Night Owls/Insomniacs Thread Part III

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Rishvol said:
Can't tell if that's a good thing or not
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That's how I feel. If I'd had jury duty I got the night off with pay, but may have sit up there all day. I'm sure after I get to work I'm gonna wish I wasn't there.
 
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Chirp chirp. Where y'all at? I finally get a chance to do absolutely nothing but VN on a night off and never body wants to threaten me! Lol jk drink some coffee the night is still young!
 
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joevol33 said:
I've read that core exercises (planking and such) are good for helping speed with swimming. You recommend anything?
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Definitely, we regularly did planking exercises, leg kicks laying on our backs, 20 kicks or so with 10 second rest times, and hundreds a night, lunges, squats, single leg squats, all improve dolphin kicks off the block, I found that sprinting exercises (on land) helped reaction times, I occasionally trained with our high school track team for increasing reaction times.

Isolating the weaker muscles during exercise obviously improves everything.
Box jumps for breaststroke, long jumps with feet together for butterfly.
Build those hamstrings and quads, chest and shoulders need the endurance workouts.

If my heart was in it I could've done great things, it's 90% mental and 10% physical, as usual.
 
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BEATBAMA12 said:
Definitely, we regularly did planking exercises, leg kicks laying on our backs, 20 kicks or so with 10 second rest times, and hundreds a night, lunges, squats, single leg squats, all improve dolphin kicks off the block, I found that sprinting exercises (on land) helped reaction times, I occasionally trained with our high school track team for increasing reaction times.

Isolating the weaker muscles during exercise obviously improves everything.
Box jumps for breaststroke, long jumps with feet together for butterfly.
Build those hamstrings and quads, chest and shoulders need the endurance workouts.

If my heart was in it I could've done great things, it's 90% mental and 10% physical, as usual.
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Thanks, I will get her to work on these.
 
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joevol33 said:
Thanks, I will get her to work on these.
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Slowly, keep it fun and don't let her get burned out, let her choose what's comfortable and what's not, you could even find a coach willing to give advice n what not to do and such, or even a physician. Young kids and teenagers can hurt themselves badly and not even know it, some of us on my teams were machines and could do almost anything, on the other hand some never attempted to try different workouts, and some did fine but there's a huge difference when you change things up.

Best of luck! Can't wait to see her get a scholarship for UT!
 
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BEATBAMA12 said:
Slowly, keep it fun and don't let her get burned out, let her choose what's comfortable and what's not, you could even find a coach willing to give advice n what not to do and such, or even a physician. Young kids and teenagers can hurt themselves badly and not even know it, some of us on my teams were machines and could do almost anything, on the other hand some never attempted to try different workouts, and some did fine but there's a huge difference when you change things up.

Best of luck! Can't wait to see her get a scholarship for UT!
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I sincerely think she has potential to swim in college, at UT would be sweet!


*i'd not fuss for anywhere that saved me money though!
 
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