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Olympic Aquatic
Club uses a “progressive” age group program
designed to develop the child physically, mentally and emotionally
in a systematic fashion. A well-defined, long-term approach of
gradually increasing degrees of commitment is essential to reach
peak performance levels during a swimmer’s physiological
prime. The emphasis in the early stages of participation must be
placed on developing technical skills and a love for the sport. In
the later years, a more demanding physical and psychological
challenge must be introduced to the training program. In this
respect, “too much too soon” is more often the cause of
failure to achieve maximum potential in senior swimming than in the
reverse situation. In addition to emphasizing long-term
rather than short-term results, it is also important that we
establish training groups of swimmers who are compatible in respect
to abilities, commitment levels and goals.
At each level, the goals and objectives are specific and directed
toward meeting the needs of the swimmer. The long-term goal of
total excellence is always in mind. As each child is different,
he/she will progress at his/her own rate. The coaching staff
recognizes this fact by making team assignments based on a
swimmer’s physical, mental, and emotional level of
development.
The Olympic Aquatic Club offers training
and practice groups for swimmers of all ages and ability levels. It
is the goal of the Olympic Aquatic
Club to offer age specific training for all of our
athletes geared towards challenging each individual and developing
each individual to the best of THEIR abilities.
Please call us at 360-698-1214 to schedule a
tryout, or Click Here to send us an email request for more
information.
Senior Team
The senior team
consists of swimmers that exhibit a high level of swimming and
workout ability. These swimmers are expected to be mature,
dedicated, committed, responsible, and dependable. Team practices
may include two mornings and up to 18 hours a week during heavy
training weeks. Major emphasis is put on “
Boomer Technique”.
Transition
The majority of time is spent working on
refining stroke mechanics.These swimmers have exhibited good
swimming skills and will be introduced to some training skills and
processes. Transition swimmers swim four days a week for two hours
each day. This is a step up to swimming five to six days a
week.
Age Group
These swimmers have started to exhibit
good swimming skills. Theys pend their time equally between stroke
technique and training skills and processes. Swimmers are offered
practices 3 days a week where workouts last for two
hours.
Novice
This is a novice group with a major emphasis on
stroke technique. This group will be introduced to a few low-level
competitions. The novice swimmers swim on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday for 1 hour 15 minutes. . Stroke technique, starts and turns
is taught in all four competitive strokes
Entry Level
This is a beginning competitive group.. The
Entry-level team swims three days a week for 40 minutes on Monday,
Wednesday and Fridays.
*Boomer Paradigm is based on aquatic stabilization which includes
core strength, body alignment balance and body awareness. Boomer
concepts address emotional and physical properties of swimming. All
our levels focus on Boomer Techniques.
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