Regional Age Group - Notice Board: May 2010

Thursday 27 May 2010

A few little Reminders....

Hello,

A few things over the last couple of weeks that me and Kevin would like to remind you about are listed below:

Our sessions start at least 10 minutes before we get in the pool. This is vital to loosen yourself off before you get in to swim, so please make sure you are here for 10 minutes before the session wherever possible.
Water bottles, Please make sure they end up in the bin when you finished at the end of a session, and do not leave them on the side of the pool. We have had a complaint about the mess we have left at the end of a session, and it is the swimmers responsibility to move the bottles.
I have also noticed a lot of swimmers not paying attention when me and Kevin are talking, this sounds pathetic and a little bit picky, but when you have to repeat yourself 4 times to the people that didn't listen this gets a little annoying, and is a waste of time.

Please note this does by all means not apply to the majority of swimmers, but if you can make them aware of these points above we would greatly appreciate it.

Keep up the hard work and remember, ’Practice doesn't make perfect, Perfect Practice does'.

Yours,

Ryan.

Wednesday 26 May 2010

Ryan's Level One!

Just thought some of you might like to know that I passed my 'Level One Teaching Aquatics' course, you now have a qualified assistant working on the group, which I'm sure is lovely to know.

Thanks for the support,

Ryan.

Training this weekend!

Hello There!

As far as me and Kevin know, training is not on both Sunday and Monday.

We will let you know if anything changes.

Thanks,

Ryan.

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Armley!

As of this Friday night, we are back at the new Armley pool. Its all posh and fancy, I went for a sneak peak.
Here is its address and a map for those of you who asked for directions...

Carr Croft
Armley
Leeds
LS12 3HB

View Larger Map
Click the see larger map link to get directions from wherever you are in the world the pool.

Any questions, I will try help with directions, I live 5 mins away.
Yours,
Ryan.

This weeks quote of the week is a special one!

Hello Everyone,
Hope everyone has continued to push themselves in training whilst I have been away, I will see you all tonight.

This weeks quote of the week is my favorite quote by Muhammad Ali...

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

So I decided to go all out and test my ICT skills at the same time, and pop this video in here, hope you like this weeks quote!

Thursday 13 May 2010

Info Regarding Training

Hello Everyone.

This coming Saturday it will be Lyn who will be taking training, because Kevin is swimming in a competition, and I am getting my head down for some much overdue revision, a register will be taken.

Please remember that it is the Harrogate entries the coming Monday, please do not forget, as there is no other entry night.

Thanks,

Ryan.

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Exams....

Hello All....

I would just like to inform you that due to my A level exam commitments, I will be missing a few sessions over the next 2 weeks. I am sure that you understand and respect that my education comes first. Kevin is trying to arrange cover for the sessions that I will be missing, so that we can maintain progress we seem to be making as a squad.

The sessions I will not be attending are listed below:

Thursday 13th (AM only)
Saturday 15th
Sunday 16th
Monday 17th
Thursday 20th
Thursday 27th

Please still feel free to contact me if you wish.
Thanks for Understanding,

Ryan.

Sunday 9 May 2010

Important info for Monday night! Please read so you can be prepared!

We would appreciate it if you can get all the entries and other info ready for me and Kevin to sign etc before you come to the pool using the PB sheet on the blog. It will save us a lot of time we don't have on a Monday night, especially with the Wales meeting on, thanks for understanding.

From Kevin....

PB sheets are now updated. New swimmers you will be on the PB sheets very soon, I am waiting on some information before I can do this.

MONDAY NIGHT

Welsh Nationals
11yrs+ Boys/ 10 Yrs + Girls wanting to enter Welsh Nationals and has the qualifying times on the City of Leeds notice Board there is a parents meeting at 7.15pm on Monday 9th May. Room not allocated yet, please check notice board.

North Eastern Counties Entries
Anyone who's time is highlighted green on the PB sheet should enter that event as you have achieved your qualification time for this meet.

Harrogate B Grade Entries
Harrogate B Grade on 19th & 20th June
Events include: 9/10 years, 50m Breast & Fly only, 200m All strokes, 100m I.M.
11/12, 13/14, 15 & over years, 50m All strokes, 100m Back, Breast & Fly, 200m All strokes, 100m I.M.
Entry times must not be faster than the times listed in the document to the right under swim meets.
If you are unsure what to enter in this Gala please look at the Gala entry advice sheet under the Swim Meet section to the right of the Blog.

Kevin

Just so you all know, I have just updated the following documents on the panel to your right....
New Pb's
% 100's Pb's
% 200 Pb's
Sports Aid Results Sheet
Harrogate Entry Times (Must Not Be Faster Than)

Thanks, Ryan.

C Central Coaching Team.

Start of Sessions

Hello Everyone.

We would like to just back up the fact that we do expect all swimmers on poolside 10 minutes before the session in most circumstances ready to stretch. Research and our experience has shown that you get a lot more out of a session, and the capability of the swimmers body is much higher if you 'loosen off' before training. This will then, in turn, aid the long term athlete development of a child.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Ryan & Kev.

Friday 7 May 2010

Information about the weekend, PB's etc....

Hello Everyone!

Kevin has finally managed to update all the times from Harrogate and the % off NER sheets are now UPDATED. So click the usual links and it will be the updated info. I am working on a spreadsheet that is a lot more efficient and beings all the data together, so that should be good.

Kevin wants to remind you that training is on as normal over the weekend and if you are swimming at the gala on the day of training do not come but you will still get your mark.

Hope that clears things up.

Yours,

Ryan and Kev.

The Long awaited....

Hello.
Here is the Sports Aid Programme for the weekend, Kevin finally managed to get hold of it.
Good luck for the weekend everyone, please look at the previous posts in the Gala's section for what we expect for the weekend.

Sports Aid Open Meet 2010

Thanks,

Ryan.

Wednesday 5 May 2010

Welsh Nationals

Hello Everyone,

Kevin received a message from Paul today asking him to pass a message on to all the parents that there will be a meeting on this Monday night at 7.15pm, the room is yet to be arranged and will be posted on the noticeboard at the pool on Monday night. The meeting is for the parents of the children who put their names down for the Welsh Nationals only.

I went away with the club in 2008 to this meet and I must say, if you are given the opportunity to go it really is a fantastic meet, I throughly enjoyed myself and it was my most successful meet in my career. I will also be going this year as a coach so I really want to push our squad to attend the meet, as I think the swimmers will gain alot out of it on many levels, team building, national event experience, and some fantastic swims hopefully.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Yours,

Ryan.

Tuesday 4 May 2010

New Swimmers!

Welcome to C Central. Congratulations on your promotion into this squad. Some of you may be a little nervous and may find the training a little harder than what you are used to in D Group. It may take a few weeks for your bodies to get used to all those extra lengths, but don't worry you will all be fine.

Just want to say thank you for all the kind presents and cards me and Ryan have received over the last few days from the swimmers who have moved to their new squads. It really does make the coaching worthwhile.

Kevin & Ryan

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Quote Bank!

"Kevin!, On the whole I think C Central have swum absolutely fantastic this year". Jacob Butterfield - C Central.

"Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit"

"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it". Michael Phelps.

"Train insane, or remain the same".

"Dream. Believe. Achieve".

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get". Michael Phelps.

"I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself ..... I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities". Grant Hackett.

"In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races it's 90% mental because there's very little that seperates us physically at the elite level". Elka Graham.

"The hardest thing about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom".

"We need to create a way of working, and that's why I felt the need to set some rules. For example, we will all eat together, leave the table together - it is all about respecting each other. And being punctual is key". Fabio Capello.

"Unleash the Inner Beast!".

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing". Muhammad Ali.

"Many people say you are as only good as your last race, but we know we are only as good as our next race!".

"It was not the 10 work outs I did every week for four years that allowed me to overcome my competitors, it was the ones that they missed". Graeme Smith (1996).

"It's how you prepare months before in the training pool that will determine your performance at the main event. Your ruthless attendance, quality and consistency of your training will serge you forward to a result you will be happy with!"

"Winning the Gold Medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career, mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience". Frank Shorter (American Athlete, Olympic Gold Medalist) (Munich 1972).

"Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what if's' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win". Shannon Miller (American Gymnast, two time Olympic Gold Medalist) (Atlanta 1996).

"As the years go by I train physically harder and I am always trying to go faster, further and higher. I train seven days a week and at the end of the day, I'm pretty tired but I never wish I was anyone else. If I miss a days training I feel guilty and I know I should have done it. I'm conscientious and unless I have a very good reason to, I never miss a session. It seems unfair to train for years and miss days just for the hell of it, and if I ever start to skip days, I would realise my attitude was not right and it was time for me to finish". Olympic Champion.

"Have a clear goal in your head of where you want to be and never give up!".

"Remember what doesn't challenge you, doesn't change you!"

"Not a day goes past where I don't go to bed with aching limbs ..... I have lost friends over it ..... I have lost girlfriends because of it ..... My family hates it ..... The only person that understands it wants to beat me ..... But I love it more than anything in the world!"

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning". Robert Kiyosaki.

'Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday'. William Rudolph (American Athlete, three-time Olympic Gold medalist) (Rome 1960).

"It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts in the middle of a race; we can's stop and catch our breath; and we can't ask for a substitution".

"We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can".

"In 2004 , I won a bronze. This is a silver. Maybe in 2012, it will be a gold. Slowly, slowly". Eliud Kipchoge (Kenyan Athelete, Olympic silver medalist) (Beijing 2008).

"I came out here to beat everybody in sight and that is exactly what I'm going to do. Sure, I can do anything". Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson (American Athlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist) (Los Angeles 1932).

"Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualisation. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was going to be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally". Michael Phelps. (6 Gold Medals, 2004 Olympic Games).

"Success comes with determination to get up the morning after the hardest practice of your life and do it all over again!"

"There is nothing like the smell of chlorine in the morning, and nothing like the smell of victory in the evening"

"Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment and quit worrying bout winning and losing". Matt Biondi. (American Swimmer, eight-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992).

"You only get one shot, go out there and do your best". Chad le Clos (200m Butterfly Champion).

"No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them". Danny Harris. (American Athlete, Olympic Silver Medallist. Los Angeles 1984).

"When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from". Ian Thorpe.

"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let other swimmers think about me, not me about them". Amanda Beard.

"An athlete cannot race with money in his pockets. He must race with hope in his heart and dreams in his head". Emil Zatopek. (Four Time Olympic Gold Medallist).

"If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from". Ian Thorpe. (Australian swimmer, five-time Olympic gold medallist. Sydney 2000, Athens 2004).

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up!".

"Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow".

"Champions train, losers complain".

"Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up." Dwayne Johnson.

"Life is full of disappointments, failures and setbacks. None of those things can permanently stop you. You have the power to overcome anything that life throws at you. There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Surround yourself with people who remind you that you matter, and support you in the ways that matter most to you. No person, situation, or circumstance can define who you are. Don't give up. cave in, or stop believing that it's possible. It's not over until you win."