Swim team ideas?

Question

I am thinking of starting a swim team at my school but i need some ideas for warm ups, work outs, and anyother suggestions you might have. Thanks for your help!!
Also if you know any good swimming related movies/documentarys please mentions the name!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP THIS MEANS A LOT TO ME!!!

Answer 1

it depends on how serious you want to be. I usually practice 2xs a day for 2 hrs. For a beginning team, you probably want to practice a little less.
For work-outs, you really have to base it on the level of experience of the swimmers. You don't want your beginners sprinting fly with hand paddles, but you don't want to have your advanced ppl doing 25 kicks.
Here are a few ideas to use for activities. Tailor them to experience. :
+Work specifically on arms or legs by using kick boards or leg pulleys (the syrafoam thing you put between your legs). This can be used to build strength and form.
+Practice utilizing forearm in freestyle by swimming free with clenched fists.
+A way to build lungs is to have swimmers do over-unders. Swimmers line up at one corner of the pool. They dolphin kick (no arms) over and under the lane lines all the way down one end, then dolphin kick up the pool (the 25) w/o breaths, then do over-unders again going back, then dol;phin kicks with no breaths till you are back at the starting place.

Answer 2

First, I suggest you find a coach or faculty advisor willing to coach you.

Second, you need to get permission and pool time from the faculty and administrators at your school in order to have a school-sanctioned club. If you're doing it outside of school then you don't need anything from the school admin, just a pool and pool time.

Third, there are two books you might look into. "The Swim Coaching Bible" by Dick Hannula and Nort Thornton and "The Fit Swimmer" by Mairanne Brems. The first book has EVERYTHING a coach would need from tips to starting a club to teaching technique to workouts for advanced swimmers. The second is a collection of over 120 workouts and trianing tips. both are incredible resources for swimmers and teams and aspiring coaches.

Fourth, try www.swimmingcommunity.com. It is fully customizable once you set up a quick profile. You can enter in some key data elements about yourself, swimming experience, races distance your training for as well as open water vs. pool. Once you’re done you can use the automated wizard to create a daily workout. It takes all of about 10 minutes to set up and about 1 minute to get a work out for the day. Check it out and enjoy it.

And lastly, check out www.usaswimming.org for tips, tricks, sanctioned events, etc. If your team takes off you might think about a USA affiliation.

Good luck!

Answer 3

The movie Pride is a good swim movief that teaches a lot, plus it is enjoyable.

Strat out by lefting weights, chin up, push up and endurance tets to get tghem preparedv. Have them swim 2600s then advance to 360. Monior their performance.