I'm a coach of a middle school girls swimming team. I'm planning on doing a Christmas swim where I pull different activities from a hat, and they do them. The activities are silly things like feet first 50, corkscrew 50, Santa's slay (pull another swimming while they hold onto your fee) stuff like that. I was wondering if you guys had any ideas for some fun things kinda like that.
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One of my favorites is the t-shirt relay. Gather an assortment of size XL t-shirts (nothing small, it won't be as fun). Start relay with first swimmer on deck with shirt in hand. On start, swimmer #1 dons the shirt, swims a 50, then must exit, remove shirt, and hand to next swimmer who puts on the shirt, swims a 50, etc.
If your facility is cool enough (mine isn't), buy a $2.59 Santa hat and wear for the occasion.That's a great idea, if I can get the T-shirts.
You can also take the lane lines out and have them play water polo in the deepend with chairs as goals. Just be careful--even if you tell them to keep the contact minimal, it seems like it always gets a little heated. Still, very fun alternative to swimming back and forth and "staying within the lines."
Yeah we'll probably do something like this when we run out of things to do. Marco Polo too. That other stuff sounds too complicated XD
The Secret Santa of Swimming Sets
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Lol that sounds hard. My high school swim coach did something like this to us. We swam a regular hour and a half of practice, and before that we were in the weight room for half an hour. Then he decided to pull out the toughest set I can remember doing ever. 10 300s, your stroke, timed. ...my stroke was butterfly. But lucky for me I was able to alternate between free and fly.
One of my favorites is the t-shirt relay. Gather an assortment of size XL t-shirts (nothing small, it won't be as fun). Start relay with first swimmer on deck with shirt in hand. On start, swimmer #1 dons the shirt, swims a 50, then must exit, remove shirt, and hand to next swimmer who puts on the shirt, swims a 50, etc.
If your facility is cool enough (mine isn't), buy a $2.59 Santa hat and wear for the occasion.That's a great idea, if I can get the T-shirts.
You can also take the lane lines out and have them play water polo in the deepend with chairs as goals. Just be careful--even if you tell them to keep the contact minimal, it seems like it always gets a little heated. Still, very fun alternative to swimming back and forth and "staying within the lines."
Yeah we'll probably do something like this when we run out of things to do. Marco Polo too. That other stuff sounds too complicated XD
The Secret Santa of Swimming Sets
the17thman.typepad.com/.../the-secret-santa-of-swimming-sets.html
Lol that sounds hard. My high school swim coach did something like this to us. We swam a regular hour and a half of practice, and before that we were in the weight room for half an hour. Then he decided to pull out the toughest set I can remember doing ever. 10 300s, your stroke, timed. ...my stroke was butterfly. But lucky for me I was able to alternate between free and fly.
