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TAKING CARE of the FRONT END


 It has always amazed me to watch swimmers come in 5,10, or 15 minutes before practice flop down with their phones and do nothing that will help them have a good workout.

If you take care of the front end of your practice, the rest of the workout will pretty much take care of itself.  Win your workout.  Elevate your swimming.

I am sure a lot of you think that if practice starts at 5:00 am or 5:00 pm there is no harm just sitting around and just waiting until a minute before to start getting ready.  Tells coaches that you clearly are not focus on practice.  How many of you have ever seen your coaches show up late for practice?  Yes incidences do occur in every ones lives from time to time that cause us to be late, but when it happens all the time it becomes a pattern and not one you want to be judged on.

I like to think of warmup as "victory warmup" where we get a bit of a long swim in to make sure we are in working order usually anywhere from 5-8 minutes.  We then go into a small aerobic set on a interval with a mix of drill-kick-swim.  We then start to engage our heart rate with a small descending set usually stroke/ free.  None of this is done super fast so it gives you a chance to get in touch with all your working parts.  If you can nail this warmup it will make the rest of the workout run smoothly.

Maybe instead of walking onto the pool deck, flopping on the floor with your devices you could maybe do some dynamic stretches while talking to each other about the day such as;
  • how was your day?
  • much homework?
  • any projects?
  • anything exciting?
  • what's practice going to be like?
Eliminate distractions as you get ready for practice which is hard to do in today's world of social media.  Focus on the right things, the things that will help you in warmup.  Get your mindset in the right place.  Instead of thinking about all the things that are wrong, move your mind to a healthy place.   BECOME A STACKER.   Stack your good practices on top of each other.

Let's have a good week.
WIN YOUR WORKOUTS



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