1. Let's do an overall assessment of you before you begin!
- • Physical Assessment: Evaluating strengths, weaknesses, and muscle imbalances.
- • Mobility Tests: Identifying limitations that could affect performance.
2. Develop a program geared to you, and you alone!
• Strengthening: Offering specific exercises to strengthen key muscles used in swimming (shoulders, back, core).
• Flexibility and Mobility: Incorporating stretches and mobility exercises to improve the range of motion in your muscles and joints.
• Endurance: Providing advice on specific exercises to enhance aerobic endurance - this may also mean involving a specific swim coach to work on breathing and technique.
3. Let's avoid all those nasties!
Injuries too often spoil our enjoyment of events and sports, so let's get to them before they get to us!
• Swimming Technique Advice: Improving stroke efficiency to reduce the risk of injuries (tendon issues, joint overload) and maybe we bring that coach in here too! • Body control: Exercises to enhance coordination, stability, and buoyancy control, essential for maintaining good technique over long distances in the water.
• Recovery Strategies: Techniques for active recovery and advice on nutrition and hydration.
4. Keeping tabs as you progress!
Things change as you train - some things get easier, and some things get harder. Keeping tabs on your progress means we can easily adapt your program to fit with the changing you!
• Regular Evaluations: Tracking progress and adjusting the program based on needs.
• Pain and Injury Management: Physio interventions to manage any pains and prevent chronic issues.
