Swimming at Stantonbury

******* Robin and Toni coaching this Thursday 4th Mar ********

The set will be roughly as follows:

500-800m warm up - bilateral

200m drills - barrel and stroke counting

4*50m desc. (that means each one is faster than the last)rest 20secs

6*100m as barrel:swim:catch up:swim (count strokes on catch up) rest 20secs

4*200m - rest 20secs

optional 4*50m fast

200m warm down

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The swimming at Stantonbury has restarted and should continue regularly into the future.

Where: Stantonbury campus Leisure centre can be found at: MK14 6BN. Its not far from the car parks off the V7 Saxon Street.

When: Thursday 19:25-20:30

Cost: £2 for adults; £1 for under 18s. PLEASE bring your money and pay we were often short last year!

Coaching: Mark Booth along with Robin Dowswell and Toni Heap coach these sessions. Mark normally sets the session and in his absence Robin sets the sessions. Toni adapts them for the kids. Either way there will most weeks be either 2-3 coaches cajoling you on from the side of the pool and giving stroke improvement advice.

Typical session: Get there for 19:25 for the warm up and briefing. In the water at 19:30 for a 12 minute warm up and then a session which changes from week to week. This Spring 2010 we'll be concentrating on building your technique initialyy before hitting hte conditioning reps later in the spring so that you can be more efficient in the water next summer. Currently the warm up is followed by a period of drills and then some reps where you put the drill into practice with your normal stroke.

Kids: Are taken by BTF level 1 coach Toni Heap. They inhabit lane 1. Faster kids join in with the adults in the rest of the pool.