Improve Your Swimming on Land with the Vasa Trainer
Pools and open-water around the world have been closed for many of us the last few months, and while some regions are beginning to reopen, availability is still going to be limited for the unforeseeable future. That, and many pool, open-water, and triathlon races are postponed or cancelled this season. There’s no better time to focus on alternative forms of training, and fill in some training gaps.
Smart strength training has always been a secret weapon in my own swim training, and that of my clients. And since high school the Vasa Trainer has been a center piece around my dryland training out of the water.
Vasa has been a pioneer in swim specific strength and conditioning for over 30 years. Their swim benches come in several forms, with various attachments for focusing on different adaptations, strokes, drills, and racing components. Those of your familiar with an indoor rower will quickly adjust to the smooth ride of the swim bench on the monorail. Like swimming, many of the exercises performed, are upper-body dominant, using straps or pulleys, with handles or paddles, scaled using bands, and inclines. Performed prone and supine, like swimming, its the most specific way to develop technique, swim-specific strength, and conditioning on land. I find it particularly beneficial for developing local muscular endurance during build cycles, and for isolating specific aspects of technique outside of the water.
Check out some of the Vasa Trainer programming Ive been working on, below, from my home gym the last few months.
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Interested in coaching and programming for your dryland and swimming goals? Contact me, here!
Swim-specific Strength and Conditioning
Get 5% off on your own Vasa Trainer at checkout using code “bonus-dandaly”, here.
For more information on coaching and programming, contact me here!
