NOTE to PARENTS

 We’re back in the water and our first few workouts went really well.  All of your kids were awesome as we worked through what we were trying to get accomplished with the first few workouts.  Parents if you were upstairs watching did you ever ask yourself this, what exactly is going on and what are they trying to accomplish.  

Believe it or not sometimes it will look like chaos but it is an organized chaos with a lot of working parts.  Sometimes it may look like the swimmers are just swimming back and forth along that black line but your children are given sets and what we are focusing on during the sets.  Talk to your swimmers about this because this is key to becoming a better swimmer and seeing good results at meets.

All coaches incorporate drills within the sets given to the swimmers.  The sets will include any number of repeats designed to create muscle memory so that at a meet all your swimmer needs to do is race.  Over the years this is one area that I see a lot of younger swimmers struggle with because to them it's all about speed and being first.  They believe that swimming like that will produce the results that they hope to achieve. Often this is true in the younger age group but you really start to see the deficiencies between swimmers around 12 continuing in their later years.  Some of this gap that you see between swimmers from 12 and up is due to the growth between individual swimmers, the number of workouts they choose to do but I believe that if you have great technique and work on the little things during workouts and develop some endurance before you hit your growth spurt you can remain competitive and good through high school.

So parents next time you ask your swimmer how was practice and you get the typical okay, ask them for just one of our goals in a set was and if they can answer this they had a good workout and were focused.

If at any time during the year you have questions please feel free to reach out.  Good days for the Prep group are any Tuesday or Thursday after practice.  Gold group Friday is best as there are no workouts when we are done.  Junior Blue any Monday or Wednesday is good at the end of workout.  For myself phone or in person is good as we don't have to go back and forth.

coach mike