Posts From Alan Couzens
Basic Limiters: Work Capacity
I want to explore one of the most important and yet misunderstood abilities that is the prime focus of an athlete’s Base Period.
Basic Limiters: Strength
If there is one biomotor ability that sets athletes (from all sports) apart from non-athletes it is basic strength.
Basic Limiters
Early winter is the time of year to consider some of the more basic and often ignored qualities that go together to make up the qualities that might eventually limit your performance in your specific event.
Horses for Courses – Part III: Race Selection Based on Body Type
Now is the time of year that athletes are filling in their calendars and deciding what races will occupy their next season.
Periodization Simplified
I am currently reading what I consider to be one of the best books on training theory and practice that I have ever put my hands on.
Fast Responders versus Slow Responders: The Health Factor
While we can’t do a whole lot to change our genetics, there is another factor that dramatically affects how we respond to training over which we have much greater control.
Energy Management
The higher the performance level of the athlete, the greater his or her awareness of and ability to manage the energy available with which to work.
Functional Flexibility – Part III: Exercises to Improve Your Swim Flexibility
I want to follow up on my last article on flexibility for swimming with a few practical exercises that you can use to improve shoulder mobility and improve your swim stroke.
Functional Flexibility – Part II: The Swim Catch
I want to go into a little more depth on probably the most important area of the stroke where flexibility limitations can come into play — the catch.
Go Fast When the Race Is Slow – (Another) Case Study
As a follow up to my last article on putting the “go fast when the race is slow” strategy into practice, I was asked by one of the guys to offer thoughts on how effective his own pacing strategy was in that race.
