Programs
TOWER 26 offers you several program options to gain a rich and complete swimming experience. You’ll receive coaching and training that benefit you by developing efficient technique, attaining specific fitness and training benefits, increasing power, creating a relaxed “feel”, bolstering confidence, and a broadening understanding for the activity. These gains should directly result in much improved swim performances, newly attained swim confidence, and empower you to achieve your goals. Which program is for you?
TRAINING or WORKOUT PROGRAM
These are workout groups with multiple participants coached by a professional. They are geared toward all levels.* Participants are grouped by ability and fitness levels into their appropriate swim lane. The coach administers the pre-designed, but tailored workout for each lane, while giving technical instruction and training assistance. These sessions are geared toward both training and technical improvements, while being tightly structured. Participants derive the benefits of their training programs indefinitely. For your convenience, there are three training program groups: early morning, mid morning, and evening. (See schedule.) *Must be able to swim 200 yard freestyle without stopping.
Fee: $450/qtr. $150/mth. Register here.
SWIM CLINIC IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM – Feb, Mar, Apr, May 2012
Limited to a small group of 12 or less participants, clinics are geared toward all levels*. Three sessions will be staged over a monthly time frame, meeting once a week for 120 minutes each Saturday. A new clinic program begins the first Saturday each month. Although a three successive weekend format, should you miss a weekend session, you can make it up in a following month.
Each program session is designed around a specific technical theme for your improvement, covering the foundational elements of sound swimming principles for triathletes and adult swimmers. This is not a workout program, although the swimming principles acquired from this program are then applied during your training program. You are allowed to swim in our Workout Training program during your clinic month.
Each session is broken into two parts: 1) Massive education; 2) In-water instruction, technical implementation and execution.
Achieving your optimal swim improvement is a patient exercise requiring your dedication and diligence, but you should also demand process-driven instruction with expert coaching. This clinic has both process and professional coaching, while designed to broaden your swim filter through its educational component. Why is it necessary to widen your swim filter? So you are equipped to assess what swim articles to read or discard, and which coaching or coaches to select.
This clinic program will be one of the most important, instructional, comprehensive, and enlightened courses any swimmer or triathlete can schedule.
*Must be able to swim 200 yards freestyle without stopping.
Required equipment:
Swim fins: http://www.theswimmall.com/product/speedo-split-training-fins/
Snorkel: http://www.theswimmall.com/product/swimmers-snorkel/
WINTER TRIATHLON EMPOWERMENT CAMP
by Purplepatch Fitness and TOWER 26. Kona, Hawaii. Feb 29 – Mar 4, 2012.
The purplepatch Winter Triathlon Empowerment Camp at Kona is a fully immersive education and training experience designed to launch your 2012 triathlon season. This exclusive and intimate camp will provide a perfect opportunity to set your season off right, with full and unlimited access to Matt Dixon and Gerry Rodrigues (Tower26.com) and their team of professional coaches.
This five-day retreat is much more than a simple training camp. It is founded on the ongoing concept of learn, experience and execute, in which thorough education and personalized attention to all aspects of performance are translated into actual training and skill development in and around the Hawaii Ironman course.
You will certainly receive a tremendous fitness platform and boost from the camp, but also will leave empowered with the education and knowledge to make smart decisions in your future training and racing. We will leave no stone unturned, as this year’s camp will include one-to-one sessions in the various triathlon disciplines to ensure that you get the customized help, guidance and teaching you need.
Our base for the retreat will be the amazing Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows on the Big Island of Hawaii: an ideal place to relax and enjoy a winter break, but also an excellent venue for training. With a pool for swim sessions and open water access right from the hotel, as well as perfect running routes and rides on and around the Ironman course, the site will allow you to maximize your training and education with minimal logistical challenges. Throughout the camp week, you will have continual access to the coaches for individual and group assistance and advice.
As with every purplepatch camp, you will benefit from unparalleled organizational services and athletic support. You will have full SAG support on every bike ride, a team of coaches and guides on every activity, and daily cleaning and tune-ups on your bicycle. This white-glove experience will take away any stresses of travel or logistics, leaving you free to implement the thorough education into great training. More information can be found here: http://www.purplepatchfitness.com/purplepatch_fitness/Performance_Empowerment_Camp.html
PRIVATE PROGRAM
Private instruction is needed at times by individuals for a variety of purposes whether for stroke correction, motivation, or to jump-start improvement. But the main reason for private instruction is to specifically understand how your personal swimming habits affect your performance. Although we are offering a service for fee, TOWER26 firmly believes every participant benefits from at least a single private a year, even the pros.
Fee: $135/session (55 minutes). Call or email for an appointment. Contact Gerry.
INTENSIVE PROGRAM
This is a 3-week training injection of intensity, volume, and instruction, ranging from 20-27 total workouts tailored to the specific athlete. Also know as a “big training block”, the intensive is geared toward the athlete in need of improvement and willing to make a significant commitment to their swim training progression. This training method is used by many accomplished athletes to bolster performance.
Fee: $900.($150 discount to existing Training program members). Register here.
POW CLINIC WORKOUT
POW, or Pool-Open-Water, training sessions are used to simulate open water race conditions and the dynamic nature surrounding these conditions. These are specific workouts with training sets targeted toward race simulation. For these workouts, lane lines are withdrawn and several buoys placed in the pool to mirror open water race-like conditions, the craze at race starts, congestion at buoy turns, navigation, and drafting. This feels like a real race.
Fee: $40/workout. Free for existing Training group members. Register here.
ON-LINE PROGRAM
Personalized swim training programs designed to improve your conditioning and technique; assist in your understanding of training methods, season planning and race week preparation; and execution of properly structured workouts to maximize your time budget. These are tailored specifically to your needs; they are not computer generated programs. Each session requires your feedback before your next workout is provided.
Fee: Call Gerry.
WORKOUT TRAINING EQUIPMENT