“WIN”. What’s Important Now

Why do this exercise?  It's simple.  It's hard to improve if you come into workout, jump into the water and proceed to swim lap after lap after lap without a true understanding of what you are really trying to accomplish.  Yes it is true that we are trying to get in a workout that will cumulate in your personal best times at that last meet of the season. HOW DID YOU DO STROKE ACRONYMS FR=FREE  BK=BACK. BR=BREAST FL=FLY. IMO=INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY ORDER IMFR=IMO/FREE. RIMO=REVERSE IMO OTHER ACRONYMS YOYO=YOUR ON YOUR ON UW=UNDERWATER UWD=UNDERWATER DOLPHINS DPS= DISTANCE PER STROKE HR= HEART RATE BP=BREATHING PATTERN OTHER THINGS WE USE BROKEN SWIMS= EXAMPLE 200 FREE BROKEN 50/100/25/25 KBRD KICKING USING BOARDS K NBRD KICKING NO BOARD NEGATIVE SPLIT= EXAMPLE 100 BACK 2ND 50 FASTER THAN FIRST EFFORT LEVEL GREEN=SMOOTH 60-70% PINK=75-85@ BLUE= 90% RED= ALL OUT BUILD= EACH REPEAT GETS FASTER EXAMPLE 4X50 FREE 1@PINK/1@BLUE/1@RED/1@GREEN DESCEND= DESEND YOUR TIME WITH EACH REPEAT BEST A

Thought you were done with school for the day, right?  not a chance.  So last we we had a lot of questions about the acronyms that were found throughout our workouts, so I thought we go over some of our more common ones Get a piece of paper and see how many you get right. Answers to follow on Wednesday. STROKE ACRONYMS FR--BK--BR--FL--CH--STR--IMO--IMFR--RIMO OTHER ACRONYMS WE USE YOYO--UW--UWD--DPS--HR--BP OTHER THINGS WE USE.  DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN. BROKEN SWIMS (EXAMPLE BROKEN 200 OR 500 SWIM) K BRD K NO BRD BP NEGATIVE SPLIT EFFORT LEVEL PINK= GREEN=BLUE= RED= BUILD DESCEND 4X     4X50 BEST AVERAGE GOAL PACE

  It’s awesome to see most of you run to grab the workout for the day to see our saying for the day and to see what the workout looks like.  But hold on for a second, is it a good thing to ask this question “ Is it hard?  Maybe you make a statement such as this, I’ m tired or I hurt myself today at school.  What do these statements do?  They give you a built in excuse to not give it your best today, so why are we here? Your mind is an incredible thing, even if some of you can't figure out the clock and intervals, but that might be a math issue.  When you can push past the pains and resistance that your body has or better what your inner voice suggests are there, you learn a lot about yourself.  It's human nature for that voice in your head to say, I don't want to do this today, I'm tired, skip this repeat, it's okay to get in late. It can go on and on if you allow it. If you give in just ONCE it can change you, maybe not today or tomorrow but sometime in the future