Training 290710

Training Debrief:

It was a really short debrief because it was just a normal night of swim with a tweak in rest time. Some of you finding it hard to adapt to and some of you are showing the impatience of waiting for another team mate to get to a comfortable distance before starting... I can completely understand how you feel because I felt the same way initially too.

However, it all turned out to be fine after everyone gets warmed up and focused on the swim set itself and also the rest time available. Am glad it turned out to be good too.

Let me just share that this is actually the way how EVERY team out there train as there is a limited amount of space. As the number of people in the team are increasing, there is also an increasing concern from the lifeguards taking us as a nuisance and chasing all the people out of the sheltered "learning/teaching" pool since we already know how to swim. As your coach/representative, I've been trying my best to maintain a good r/s with the lifeguards but trust me there is only so much I can do and if some people were to sabotage me as your coach then we may not be allowed to train in such a huge group too. I don't know how but then it definitely can result in a pretty ugly situation unless we book the lanes and let the money do the talking.

So tonight was just a pre-empt that in the event of a crowded wednesday night, we can still employ such lane usage tactics to have a good swim. All it takes is a little bit of patience and also initiative to improvise the rest time in the situation where the leading person is not fast enough or another person behind is playing punk trying to go hard all the time.. We're all humans with good brains and thus we should be able to come up with something to make the swim go smoothly like we did tonight right? :)

Generally the idea is that this counter-clockwise swim allows a staggered launching of each individual giving the space needed and also equal time rest for each of you if the groups are segregated into equally fast people. Which, in reality is really hard to find.

In the most perfect situation, when everyone's the same speed in a group, if I start the leader then stagger every 5 seconds to start another.. ideally, the leader comes back to have 5 seconds rest and when he goes, the following one will reach to take his 5 seconds of rest. I hope this is easily digested.

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Warmup
300m

Main set:
6x100 Easy 20-5-5 secs rest

2mins rest

4x100 Medium 20-5-5 secs rest

2mins rest

2x100 Race 2mins rest in between

Cooldown
200m Breast stroke

Well done guys!
Til next week!

Cheers
KK