Week 6: March 7- March 11

This weekend is the Age Group State Competition. This means that two out of my six swimmers are on taper (which is when practice gets shorter and shorter each day before states, to have the athletes muscles rest and heal so they can go fast during a meet) so they have been getting out early and not being able to do my project. Since this week is really about the age group swimmers that are going to states practice isn't as important for the other swimmers who don't have anything to train for, this has caused a decrease in attendance. Four out of six of the swimmers didn't do the experiment today so today was kind of a bust. Coach Nathan said that the swimmers will have extra days after spring break to make up the practices that the swimmers missed. 

Today Swimmer B and C showed up. Swimmer B has been placing their hand into the water straight down and failing to pull the water. I told them that they need to reach out with their elbows up and fingertips down to pull the water all the way through. They did two 50s of six kick switch with one stroke to practice rotation. Swimmer C is still entering the water with their hand sideways but today we worked on rotation because they swim freestyle flat with little to no rotation and reach. I had them do two 50s of six kick switch with one stroke as well. On the third 50 I had the swimmers do six kick switch with three stokes instead so that the stoke felt a little more normal. I had them also swim with slow arms and fast kicks so that when they swam the 50 sprint they would at least swim somewhat fast even though they had slow arms that were focusing on their strokes and reaching out. 

In the 50 freestyle sprint Swimmer B went 33.4 seconds. 

In the 50 freestyle sprint Swimmer C went 35.6 seconds.