Hope everyone in the Gold and Blue groups enjoy your day away from 🏊♀️ and you have your costumes ready for the evening. You have probably heard this from Mom and Dad but stay with your group and be safe. Please do your bodies a favor and watch that sugar intake over the next few days. We all know it tastes good but the hours that follow a big increase in your sugar levels will not be kind, just ask Jackie.
The next two weeks will be a busy time for all of us as we prepare for the Marlin Meet, and the all exciting Swim and Rock the following weekend. As we get ready for this I thought I would spend a little time going over what we have been doing. This serves as both a quick reminder to each of you and gives your parents some input so they know what you have been doing.
One of the big things I have noticed in the first two weeks is our lack of aggressiveness with our walls. We are always 👨🏻🏫👩🏻🏫talking to you and reminding you just how important your under water dolphin🐬 kicks are and how this is really the fifth stroke. We went back and reviewed our early plan and decided that we need to insert a set to address this for all the groups. We will continue this for the next few weeks with some variations to it and also by including something into the sets. You all have been awesome because we have definitely seen the improvement and are excited about seeing each of you include this element into your races over the next few weeks. Above all it’s not a quick fix, and it takes time but we see the improvement, so keep up the great work!
In all three groups we have spent a lot of time over the last few weeeks on our fly and you all have responded very well to what we were trying to accomplish. One of the big thing we have stressed in setting up your breathing pattern. We talked about how you can get away without breathing too much in the 50, but as that distance increases your 💪 need that oxygenated blood to perform efficiently, so remember our saying “breathe, breathe, don’t breathe”. For our swimmers in the blue group it is important to get adequate air in your 50’s but please not every stroke. For everyone we should never be breathing on those first strokes off ANY wall no matter what stroke. Wait a minute “my bad” you can breathe in back.😁
The Blue group has spent a couple of weeks working on counting our strokes in back and how a proper turn is done. This will always be a work in progress for this group as they are growing and they refine their strokes. Just so the parents understand as I look at the program i will stay with a particular item long enough to foster a muscle memory for your swimmer. This way we hope they are able to draw on that in a race. Thus the need for pool time and consistency.Keep up the good work!
The Senior Prep group in addition to working on a lot of fly have started using their tempo trainers during practice and have responded very well as we work on getting their optimum stroke rates.
The always exciting Gold group has been doing a lot of the same things, and we have paid a lot of attention to our transitions at the walls. Parents note we did not use the term turn because it’s not, all they are doing is changing directions and we are trying to keep the head in line as we throw our hips into the wall.
For all the groups we will be putting a lot of speed work in the next few weeks as we get ready for the meets.
Thanks Parents
HAVE A GREAT NIGHT🎃🎃🎃
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