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YOUR STORY!

 

We hope that your school year started off well this week and that were able to settle into a academic routine which will go a long way to sailing thrthis year.  

We also hope you were able to get to your pools for a little pre-season work, we are 10 days out from our first practice and when you get to start writing your own story for the upcoming season.

We are going to help those of you in my senior prep Gand Junior gold groups by giving you a little book on day 1 to help you get prepared mentally.  I encourage each of you to make copies of some of the exercises that you will find and use them periodically throughout your journey this season.

It’s always fun and exciting to set up goals plan big and dream big as you start out with something new, but just like with New Years resolutions they fade when that excitement wears away an you realize that you’re going to have to work day in and day out if you want the opportunity to be successful.  This is the reason for these exercises and as your story evolves and changes so will all these other things and that’s okay, it means you are growing as a swimmer and even better as a person.

Your story is like walking down a long hallway of mirrors and with ea h stop, you have to be happy and


proud of what you see and what you can be, without that confident identity you are just throwing all your hopes, dreams and goals into the wind hoping that you end up in a good place

You, are all so powerful and you, have the ability to choose the direction of how both your academic and swimming year will turn out.  I offer you this challenge for the year, don’t wake up that last day having regrets, lay it all out there every day, leave nothing behind and let’s see how we all finish.  

Have a great weekend and if the first week of school was rough make Monday better and then move through the week one day at a time.  Handle what is in front of you.  

WORKOUTS FOR THIS WEEK

#1WARM UP 300 swim 200 pull 100 kick

Pre set with dry land

2x 

' 6x100 free @2:00 

Odd round after first 25 get out 10 squats build the 75

Even rounds first 25 kick fast tread water 60 seconds with hands (not arms out of water) if water not deep enough 10 crunches legs up on edge. (Don’t get water up your nose)

MAIN SET

12x75 @2:00 odds free even IMO  10 push ups after each 750

SWIM DOWN EASY'

WORKOUT #2

 Warm up 

8x

50 kick

100 swim odds free evens 25 stroke 75 free 

Lay on kickboard hold the world for 30 seconds

Rest 30 repeat

PRE SET

12x25 free fast @30

10 push ups

 12x25 kick fast @40

10 crunches 

MAIN SET

600 swim paddles and snorkels stay long distance for stroke

Swim down

1x50 @45

1x50 @50

1x50 @55

1x50 @1:00 smooth

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