Meet Alex Nikitin

Alex Nikitin

Alex Nikitin is a founder of Parametrix Research. Native of Belarus, Alex moved to the USA in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, Alex clearly recognized the existing wide gap between sports theory and its practical application. The intriguing possibility of bringing the science and the art of coaching closer together has become his lifelong interest. The pursuit of that lofty goal, as well as making sport science accessible to the grassroots coaches, resulted in development of various software prototypes and teaching tools that make sports science practical and useful to swimming coaches of all levels.

Alex Nikitin has been coaching swimming at the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Oregon since 1994. During his tenure at the MAC, he developed numerous Regional, Oregon champions and record holders, as well as National Top 16 swimmers. Coach Nikitin was voted "Oregon Age Group Coach Of The Year" in 2004 by the group of his peers.

Professional Experience, Affiliations and Civic Activities

• Frequent speaker on topics of training design and biomechanical race analysis in swimming;
• Ad-hoc member of USA Swimming National Technical Support Team (NTST);
• Served as a member of the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) ad-hoc Committee on the International Center for Aquatic Research (ICAR);
  
• Author and designer of Race Analyzer™ for swimming;
• Author of Training Plan Designer™, Velocity Analyzer™, Current State Indicator™ - the software applications that assist expert coaches and sport scientists in various analytical and workload planning tasks;
• Co-written articles and developed presentation materials in collaboration with Milt Nelms and Prof. Bill Boomer;
• 1999 USA Swimming Select Camp Coach;
• Member of Oregon Swimming Inc. Board of Directors - Technical Planning Committee Chairman.

Areas of expertise:

• Competitive swimming : training design, optimization and variation of the workload for achievement of optimal (peak) performance;
• Competition analysis, diagnostics and exercise prescription;
• Race modeling;
• Customized software development for advanced scientific applications in cyclical sports, primarily swimming.

Meet Milt Nelms

Milt Nelms (left) and Bill Boomer

Milt Nelms is a frequent collaborator with Parametrix Research. Native Oregonian, Milt Nelms is widely considered to be a leading expert and innovator in cutting edge swimming technique in the world today. He designs programming for athlete development and the teaching of swim technique. Milt’s work is recognized as one of the top 25 most significant contributions to USA Swimming for the last quarter of the century. He lectures, conducts clinics and consults with swim clubs, swim federations and swim schools in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Scandinavia and Middle East, and is a personal consultant to a number of elite international swimming athletes and their coaches. Milt is also a consultant to Universities, Swimming Federations, private swim clubs, commercial swim schools, and other swimming organizations.

Milt Nelms is currently involved in research of the original custom programming for athlete development, adult swimming improvement, swim teaching, and therapeutic aquatics for a variety of situations and circumstances around the world.

Professional Experience, Affiliations and Civic Activities

• Former member of USA Swimming's Board of Directors
• Keynote speaker at Australian Swim Coaches and Teacher's Convention
• Keynote Speaker at New Zealand Swim Coaches and Teacher's Convention (twice)
• Co-producer, with many-time Olympic Coach and former Stanford University Swim Coach Richard Quick, of the top-selling Championship Video Series on swimming technique
• Author and presenter of USA Swimming's annual "Paradigm for the Future" clinics on swimming technique and Athlete Development (since 1996)
• Former technical coach at Metwest-Stanford National Training Center, based at Stanford University in 2001 and 2002
• Collaborator and co-author of "Boomer Chronicle" video series for USA Swimming with Prof. Bill Boomer, Technical Advisor to 2000 and 2004 USA Olympic teams
• Partner in the development of Swimplicity™, an organization that is exploring new ways to teach swimming
• Confidential Consultant to a number of World Record Holders, Olympic medalists of all colors, and numerous other elite athletes and their coaches
• Confidential Consultant to University swimming programs and swimming Federations in the UK, USA
  
  

Areas of expertise:

• Competitive swimming
• Learn to swim
• Triathlon training
• Military applications
• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Human development
• Aging intervention