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Sigma Swim

Mar 8
3 min

Happy International Women's Day 2023!

Hello Sigma Swimming Family! Today is a very special day in the yearly calendar, and we at Sigma Swimming would like to do a little commemoration! Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day, so please make sure to thank the women and girls in your lives for simply being themselves! Without the driven, independent women in our lives, the world would not go around as it does. So, let's take the opportunity to celebrate the women forging change; celebrate the visibility of w

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Sigma Swim

Mar 1
2 min

Nail Your Freestyle Recovery with These Tips!

Howdy all, We hope you all haven't missed us too much these last couple weeks. We resume this week with the penultimate post in our Beginner Freestyle Series. We look to wind out the final two posts while focusing on the recovery portion of the freestyle arm cycle. Although there is still particular focus to these last posts, we would still like to emphasize the importance of mastery of the other skills. Many of the tips on the latter half of this series have hinged upon a fo

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Congratulations to Our State Qualifiers!!!

Sigma Swim

Feb 22
2 min

Congratulations to Our State Qualifiers!!!

Hello Sigma Swimming Family! We would like to take a short break from our Sigma Beginner Freestyle Series, and transition to a more congratulatory tone! With the conclusion of the Texas high school swimming season(s) - both UIL and TAPPS - now a week removed, we find it important to highlight some lovely athletes who have made their names as high as the State level. Here at Sigma, our goal is to foster a mindset of growth and adaptability throughout every facet of life, and t

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Sigma Swim

Feb 10
2 min

You Can Perfect the Freestyle Arm Finish!

Hello all, We are back and continuing to plug our way through our Freestyle Beginner Progressions. As we have repeated over the course of this series, please make sure to spend time on each element of the freestyle stroke to help your mastery. Over the past two weeks, we have focused on the first two sections of the full Power Phase: the catch, and the true power phase. With those two parts of the stroke, we've initiated momentum and looked to accelerate with it. Now, let's l

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Sigma Swim

Feb 1
2 min

Power Through Your Next Freestyle Swim with the Power Phase!

Welcome back friends, We. Are. Back. Boom! Back (finally) with another installment of our Learning Freestyle series, in which we go step by step to introduce the various elements of the stroke. For those of you who need a jog of the memory, we finished up a few weeks ago with our post about the "catch" and working into a high elbow anchor. Now, after our brief hiatus, we look to continue with the next element of the power phase, the true "Power phase", or that which occurs af

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Improving Your Underwaters and Breakouts to Maximize Your Swim!

Sigma Swim

Jan 25
3 min

Improving Your Underwaters and Breakouts to Maximize Your Swim!

Welcome back friends, We return this week with the final of three parts in the "Improving Your Lap Swimming" series. If you're just joining us, please be sure to go check out our first video regarding pushing off the wall! And for those of you waiting patiently on the Intro Freestyle series, we'll be back at it next week. We've talked mostly thus far at and around the wall regarding how to improve your lap swims, and this week is no different. Your push-offs and flipturns wil

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Sigma Swim

Jan 19
2 min

Mobilize Your Progress, Add Mobility!

Hi all you stiff and inflexible fish (myself included so don't feel alone), We continue to make taking care of our bodies a priority with the twilight of the Short Course season upon us. Whether you plan on competing at your local district and/or regional meet, or you're just continuing a training regimen for fitness purposes, we'd like to provide you with what could be an important addition to your repertoire: mobility work. We often feel as though we don't have time to stre

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Sigma Swim

Jan 18
2 min

Nail Down Flipturns for Your Next Lap Swim!

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 wa

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9 Months for 9 Tenths - Practicing to Race

Sigma Swim

Jan 13
2 min

9 Months for 9 Tenths - Practicing to Race

Hi there race-ready fish, Welcome to the world of the grind. You've probably found out by now that, well, swimming is hard. Not to say that it wasn't difficult in the first place, but rather that swimming becomes more difficult to improve upon the more polished our skills become. Unlike a sport such as basketball, where we could shoot a few hundred shots from the same spot daily and become a markedly better shooter at a fairly prompt rate, swimming requires months and months

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Sigma Swim

Jan 11
2 min

Master the Push-Off, a Simple yet Effective Improvement!

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 s

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Sigma Swim

Jan 4
2 min

Anchor Your Mastery with the Freestyle Catch

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 ju

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Sigma Swim

Dec 28, 2022
2 min

Rotate Your Way to Freestyle Ease!

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 pos

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Sigma Swim

Dec 21, 2022
2 min

Don't Worry, Just Breathe!

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 dif

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Sigma Swim

Dec 8, 2022
2 min

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines with Freestyle Kick!

Howdy! 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. The main engine of ou

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Sigma Swim

Nov 30, 2022
2 min

Streamline Your Freestyle Mastery! Learn the Foundation!

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): the

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Sigma Swim

Nov 18, 2022
2 min

ANYONE Can Learn Freestyle! New Freestyle Series for All Ages!

Hello swimmers, turkey trotters, and newcomers! With the holiday season approaching, there's no better time to hop in the water and prepare for those turkeys, hams, and every possible variation of potato. No matter what stage of swimming you may be in, there's no reason to not take this time to learn new skills, or even get a different perspective. After much delay, it is a pleasure to introduce our new upcoming freestyle swim series! This week, we're just setting the stage f

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Sigma Swim

Sep 6, 2022
2 min

Building Confidence - Youth Beginner Series Wrap-Up!

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

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Sigma Swim

Sep 4, 2022
3 min

Becoming a More Purposeful You!

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

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Sigma Swim

Aug 31, 2022
2 min

Keep Your Head Above Water with These Treading Techniques

Happy (end of) August, Adult Lessons Swimmers! Over the course of our previous deep water series, we've talked about a variety of techniques that will allow you to develop comfort and control when in a body of water in which your feet do not touch the bottom. This can include your backyard pool, a local lake, or the open ocean. Sans waves, all the skills apply seamlessly. However, on top of being able to use our float transitions around the surface, it IS helpful to have adde

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Sigma Swim

Aug 30, 2022
2 min

Kick, Kick, and More Kick! Flutter Kicking for Beginners

Hi Sigma Swim and Stroke Schoolers! I hope everyone had fun working on their backstroke with last week's lesson. It's a wonderful option to break up the general structure of learning freestyle basics in a beginner curriculum. With this week's topic, we will pivot towards something that can benefit both freestyle AND backstroke: flutter kicking. Swimming is a sport that requires constant coordination of the whole body. At the grassroots level, we find our kick. Developing a pu

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