Rest Week

Greetings,
This year we have a new training method involving different levels of training on a bi-weekly basis. After the "hard" weeks of strength building we have our ever so needed rest (recovery) week. For that week we get to come into practice at 6:30, which for us is a big deal. We also have a less intense workout and we use lighter weights for our land exercises. This program has been truly helpful for all of us because not only do we see improvement but we know what the overall goal is for each week.
At the beginning of the season we held tryouts for team and small routines, in order to keep track of our progression we had another day of trials. Looking back on our previous scores and comparing them to our more recent scores shows each swimmers enormous improvement. We are tested on swimming endurance (laps), vertical height/stability, eggbeater, spins, agility hybrids, push ups, v-ups, splits and arches among other things.
We are looking forward to our next two trials before competition season to see an even greater improvement!!!

Have a great weekend,
~Rebecca

Wheaton Synchro Meets 2010-2011 Season

Below Is a list of our meets this year the meets in bold are at wheaton college.

We hope to see you all come support your Wheaton Lyons!!

Nov 20, 2010	New England Figure Meet
Jan 29, 2011	Wheaton Invitational
Jan 28, 2011 Feb 5, 2011	Ohio State-Jessica Beck Memorial Meet
Feb 19, 2011	Boston University Invitiational
Mar 5, 2011	East Regional/ECAC Championship
Mar 6, 2011	East Regional/ECAC Championship
Mar 17-19	U.S. Collegiate Championship
	Buffalo, New York
Apr 14, 2011	at U.S. National Championship
	Columbus, Ohio

Bollywood

This year our team is swimming to a Bollywood themed routine. We are all so excited to swim to our upbeat music with quick and new choreography. Because this year we are going in a different direction with our overall look of our team routine, we are beginning to swim quickly and with more intention.
In order to improve our skills, we are working on each component of the national team trials standards. Each day we focus no one skill and have a inter-team competition. The winner gets the honor of wearing our special decorated wheaton nose clip for the rest of practice! (it certainly keeps us motivated).
As we are entering our second month of training we recently sat down as a team and set goals for the upcoming year. We determined where we want to be as far as routine training by our training trip in California. Ideally, our team will have mastered our first half of team and will start perfecting the second half. For small routines, we are in the process of picking out music and hope to have them written by Thanksgiving.
The energy of our team this year motivates us all and pushes us to our full potential every practice. With the training program we are following there is nothing stopping the wheaton lyons!

Have a great week,
~Rebecca