September → Fall Break

• Procedures (intervals, lining up, circle swimming, ready position, etc)

• Review stroke technique - lots of stroke count

• Teach technical decision making (streamline, no breathing first stroke, flip turns every wall)

• Team building (name games, partner/small group work)

• Fast kicking (30% of every practice, ~1:1 work/rest)

• Very simple structure for all swim sets

• Non-simple sets should be kick (heads above water)

• Group correction (start over) for procedural mistakes

• Individual correction for technical mistakes

• Warm up is most challenging part of practice - set expectations high in warmup

• Competition Goals

• Challenge Sets

• Dryland

• Technique