Carmel Swim Club

This year I am working with Carmel Swim Club in Carmel Indiana on their dryland training program. This entails me visiting the team four times during the year, frequent calls and emails to assist the coaches design and implement a comprehensive program to address the development of the physical literacy of the swimmers from age eight to eighteen. My first visit was in late August and the most recent visit this past Monday and Tuesday. In August we planned the year in appropriate blocks based on the competition schedule and began work on implementing the physical literacy components with the age groupers. This is a true Long Term Athlete Development program designed to produce swimming athletes. It will take a year to implement the whole program and work out the bugs but under the guidance of Head Coach Chris Plum and Head Age Group Coach Ian Murray they are well on their way. This program builds upon what they have done before. Spending time with these coaches, seeing their dedication and hunger to learn and innovate, it is easy to see why they are fast emerging on the national scene as a club to be reckoned with.

The video clips below are from the Tuesday morning upper body session at 6:00 AM, they did some swimming after this session.