About Swimmer to Coach

The mini-book series is a body of printed work that can be found on Amazon under the name Swimmer to Coach by Matthew Johnson. The link to look at and purchase the titles can be found on the "mini-series" tab.

So far, the titles available are as follows:

• How to Write a Workout

• How to Write a Season Plan

• 10 & Under Novice Workouts / 8 & Under Advanced

• 10 & Under Junior Workouts / 11-12 Novice

The books that are still in the making are below:

• 10 & Under Advanced / 11-12 Junior / 13-14 Novice

• 13-14 Advanced / 15-18 Novice

• 15-18 Junior

• Understanding an Aerobic Athletes Season

• Understanding a Sprint Athletes Season

• Athlete Mentality and Team Culture

• Team Program and Management

Workouts

Extra information and resources are available on this website for the following books:

• 10 & Under Novice Workouts / 8 & Under Advanced

• 10 & Under Junior Workouts / 11-12 Novice

• 10 & Under Advanced / 11-12 Junior / 13-14 Novice

• 13-14 Advanced / 15-18 Novice

• 15-18 Junior

Each of these books directly correlates to a specific Age Range and Skill Level that potential Year Round teams may have. These books contain specific workouts and notes that coaches can quickly use and learn from as they move through a season. These books, however, are only printed text. There are many situation where written text and pictures do not give the whole story. By going into the "Workout" tab, coaches can get to a series of information that is specifically designed to provide coaches with drill or skill demonstration, video examples, and extra coaches notes for each phase, week, and day. These videos and links are directly mirrored to the books and can be used to for you to get a real sense of what skills / drills / and strokes are supposed to look like. They can be used to show the athletes exactly what you are looking for.

"How to" Series

This page is also designed to lead coaches to a place where they can get blank templates for information presented in "How to" books. Currently, the available books are How to Write a Workout and How to Write a Season Plan. The information available for download directly correlates with the information that is presented in these books.

Resources

A large part about expanding your knowledge of coaching comes from reading about swimming or watching videos. On this website, the "Resource" tab is here to provide coaches with extra tools to build a stronger base of swimming knowledge. Under this tab, you will find the following information:

PDF's / Work Doc's / Power Point's

• • These button will take you to a list of different articles or presentations that I have found to be helpful in increasing my coaching knowledge. While gathering basic information that directly relates to a group I am coaching or a responsibility I have on a team is important, there are many outside sources that help build my ideology and philosophy of coaching. You can download and print these any of the resources you see (as needed) as you work to build you coaching profile.

Videos

These videos are extra tools that coaches can watch in order to increase their ability to recognize and teach skills from some of the best athletes in the world.

• • Free / Back / Breast / Butterfly / Starts / Turns

These buttons will take coaches to individual strokes will contain specific videos that I have found to be helpful to watch. Some videos will be listed as Full Strokes, Part Strokes, or Drills.

• Specific People

This button will take you to different videos of some of the best known athletes in the history of swimming. The goal in this is to allow you the chance to watch and break down the stroke concepts that made the greats, great. It can also be a resource for you to share with your athletes so they can learn at their own discretion.

• Dryland

The Dryland button will take you to a list of dryland videos that coaches can use as a resource in designing their dryland program. As of right now, the dryland videos are demonstrated by Big 10 200 IM Record Holder Margaret (Kelly) Johnson. More videos will be added to the list as time goes on.

The Swimmer to coach website is designed to be a resource for coaches that looking for some extra help in developing their program. This website will use videos, swimming articles, and a book series to bring you up to speed on some of the more intricate necessary information in running a program. These are the resources and information that can be found on this website. The videos below will show you how to access all of the information on this site.