Spirited swimming discussions make coaches and swimmers better You might think your role as a swimmer is to take your coach’s instructions as a one-way conversation. But you need to make swimming a two-way discourse. Being willing to discuss your training and find out why coaches do what they do is essential to your training. Swimming (and coaching) is not “one size fits all.” And coaches spend their whole career borrowing from other coaches. Coaches see a set they like and run that in practice one day. If they come...