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As 2016 comes to a close, we wanted to send out one last swim practice to those triathletes who have helped make this past year awesome! Warmup 3×100 fr on rest 20 3×50 pull on rest 15 4×25 fr on rest 10 **Focus on swimming tall and relaxed Pre-set 4×50 on rest 15 descend 1-3,…
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As promised last week, here is another swim practice for all of our Triathlete Swimmers to help everyone stay in shape during the break! WU-200 Fr swim/100 pull/100 Fr swim 6×50 Kick/Swim by 25 (kick may be single or double arm lead) on rest :15 8×25 on rest :20 alternate odds easy, evens fast Primary…
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Over the past few days, Excel has been hard at work with our collegiate competitive swimmers who are home during winter break. That being, said, we have gotten some AWESOME feedback and encouragement with those practices from our triathlon swimmers. So, as a little holiday gift, here is a practice for our triathletes who want…
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Twice per year, namely at the end of August, and the end of December, Excel Aquatics takes a brief 3-4 week break in between sessions. Although we are not teaching lessons during this time, we always have a few families of beginner swimmers ask what they can do, if anything at all, to help their…
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Over the course of my swimming career, there were always times during the season that I wanted to take a break. The temptation was always there, year after, especially during the holidays. Particularly in college, when a swimmer is home during break, and there are LOTS of things to do, it is very easy to…
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Often times in swimming, children enter the competitive side of the sport EXTREMELY fast…..transitioning from a once per week lessons program of 30-45 minutes to a 2-3 day per week program of hour long practices can be a bit daunting and overwhelming for both children and their parents. This “rushed” experience many times will lead…
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Over the past 4 years, Excel Aquatics has been fortunate enough to work with, teach, and coach some excellent individuals. One program in particular that we have had the pleasure of working with for the past few years has been the LaSalle Advanced Marketing class, led by Mr. Michael Levy. Mr. Levy has been a…
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At the end of the summer each year, we always receive inquiries from families looking to sign their children up for a competitive swim team. They have gone through a learn to swim program (many times ours in either Schenectady or Albany), and are looking to have their child swim on a team during the…
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A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to take some footage with our GoPro (normally used to underwater video analysis) of Coach Kevin swimming in Crystal Lake. After a few weeks of compiling the different clips, below is the video. Let us know what you think 🙂

With Ironman Lake Placid in the books for many of the Excel Swimmers who raced this past Sunday, we wanted to congratulate everyone who competed! Coach’s Keith and Kevin tracked everyone throughout the day, and we both really enjoyed not only seeing some fast results, but some monster time drops from previous years. One question we always…
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