I have been swimming for my high school for three years and now that are season is over I have been trying to get to the pool a couple times a week but its a little hard becouse it is a thirty minute drive. There is a small gym about 5 minutes away from my house that has all the same cardio and weight training things that the larger gym has except it doesn't have a pool. I was wanting to knew what dryland workouts I could do in the gym closest to me on hte days that I can't get in town. If anyone has any reccomendations for me I wuold really appreciate it. Thanks
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We really did not know about plyometrics.
We used to play corner tag at our pool, not allowed in any pool that I know of today. During this game we were not allowed to swim. We ran the deck and had to jump in the pool at each corner and hop out. We would jump out using our legs with the hands on the side push down with the hands and land on the deck with our feet. Run or jump into the shallow end of the pool, run across the pool to the other side and hop out again.
We would go to the beach and sprint up the sand dunnes or to the nearest ski hill and see who could get to the top first.
Bicycle tag was on a set course. After you were tagged you had to count to twenty and the chase was on, the group would start the trip from Hamilton to McMaster University then to Dundas, 7 miles from Hamilton up the Ancaster hill, back to Hamilton. Then we would bike around Hamilton bay to Burlington Ontario, to Lakeland beach then have our hot dogs at the beach. If the lake was warm enough a swim, if it was cold, we knew that Burlinton Beach Canal was always warm. Then the bike chase was on again, to Stoney Creek (where the Canadians Beat the Americans in the war of 1812) then back to downtown Hamilton. Trip about fifty miles total, next time in Hamilton I will check it out.
