Past Clinic: Speed & Power Swim Camp (Ages 13 & over)
Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center
800 E M.L.K. Jr Blvd,
Charlotte,
NC 28202
A description of what was covered at this past clinic is below the upcoming clinics.
Upcoming Swim Clinics and Camps
Within 250 miles of Charlotte, NC.
Past Clinic
Introduction
Fitter & Faster is producing a 2-day swim camp for competitive swimmers ages 13 & over at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina on December 27 & 28, 2025. Please see below for additional swim camps in Charlotte, NC.
SPEED & POWER SWIM CAMP (Ages 13 & over)
-> DAY 1 (Saturday, December 27): Generating Power
-> DAY 2 (Sunday, December 28): Creating & Maintaining Speed
🔽 Scroll down for details on the curriculum!
✔️ Each session has limited availability to provide a focused, high-quality learning environment.
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ADDITIONAL SWIM CAMPS IN CHARLOTTE:
-> Ages 7 to 10
Suggested Participants
Our top priority is to provide a world-class learning experience for all participants at all of our camps. This camp has sessions for swimmers ages 13 & over. Participants will range from one year of competitive swimming experience to AAAA times and faster.
Curriculum
Due to the advanced concepts covered in this camp, this camp is exclusively for swimmers ages 13 & older. Swimming fast requires good technique, efficiency, power, and a hardworking athlete. Elite swimmers are always working on this. At the Elite Speed and Power Camp, participants will advance their skills that apply to fast swimming in every stroke.
- DAY 1 (Saturday, December 27): GENERATING POWER: Developing power will help your swimmer be more efficient and stronger in the water! To strengthen swimming specific movements, the elite clinicians will work with participants on improving power in their strokes, using resistance training and dynamic warm-ups to their advantage.
- Gear to Bring with You: Please bring a T-shirt to swim in, your snorkel, paddles, fins, and a pair of gym sneakers to this camp!
- Dynamic Warm-up: In order to go fast, you need to be warm! The clinicians will take participants through a combination of light cardio exercises and dynamic stretches to get the blood flowing to the muscles, and loosen your joints in preparation to SWIM FAST! Remember: Bring your Gym Shoes!
- Establishing Your Catch to Maximize Power in Your Stroke: The only way to generate maximum power in your stroke is by “holding” as much water as possible. That process begins with “your catch” at the top of every stroke. At this session, your clinicians will work with you to ensure you are grabbing onto and holding water throughout your stroke.
- Resistance Training: Resistance is an excellent method of building power - especially in the water. It also helps to expose areas within your technique that can be strengthened. The clinicians will take your swimmer through resistance training methods! Properly swimming with hand paddles and a T-shirt will add resistance and develop power! Remember: Bring a T-shirt to swim in and your hand paddles!
- DAY 2 (Sunday, December 28): CREATING & MAINTAINING SPEED: Your swimmer is going to learn how to swim at top speeds while continuing to leverage the powerful stroke that we worked on the day before! On Day 1, participants swam slower than they normally swim because of the resistance we added to establish a “powerful stroke”. Today, is about swimming FASTER than you normally swim with assistance from fins and paddles, and by leveraging speed from dives and push-offs.
- Gear to Bring with You: Please bring a T-shirt to swim in, your snorkel, paddles, fins, and a pair of gym sneakers to this camp!
- "Overspeed Training": Practice how to swim with good technique at speeds faster than you’ll ever go in a race, with the assistance of fins and paddles and by exploiting and sustaining speed from dives and push-offs. We will utilize overspeed drills in and out of turns, breakouts, and finishes. Remember: Bring your Fins and Hand Paddles!
- Tempo & Distance Per Stroke: To swim faster, swimmers either need to increase their tempo while maintaining their distance per stroke, or increase their distance per stroke while maintaining the their tempo. We will work on both! Power and technique improve distance per stroke, and overspeed training helps improve tempo.
- Maintaining Technique Through Fatigue: When swimmers get tired, their technique can break down. We are going to work with participants on how to handle fatigue. Competitive swimmers who focus on technique through fatigue in practice and in races reap the rewards of faster times.
- Speed Set: At the end of this session, your swimmer will do a short and fast swim set to practice everything they have learned over the past two days.
ASK QUESTIONS
Swimmers and parents are invited to ask the clinicians questions during a Q&A session. Gain insight into their training regimen, diet and nutrition, and recovery tactics.
WATCH THE CLINICIANS
Observe clinicians swim at full speed and demonstrate a progression of perfectly executed drills to achieve powerful, efficient, and fast swimming.
PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST
Throughout the camp, swimmers will practice what they've learned with some of the world's most elite Swimmer Clinicians and coaches!
Take a photo, get autographs, and chat with your clinicians!
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