Hello competitors, lap swimmers, and learners alike, Welcome to another weekly installment of Sigma Swimming media, where we follow up last week's work on properly pushing off the wall. For those of you who are patiently waiting on the continuation of the freestyle series, never fear, as we're going to be right back to our scheduled program soon. This week, however, we will continue on last week's note to discuss ways to help YOU improve your lap swimming. One of the MAJOR ways to do so is by perfecting the...

What's up everyone! We're taking a little break from our regularly scheduled program as we adjust into the 2023 by pausing the freestyle beginner series! If you haven't seen any of it thus far, please make sure to go check out our playlist HERE. The next few weeks will be devoted to learning 3 different ways to improve your lap swimming! If you feel as though you've stagnated in your solo practices, you've come to the right place! This week, the first of 3 topics that we're serving up for...

Happy New Year, everyone! January is now upon us, so all the tasks we left to "circle back to in the New Year" are now sitting in bright red on our agendas. Hopefully, one of those is continuing to build your freestyle mastery. What better way to feel accomplished than to push yourself into a newfound skill? If you need a little recap, we ended the trunk-based motion of freestyle last week with our rotation video. This week, in conjunction with the dawn of 2023, we look to jump into...

Happy Holidays, Folks! Is your New Year's resolution to keep improving your swimming? Well you've come to the right place! Hopefully everyone is having a great finish to their 2022. With only a few days left of the year, let's close things out on a great note with our freestyle progressions. Last week, we spent our time getting into rhythm with good freestyle breathing technique, which will admittedly take further practice than just the week that has lapsed since our last post. Just keep working at it as we continue...

Hey, hey, hey! To those who have been following along through this series, hello again; and those who may be just joining, welcome! We're continuing on with our introductory freestyle series. After streamlining and kicking our way into our early steps, we now look to focus on what can keep us going longer: breathing. It's easy enough to push off and start kicking in our freestyle, but without solid breathing technique and a consistent breathing pattern, we might find some difficulty. Let's take a deep breath and jump right in!...

Hey everybody! Let's keep this show on the road with this week's post. If you're just now joining us, feel free to hit rewind on the tape and go check out our post on the freestyle streamline. To once again reiterate, this is ALL NEW MATERIAL that we have coming up that is homegrown to share to the masses, meaning YOU! Now that we have focused on building a proper body and head position, it's time to move to the back of the boat with our very own outboard motor....

Hi all! While most of us continue to work off the effects of the tryptophan from the holiday weekend - I know I certainly am trying to - it feels like a perfect time to jump in the first, content-based lesson for beginner freestyle. If you haven't yet joined us for the series, we have only just begun, and feel free (get it?) to go check out our introductory post! This week, our goal is to jump right into the foundation of freestyle (and any other stroke, for that matter):...

Hi Sigma Swim and Stroke Schoolers! After a great stretch of weeks walking through progressions for beginner swimming, we're coming to an end of our introductory series. Please click the following link ( here) for access to our blog so that you can follow along through the weekly progressions. We've come quite a long way over the course of our journey since summertime, and those of us here at Sigma would like to congratulate all of our beginning learners on the great progress they've made! This week, we'll be closing...

Hello Swim Team and Adult Fitness Swimmers! We're meandering our way back into the mental side of swimming this week with a new subtopic. Last week, we saw an opinion piece from Coach Justin discussing finding one's reason for swimming. This week, we start to put all of our puzzle pieces together that we have discussed so far. Unfortunately, swimming is a very unforgiving sport - you constantly have to give more than you might get in return. It gets increasingly easy to fall into the trap of complacency and...

Hello Swim Team and Adult Fitness Swimmers! PSA - longer post today as it is an opinion piece It's 6am, you're groggy, scratching at your eyes. Your body is cold, the water looks colder, and all you can think about is how much you don't want to stare at the black line at the bottom of the pool. Sometimes it feels like that line is your only entertainment during the monotony of everyday practice. I know, I've been there. Lap after lap, stroke after stroke, we move up and down...