Competition BAGCAT

Competition BAGCAT Squad

Long Term Athletic Development: SwimSkills/Learning to Train

As a member of Competition BAGCAT   swimmers should be able to:

• Attend at a minimum of three (ideally four) sessions per week.
• Perform at County level in multiple strokes and distances.
• Have a positive attitude to training both technically and physically.
• Have an appropriate background of training.
• Have impeccable lane discipline.
• Compete in a minimum of four open meets per year in order to gain qualifying entry times for County/Regional competitions.

The aim of this squad will be to:

• Provide consistency of performance of techniques of all four strokes to a high level.
• Provide consistency of starting and turning skills under ASA law to a high level.
• Improve pacing skills for competition.
• Provide a balanced competition programme.
• Introduce new training skills including heart rate monitoring, target time use and test sets.
• Provide further increased aerobic and short sprint training.
• Implement SMART goals and an Action Plan in order to achieve these goals.
• Improvement of all competitive swimming skills providing a balanced competition programme of swimming training.