SWIMMING GOLD

Straight talk on swimming coaching from Wayne Goldsmith — 30+ years working with Olympic programs and national federations worldwide. Cutting through the noise on technique, training, race skills and building swimmers who love the sport. swimminggold.substack.com

SWIMMING GOLD is a sports podcast hosted by Wayne Goldsmith, with 51 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Wayne Goldsmith hosts SWIMMING GOLD, a sports show with 51 episodes published.

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  The Car Ride Home!

  May 21, 20266 minS0

  <p>Three Key Learning Points</p><p>* The worst thing you can do is ask them to analyse what went wrong.</p><p>* The car ride home is not the time to coach - even if you ARE a coach.</p><p>* What they need most in that moment is unconditional love and acceptance.</p><p>This post is ostensibly for swimming parents but it’s a good one for coaches too - because part of your job is educating the parents in your program on how to handle the big moments.</p><p>So here’s the scenario. </p><p>Yo...

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  The Power of Coaching Through Questioning!

  May 18, 20265 minS0

  <p>Three Key Learning Points:</p><p>* The “sage on a stage” coaching model is failing teenage athletes and contributing to the dropout crisis.</p><p>* If a swimmer solves the problem they own the solution - and ownership leads to self-responsibility which changes everything.</p><p>* Coaching through questioning isn’t “soft or weak” - it’s exactly how the best teachers and university lecturers operate.</p><p>When you ask most adults about the coaches they had when they were growing up they will often describe very similar experiences:</p><p>The coach spoke. A lot. </p><p>The coach ga...

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  Whoever Wins the Start Wins the Race

  May 12, 20264 minS0

  <p>Three Key Learning Points:</p><p>* First movement matters - what part of the swimmer’s body moves first usually determines the success of their first 15 metres.</p><p>* The “little hole” - hands together, feet together, body in streamline before entry.</p><p>* The “three kicks” - kick fast underwater, kick fast to the surface, kick INTO the stroke.</p><p>There’s a lot of talk on the internet about swimming speed - what pure speed is, how to develop it, how to coach it. Feel free to go internet-deep-diving for what it’s worth. </p><p>But here’s an...

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  The 5 Hs: Biomechanics Made Simple

  Apr 13, 20268 minS0

  <p>Forget Bernoulli. Forget precise hand pitch angles. </p><p>Forget complex angular analysis. Let’s make swimming biomechanics practical for every coach.</p><p>The Problem With Traditional Biomechanics Education</p><p>Coaching courses love to throw physics at new coaches. Bernoulli’s principle. Lift versus drag propulsion. Optimal elbow angles of 127 degrees. Angular velocity calculations.</p><p>Meanwhile, in the REAL world, the coach is standing alone on deck with a whistle, 20 kids in the water and no idea how any of that “hand pitch angle” stuff helps them fix little Timmy’s freestyle.</p><p>We’ve made biomech...

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  The PACE Model: Training Zones Made Simple

  Apr 9, 20269 minS0

  <p>We’ve overcomplicated training zones for beginner coaches and it’s time to fix it.</p><p>The Problem With Current Models</p><p>Most coaching education programs throw 6 or 7 different training zones at first year coaches. Threshold, VO2 max, lactate tolerance, aerobic endurance, race pace, recovery, anaerobic power; the list goes on and on.</p><p>Here’s the reality: you’ve got 25 kids in the pool, three lanes, two hours, and you’re trying to remember the difference between Zone 4a and Zone 4b.</p><p>It doesn’t work. </p><p>It’s not practical. </p><p>And it’s not...

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