Free Style SC

...more than just a swimming club.

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

All the best Free Stylers! 🤞🏼

[Stuart Dustan @SwimCoachStu]

All the best to our @FreeStyle_SC athletes, @forresacademy1 students and all swimmers from across the @SASANorth District awaiting their #SQAresults today!

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

All the best to our Free Style Swimmers competing in the British Masters Championships! 🙌🏼

#Raceday #Swimming @SwimWales

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

We often put it to our athletes that, in any given session, we have swam more race-pace lengths than any other club in the UK.

I wonder how accurate we are 🤔

#RacePaceTraining #Swimming

[Stuart Dustan @SwimCoachStu]

Formula One drivers do the majority of their training at slow speeds (70-80mph).

On race-day they just go for it! (180-230mph).

Sounds absurd right?

Why do coaches insist on training their swimmers like this?

#Swimming #SwimlikeaF1driver

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

We aim to have enthusiastic and smiling swimmers at the beginning AND end of each session!

[Stuart Dustan @SwimCoachStu]

I remembering belonging to a club that trained swimmers twice on a Sunday. ~3000m per session.

The swimmers were knackered; exhausted even. Can you imagine the impact that had on their school work?

This is how you drive athletes away from the sport they love...

#Swimming

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

Our club is buzzing!

From our youngest to our more ‘mature’ swimmers - our athletes and coaches are arriving on the poolside with a smile and leaving with a bigger one.

2019 is shaping up to be a very good year!

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

Outstanding performance from @adam_peaty in the 100m Breast at the #EuropeanChampionships 🙌🏼

Smashing his own World Record - an unexpected result for him!

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

You can put up a set on a whiteboard using various coloured pens and make it look very impressive with various acronyms and % signs BUT

If you just leave swimmers to read it and ‘get on with it’ you may as well put some paint on the wall for the swimmers to watch dry!

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

@fastbuoy You hit the nail on the head! It's not rocket science...or may be it is?

[Johnstone M-S @fastbuoy]

Yesterday I ran in the same shorts I had when I was a 19 year old student at Loughborough (😉 #LCHF). As a sexagenarian, I only wish I had known then what I do now!

[Johnstone M-S @fastbuoy]

Hoping to up my running mileage this week to a mighty 8 miles (😉 #USRPT). As a sexagenarian former modern pentathlete I only wish I had known then what I do now!

[Johnstone M-S @fastbuoy]

@SASANorth Still struggling with starters who accentuate the word "Take" then pause before "your marks". It's one continuous instruction and important that the accentuation is left for the starting signal. Sprinters in particular need consistency.

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

@SwimCoachStu At Free Style we get our swimmers to 'own their dogs' https://t.co/5iKDPGyKIi

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

@SASANorth champs The 2 common characteristics of finalists today were rhythm & 'forwardness' (swimming somewhere rather than just swimming)

[Johnstone M-S @fastbuoy]

Will the impact of the meteorite that is #USRPT finally see an end to dinosaur swimming training in Scotland?

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

USRPT is tough - there's no doubt about it. And you actually have to learn how to do it. Have you started that process yet?

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

In masters meets, what is the ratilonale behind arbitrarily spearheading sequential heats? Anyone?

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

Practicing the wrong thing is anathema at Free Style. EVERY stroke taken has to be performed with the intent of making it as good as possble

[Anne Clarke @ACs_Lovelies]

@FreeStyle_SC Can you do this? 😊 https://t.co/6Brk6W2IAa

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

We swim long & slow at training so that we can race short & fast at a competition.

Err, hang on a second there's something not right...

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

...technically, physiologically and, psychologically.

#RacePaceTraining #USRPT https://t.co/ZUZ6JNiH0r

[Free Style SC @FreeStyle_SC]

We at Free Style follow the principle of specificity, i.e. our training replicates that which is experienced in a race...