This serves as a base to build upon. Later in the season, more anaerobic or sprint work is added. This increases the intensity of the sets while lowering the total distances swum and is designed to increase speed. A taper lasts two or three weeks and drastically cuts back on distance swum, allowing the body to fully recover and gain extra energy and speed for top performance at a meet. Most years, we run a ten week summer program, swimming twice per week.
Membership is limited to swimmers from the previous season.
This is designed to be a maintenance level of swimming only. We are a large club and do have a strong competitive team. About 30-40 people in the club compete and about half of those compete quite seriously. However, the majority of people do not compete. The primary objective of most of the swimmers is fitness.