A lot of the time, there is the assumption that learning to swim is geared for young children. While that is ideal, as cognitive learning skills are developing and it is much easier for them to learn, that doesn’t mean that you can’t learn to swim as an adult. Life happens, we all know that….
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Category: General
Swim Practice 4/11-Elevator Set
Today’s main set is known as an elevator set-similar to a ladder, you start at one end of a pattern and work your way through, but here you will go back to the top floor four times, changing how far down you go each time… WU-150 Fr/100 Kick/ 50 Fr Primary 200 as 100 pull/100…
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Reminder-TYR Wetsuit Demo Day 4/12
As a friendly reminder, on Thursday April 12th, Excel is hosting our annual TYR wetsuit demo! Where: The College of Saint Rose in Albany, 420 Western Ave When: 5:30pm-7pm *Hurricane Categories 1-5, full sleeve and sleeveless will be available to try on in the water *TYR representative on site to answer any wetsuit questions you…
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Excel Aquatics’ Logo
For the past 4 years, Excel Aquatics has had the opportunity to work with LaSalle Institute’s Advanced Marketing classes on a yearly basis. Each year, a group of students within the class assigned to Excel have helped with various marketing based initiatives, from branding, to community outreach within Albany NY, and even website analysis and…
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Swim Practice 4/4
Here is a triathlon swim practice emphasizing building (ie starting a single swim slower and getting faster throughout to the finish). The point of the primary set is to force the builds in order to encourage energy conservation at the start of any swim….enjoy 🙂 WU-200 Fr/100 Kick/150 Fr/50 Kick (500 total) 16×25 Fr on…
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Backstroke start challenge
Last week, the popular swim content site, SwimSwam posted a very cool video by Fitter and Faster for a fun backstroke start drill (or challenge as we came to realize) to help Backstrokers learn to get up and over the water on the entry portion of their start. After viewing the video, we thought it would…
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Excel Aquatics: Beginner friendly learn to swim program
Over the years Excel has evolved into a multi level program with the goal of provided the highest quality swim lessons possible for families in Albany and Schenectady. Although our curriculum has changed and improved over the time, we have always made it a priority to be a program that helps cater to beginner children…
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4 tips when looking for a swim team
During the Spring months each year, many upper level/pre-competitive swimmers who are a part of the Excel program begin to explore the option of joining a swim team for the summer months. Obviously, here at Excel we are HUGE advocates of children making that next step, should they choose (topic for another blog post 🙂…
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Swim Practice 3/28-Distance and Pacing
Jumping into Spring, here is a bit more of a ‘distance’ set to prepare everyone for those soon to be longer lake swims….. WU-50 Fr on rest :20; 100 Fr on rest :15, 150 Fr on rest :10, 200 Fr 2 rounds of: {6×25 drill on rest :20 {100 Fr perfect stroke on rest :30…
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Definitions in Swimming (sets)
For today’s practice, you will be doing a bit of alternating between build, descend, and uptempo swimming. Building in swimming occurs within the same distance (ie a single 200), where you start off at comfortable pace, and get faster as the swim continues. Descending occurs over a set of repeats (ie 4x50s ) where each…
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