National Team High Performance Tips

An excellent summary of articles on a variety of topics indexed by date:

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Freestyle (14 articles)
03/26/2012 Five Tips for the Freestyle Breakout
03/26/2012 Sprinters and Body Line
01/23/2012 High Elbow Drill with Cullen Jones
01/17/2012 Rotate forward, not side-to-side
01/03/2012 100m free breath counts
01/03/2012 Kicking Technique
12/20/2011 Yannick Agnel's & Camille Muffat's Technique
11/07/2011 Maintaining 400m Speed for the 800m
10/31/2011 Women's 50m and 100m Free Race Analysis
10/16/2011 100m free race strategy
10/04/2011 Women's 800m Free Split Breakdown
03/12/2012 1500 Pacing and Training
12/05/2011 Women’s 50 free Tempo and Cycle Count
09/24/2012 100 free breathing patterns

Backstroke (5 articles)
01/17/2012 Rotation timing is more important than amount
12/20/2011 The Best Pull
11/21/2011 Backstroke starts: Pay Attention to Your Posture
04/09/2012 100m Back Tempos
01/23/2012 Bonus Kick to Improve Your Breakout

Breaststroke (6 articles)
03/12/2012 Timing: Pull Your Legs, then Kick Your Streamline
02/27/2012 Bodyline
02/21/2012 Underwater Pull
11/21/2011 To Swim Faster, Don’t Pull Harder
10/24/2011 Men's 200m Breaststroke Split Breakdowns
10/22/2012 Command Your Tempo

Butterfly (5 articles)
05/29/2012 Pull pattern
03/19/2012 Press Forward, Not Down
02/14/2012 Both Kicks Should Be Created Equal
10/17/2011 How to Split a Women's 200 Fly
11/05/2012 Breakouts: Think Out, Not Up

Dolphin Kick (3 articles)
04/09/2012 Key Technique Points
12/27/2011 Tempo of the Best Kickers
12/27/2011 Training Tips for Improvement

Starts (5 articles)
04/16/2012 The Wedge Setting on Incline Blocks
02/27/2012 Reaction Times across the World
12/05/2011 10 Things to Watch For
11/28/2011 Relay Starts: Which Approach is the Best
11/28/2011 Relay Starts: When Should I Swing My Arms?

Turns/Finishes (4 articles)
04/23/2012 Back to Breast Turns
04/23/2012 The Importance of a Good Finish
02/21/2012 Open Turns: Stop Cheating Your Walls
10/15/2012 Foot placement

Health/Nutrition (8 articles)
04/03/2012 Good News and a Word of Caution about the Supplement Industry
02/06/2012 Staying Healthy at the End of the Season
01/26/2012 3 Things You Need to Know About Dietary Supplements
01/09/2012 The Danger of an Iron Deficiency
12/12/2011 Recovery Nutrition during Hard Training
10/31/2011 Alcohol, Growth Hormone, & Sleep
10/1/2012 Three Recovery Tips from the Experts
10/29/2012 Protein Post-Training
10/21/2012 Top Five Healing Foods

Strength/Dryland (5 articles)
04/03/2012 Maintain Strength at the End of the Season
03/05/2012 Looking for a Dryland Exercise? Try the Burpee
01/09/2012 The Best Barbell Exercise?
10/04/2011 Ground-Based and Olympic Lifts
10/08/2012 Yoga: The Benefits for Swimmers

General (4 articles)
06/19/2012 Accomplishing Long-Term Goals
06/04/2012 Equipment: Underwater Camera Recommendation
02/06/2012 Praise the talent or the effort?
04/16/2012 Mythbuster: Breaststrokers Make the Best IMers

Training (7 articles)
02/14/2012 Shoulder Problems: Fix Your Technique
12/12/2011 Manipulating Distance Per Cycle, Tempo and Cycle Count for Improvement
07/17/2012 Successful Taper Strategies
05/01/2012 Hypoxic Training: Misunderstood Application
03/19/2012 Improve Your Fitness, Improve Your Performance
03/05/2012 High Volume vs. Injury and Illness

10/24/2011 Cycle Counts and Goal Times.

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