicating feedback, how feedback should change based on the swimmer and environment, how swimmers should use self-feedback, what parents should say when giving feedback and so much more. For a topic that seems so easy, there is a lot to discuss for coaches, athletes and parents to use feedback the best.

Connect with Us: Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for updates, and join our Facebook Group to get behind-the-scenes content and more information about topics on the podcast.

Contact Us: Have a topic suggestion or want to share your thoughts? Email us at SwimEdInfo@gmail.com.

Subscribe and Rate/Review: You'll help others find our podcast and make sure you don't miss an episode. Then leave a review to let us know what you think!

Join us on weekly on SwimEd: Education for coaches, athletes and parents.