INTRODUCTION....

Dear swimmer,

You have one main obligation to yourself and that is: To be able to swim lifetime best times at your biggest meets of the season.Everything you do in practice from your warm up to your warm down revolves around this one goal.If you find that you are not consistently swimming fast when it counts - during the biggest meets of year, then your entire season is tainted.Because PB times only matter when they’re swum in races that matter.

Fast times at big meets is what competitive swimming is all about. Some individual Swimmers are endowed with the ability to perform repetitive actions at an unusually fast rate. This characteristic, when coupled with the technique of applying force in the most efficient manner, produces the "Quick 50m" or the "Quick 100m" swimmer.

The Swim50 concept concerns a factor that governs the maximization of a swimmers sprinting ability be they Elite, Masters or Triathletes. The way to train for these sprint events have been known for more than 30 years but have largely been ignored by a very large contingent of British coaches.Fact: G.B's last successful sprinter in the 100m freestyle was Bobby McGregor in the early 1960's !

Our Present Situation: In the current sprint events of 50m-100m swimming a few features have become very evident. The performance of some Swimmers over these two distances are highly variable which suggests to me that there is a lack of any defined, correct procedure for controlling the level of training for their 50m-100m sprint event.

There are a few individuals who cluster at the very top of the sprint performance tree. This, in my view may be interpreted as indicating that the development of this talent is by chance rather than through the design of coaching. The programmes of these so called sprint swimmers are extremely varied. Every swimming workout that I have attended here in the UK has been almost totally aerobic in nature with very little time spent on speed work.

I believe the basis for this is that many coaches believe swimmers cannot handle a session that is all speed work because they wrongly believe that it is too heavy a strain on their cardiovascular system. We are still just starting to understand how unbelievably fast swimmers can swim and how tough they can be at pushing themselves.

In UK swimming there is a very big problem with the conditioning paradigm of the coaches and swimmers for this sprint event. The problem is crucial, and I hope that if you are reading this, you may start to change the way you approach your training for the 50m-100m events.

Swim50 represents the very latest training and stroke mechanics available to train and empower swimmers of all standards to competate and improve their sprinting ability and take full control of their swimming performance!

The concept is simple! Just as someone can be traumatized and conditioned to under perform when they compete in the 50m or 100m event every time they face a sprint situation after just one bad swim, Swim50 engineers a positive experience in a very short time, which provides conditioning to control and even use the fear and adrenaline rush that inevitably occurs in any intense competitive situation.

With Swim50, we consistently do this for competitive swimmers of all levels with 100% success!