This week (Wednesday) our SEASAC swimmers will meet with Dr. Jay Lee Nair, renowned sports psychologist. She will also be part of upcoming, targeted camps. Dr. Nair's expertise will not only help the swimmers with swimming, but also in other facets of life where they may face pressure, anxiety, or need focus. Dr. Nair will speak with parents in the near future.
Saturday Practice is ON
After a busy fortnight of meets, we will resume our Saturday swim sessions at the usual times.
Attendance, training and improvement
This might seem like one of those "duh" statements...
Consistency in attendance is very important for sustained improvement.
We have a long time between swims from Friday morning (or even Saturday) until Monday [afternoon]. You will see or feel huge improvements when you attend camps - this is because you are working your muscles and brain (nervous system) in the same patterns twice a day, every day. When we swim 2-3 times a week, we need to remind our brain of what we do. Our muscles never get fatigued enough to achieve what is known as "overload", - a physical state that allows your body to adapt to training and that leads to improvement, so we are essentially starting again, everytime we hit the water - especially if we don't focus on skills and technique
With younger swimmers we do a short taper or "drop-taper" as at a young age, your body recovers very quickly. We just do more speed work with a focus on events to be swum at the major meet. For our Gold squads and blue squads, not swimming on a Monday is a big mistake! Next year, we will have compulsory sessions that might fix this issue!
