Swimming Ideas, Jeffrey Napolski
102 episodes listed below
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Fun and effective strategies for swimming lessons, teams, and Aquatic Professionals. Listen to best practices and interviews with other members of the swimming community to get the most out of your swimming program.
At the T-mark, Jeff wants your swimmers to keep going: the wall still needs touching.
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A practical guide to developmental swim practice structure and progression.
The episode reads like a practical guide for building developmental swim practices and swim teams. It is aimed at coaches helping beginner swimmers move from lessons into competition, and it covers the basics without getting lost: streamline, circle swimming, drills,…
A practical case for routine as the backbone of developmental swim practice.
This episode treats routine in developmental swim practices as a practical discipline, not a slogan. It keeps coming back to habits, consistency, and a simple framework that makes faster swimming easier to build.
Swimming talk with meet-level detail.
Swimming talk from inside the lane lines.
Swimming Ideas Podcast episode 101 with host Jeff explores how establishing routine in developmental swim programs helps overcome new swimmers' anxiety and builds confidence.
Swimming Ideas Podcast episode 102 uses streamline technique to explain how developmental swim coaches should build habits through repeated correction.
Swimming Ideas Podcast episode 99 introduces a six-to-ten-episode season on building developmental swim programs for swimmers ages five to 13.
Jeff of Swimming Ideas Podcast presents a formula for creating swim-lesson challenges and games: choose a core skill, add a roadblock or rule, and evaluate whether the activity is fun, achievable, relevant, and easy to understand.
Swimming Ideas Podcast episode 61 features Jeff interviewing Dominic Littella of The Swim Box about breathing, coaching, and meditation-informed self-evaluation.
Teresa Stewart has taught swimming since 1980 and now runs Safe Splashes lessons from her Arizona backyard pool.