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By Teri McKeever (with Michael J. Stott)

I call Natalie "Speed Racer", and with good reason. Not only does she currently hold 22 world and American records, but also I can't ever remember telling her to "pick it up." In fact, she's been picking it up_and putting it down_on the world's best swimmers ever since she returned from a shoulder injury that undermined her chances for a spot on the 2000 Olympic team.

Natalie came to Cal with a well-deserved reputation and an impressive distance training base gained under Coach Ray Mitchell at Terrapins (Concord, Calif.). One of the great favors Ray did Natalie was to ground her fundamentally in all four strokes and challenge her to stretch herself.

She also arrived with a need to regain her confidence. People forget that in 1998, Natalie had qualified for nationals in every event at every distance and was touted as one of the bright stars in U.S. swimming.

I give her credit. Eighteen months of rehab produced a lot of doubt and pain, but she persevered aggressively in hopes of returning to an elite level. One of the positives of that experience is that now she really listens to her body.

Ideal Choice
She'll tell you that Cal has been an ideal choice. Our philosophy of power and technique suits her creative mind. We mix and match dryland and swimming components. Among other things, we do yoga and weights twice a week as well as spinning, running and medicine balls.

In fact, one of Natalie's favorite routines is a pool circuit that includes four or five rounds running 15 meters and diving in, then sprinting seven strokes, getting out and doing push-ups and jumping rope, sculling 50 meters long course while standing on a kickboard, then diving into a 15-meter sprint off the blocks followed by an easy swim.

We probably do up to 50 percent technical work in any given training session. I don't think drilling necessarily means low intensity. For us, it's a combination of drilling, kicking, paddle work and kick swimming. A lot of her quality efforts are done kicking or kick swimming. Earlier in her career, she'd experienced success with that. We'd gotten away from it a bit, and now we've gone back to it.

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She is also very good about processing technical information, taking it in and working with it. She's made some technical stroke changes. Previously, she was very linear with most of her strokes, especially as she fatigued. She's tried to "round" her strokes more in an attempt to relieve pressure on her joints.

She gets information from a lot of different sources and uses what fits. Because of her shoulder recovery, she arrived at Cal ready and open to embrace both technical and training changes. ....

She is very purposeful in her training. She knows what she needs to do, and she just does it from the moment she gets in for warm-up to the moment she gets out. She is very aware of how her training_such as the yoga and spinning_will affect her technique and how it integrates to allow her to be the best athlete possible. You don't have to explain that to her....

Focused on the Process
I don't think she's as wrapped up in winning as much as she is in the process of getting better. If she keeps improving, the times will take care of themselves. What's important is swimming well, developing, refining and practicing an arsenal of skills to advance her training. It's not about volume_it's about training to activate those skills under stress, pressure and fatigue. That's how I think she'll get better.

Preparing for the Olympics is a 15-to-18-month goal. It's important to have a plan for that time, but also to break the march into manageable pieces. That includes the rest as well as the work. She has a good balance in her life. She needs mini- as well as long breaks. Together we plan her breaks to give her time to enjoy the experiences, be they weekends or trips with a boyfriend or family stuff....

Teri McKeever is the women's swimming coach at Cal-Berkeley, and the primary trainer of Natalie Coughlin since August 2000.

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