Monday AM practice goals: A) start metabolism early in the day for optimum digestion and processing of nutrients, B) crush a decent-sized kick set, and C) work on some backstroke and breaststroke skills.
Absent: CG, KH, MB, AB, AB, DO
Good workout for those who were in attendance. For those who slept in, you need to make up for it this week. I'll be here Friday AM (5:30) for Masters practice. Feel free to come in and get the work in.
We did Kick-Swim with varying strokes simply to warmup the body, fully, for the week. Public school athletes only get to swim for 40 minutes, so we keep our focus pinpointed: get a good kick set it, and then get to school. The Team overall did a nice job!
The Backstroke strap work looked the best it's looked today. We had 9 people in the pool when we did this. Kayla and Jack, in particular, looked like they have made some real progress with the drill. Most people still are getting used to it, which is perfectly ok. Let's stay with it.
The Breast dolphin pull drill is also getting better. Rip (who was out by the time we worked on it today) has a nice feel for it, and today Jack and Bean made some progress in the right direction. Jack's last round was 28-28-27….solid FINS breaststroke….and Bean went 32 a bunch of times. Once guys can go 26-26-26 and girls can go 28-28-28….with Zoomers…..we are starting to get somewhere. It won't be long if our athletes are focused on these training markers.
Overall group grade was 4.0….but that's skewed because we were missing 6 athletes from the National group (and we only had 8 athletes from a 25+ person Senior Performance group…which doesn't affect the group "Grade" but it does dampen the mood).
There's nothing better than seeing 45-50 people at morning practice on a regular basis. We have done a MUCH better job with AM attendance this season than last season -- let's get back to 40+ next week!
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