What do your coaches do?

Good day. For any who can take two seconds, can you please reply and let me know about your coach your practices? For example, does your coach put up a workout and just let you swim without any feedback whatsoever? Or does your coach provide you with corrections, tips or pointers to improve your swimming? I am trying to get a sense of how coaching is handled by other groups. Thank you and happy swimming.:fish2:
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  • Hi there! My coach puts the workout on a whiteboard, but adjustments are made for those who are slower or freestyle specialist (our tri/OW peeps). We usually warm up on our own according to the workout, then do at least one of the sets together as a team on the same time. For instance, we may do 15x100s on 1:40 and some folks will adjust down to doing 75s or wear fins. He does work with individuals for stroke technique/tweaks as he sees them. Very occasionally, if we have someone with an upcoming race he may do a separate workout for that person - printing it out so we can put it on a kickboard and work off of it. He did this for me as I was upping my mileage for the last OW race. He'll still check in on occasion to see how you're doing or modify a bit. We're lucky we have a smaller team so he's able to keep doing this for now.
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  • Hi there! My coach puts the workout on a whiteboard, but adjustments are made for those who are slower or freestyle specialist (our tri/OW peeps). We usually warm up on our own according to the workout, then do at least one of the sets together as a team on the same time. For instance, we may do 15x100s on 1:40 and some folks will adjust down to doing 75s or wear fins. He does work with individuals for stroke technique/tweaks as he sees them. Very occasionally, if we have someone with an upcoming race he may do a separate workout for that person - printing it out so we can put it on a kickboard and work off of it. He did this for me as I was upping my mileage for the last OW race. He'll still check in on occasion to see how you're doing or modify a bit. We're lucky we have a smaller team so he's able to keep doing this for now.
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