Club News

Freestyle swim clinic

Posted on 29, March 2014

in Category Club News, Coaches Corner

In early February Swim Ireland ran a Munster Masters Freestyle Clinic. Breda Mcnamara, Mairead Coughlan & Andrea Newport attended the clinic which took place in UL. The clinic comprised of a morning of classroom sessions with the afternoon focus on the pool. The clinic looked at Core & Posture for Masters Swimmers. The quality of the 2 presenters was excellent, Catherine Hanratty from Lurgan & Jesus Perez NAC.   Catherine’s focus was mainly on posture in everyday life at home at work etc.. We had a great presentation of everyday bad habits and then did a practical session on some [&hellip

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Coaches Corner Issue 3

Posted on 27, March 2014

in Category Club News, Coaches Corner

In our third article we now move on to Endurance 3, i.e. Aerobic Capacity. Swims are hard with rest from 1 minute, with distance from 400m up. A good test set would be 6*400M max effort with a minute rest or more after each set. Sets such as this are helpful to long distance swimmers to improve their endurance over a long period. It can also break the monotony of continuous swimming and is very beneficial to swimmers who like to swim 200m fly. Heart rate should be 80% plus. The greatest challenge which is unique to swimmers is that [&hellip

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Coaches Corner Issue 2

Posted on 12, February 2014

in Category Club News, Coaches Corner

Following our first article on training systems we are now moving on to Endurance 2. Over 70% of training for all swimmers is done in this system. Again depending on the time you can swim any distance from 1000 to 3000 meters sets of 100/200/400/800 may be used plus other combinations. Intensity is around 75% to 80 % of max effort, rest should be short but no shorter than 8 seconds and no longer than 30 seconds, on your 100s and 200s and adjust accordingly on the longer distances. Swims should be hard but bearable. Sets should last at least [&hellip

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Coaches Corner Issue 1

Posted on 19, December 2013

in Category Club News, Coaches Corner

We are introducing an item called Coaches Corner and hope that you will find it to your benefit. The topic  is about training specifics. We train to a system to suit our needs and sport. Explanations will be as user friendly as possible. In modern swimming set-up we use 6 different types, primarily to cover all distances and types of individual. They are Endurance 1 Endurance 2 Endurance 3 Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Obviously all this is relative to the amount of time you can spend in training.  The above is all about the intensity of the swim i.e. [&hellip

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