Welcome!
I'm thrilled that you're considering joining me for an exciting evening of skill development and fun. This two-and-a-half hour clinic is designed for competitive swimmers aged 11 & over to learn in a stress-free environment dedicated entirely to fundamental skills. Swimming is a sport of repetition and it's my belief that the best swimmers are the best at the basics. In this 2.5-hour small group clinic I'll be breaking down all four strokes into the fundamentals of performance and then placing them back together for swimmers to perform skills at speed and click save. Read on to see if this clinic is the right fit for your swimmer!
About Our Clinics
We Focus On the Fundamentals
Every elite athlete, great athlete, and even good athlete are all built on stable foundations of proper movement patterns that become the basis of every muscle action that they use in their day-to-day sport specific movements. Building an athlete is exactly like building a house. Without a proper foundation, you're not going to have a stable house, and slowly, you're going to experience problem after problem. When athletes progress too quickly without mastering these fundamental abilities, they get injured, plateau, and fail to maintain longevity in their sport. We focus on teaching foundational skills and building training programs based on sound, well researched scientific principles. Our goal is to educate our the athletes that we work with so they can work on their skills outside of our clinics. No fluff, just fundamentals.
We Break Down The Stroke Into Tangible Components
We build each stroke from the ground up using part-training methods allowing the athlete to understand the different movements involved in the stroke, how they effect each other, and how to put those together in order to achieve technical efficiency. Doing so allows athletes to focus on improving specific components of their stroke before putting it back together.
We Swim Skills at Speed
We're working with competitive athletes. What good is a skill if it can't be accessed under pressure? Swimming our skills at speed after we've broken down the stroke proves that the athlete can access these skills during a practice or race settings when they need them most. It builds the athletes confidence that they can translate these skills on race day. It teaches athletes to repeat these skills under pressure in order to click save on their skills.
We Click Save On Our Skills
We provide opportunity for the athletes to click save on their skills. Athletes are smart and adaptable. They can perform a wide range of skills under perfect conditions, but can they perform them when it counts? To make sure that our athletes click save on their skills, we educate them, ensuring an understanding of WHY it will improve their swimming.
We Provide A Visual Learning Tool
Most people are visual learners. In swimming, we often rely on auditory cues and kinesthetic awareness. At our clinics we provide athletes with video footage of the skills that they worked on. By doing this, swimmers can review their stroke, deepening their understanding of their own performance.
Meet Your Coach
Hi! I'm coach Mitch Bowmile. I have over 10-years of experience developing swimmers of all ages and abilities to achieve their goals. I'm a certified swim coach in Canada and the United States as well as a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association. I'm a strong believer that the best athletes are quite simply the best at the basics. On that principal, I started Swimming Stronger to provide athletes with a stress-free opportunity to improve their fundamental skills, sport knowledge, and athletic abilities with an emphasis on supporting their long term development.