How many of you have coaches that offer some form of dryland training on a consistent basis? It doesn't have to be mandatory dryland, just dryland offered.
If you or your team doesn't do dryland, please list some reasons why not.
And if your team is offered dryland, do you do it? Do you like it? What makes it fun for you?
I'm asking because I just started a small, 7 minutes long, dryland with body weight only routine, offered 10 minutes before regular practice starts. I'm the coach and I do the dryland with whoever wants to do it with me.
What's your overall opinion on dryland? And this is assuming you're getting sufficient pool time, too. So it's not like the other post about Training for a Meet without getting in the water.
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I have 2 dryland routines, and they alternate along the 4 days of practice we have every week. Monday and Friday are leg-heavy dryland days and Wednesday and Saturday are arm-and-core dryland days. The 7 minutes is made up of 7 exercises, done in :20 on, :40 off/rest. A week later, it'll go up to :25 on, :35 off/rest, so on and so forth until we hit :55 on and :05 off/rest.
The dryland for legs includes exercises like lunges, squats, streamline jumps, flutter kick, etc. The arm and core dryland are things like push-ups, crunches, twisters, a Pilates position sometimes called "plank", etc.
Now that you know what's being offered, if you were on my team, would you be jazzed for doing the dryland? How about if your coach did it with you?
Just a thought, but if I were going to add a dryland routine, I would start off with adding two days of resistance training to give them a little added strength since I am sure that they get all the conditioning they can handle in the water. Say 30 minutes or so, focusing on strengthing the major muscle groups. It would be shorter reps and long rest. Give their muscles a bit of a change and a chance to build a bit more strength rather than more endurance, which I assume they have plenty of already.
Just came accross an article on dry land and water therapy. It emphasizes you do the exercises correctly.
The article - 5 Fatal Exercise Flaws – Eliminated!
