Ep 22: Resistance Training for Swimmers (Nicolai Morris - Strength & Conditioning Specialist at High Performance Sport New Zealand)

In this episode I interviewed Nicolai Morris who is a strength and conditioning specialist at High Performance Sport New Zealand. Nicolai has worked with a wide range of athletes. She has a background of swimming herself and has also trained swimmers. Whether you are a swimmer yourself, or someone working with swimming, give this episode a listen!

Some topics include....

Some basic principles for S&C for swimming.

How does training swimming differ to land based sport training.

Her focus for differently types of swimmers such as sprinters, mid distance, and distance.

If she does anything different for different strokes.

The biggest mistakes she thinks are made in strength training in swimmers.

Importance of working on movements with non land based athletes.

How she likes to program in season vs off season.

How she likes to program around taper.

Some exercises she likes for injury risk reduction in swimmers.

You can follow or contact Nicolia below...

Instagram: @nicolai_morris

Twitter: @nicolai_morris

You can contact/follow me below…

Website: www.patrick-wood.com

Instagram: @coachpatrickwood

Twitter: @coachpattywood

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