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.
AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP – BEACH WORKOUTS
Affiliate or part-time memberships are for individuals not belonging to our Training or Workout Program, i.e. not a current TOWER 26 club member, BUT would like to attend our coached beach workouts. Interested participants would register as “Affiliate” members to TOWER 26, signing our liability release and attending the safety meetings at the beginning of each open water workout. Our weekly coached beach workouts usually run from May through November. Please collect your blue “affiliate” swim cap which is your required id for membership validation at every workout.
*Must be able to swim 1000 yard freestyle without stopping and 2:30/100 speed for beach workout attendance.
Fee: $75/year. Register here.
Start date: May 23 and continuing every Wednesday through November.
Location: Lifeguard tower 26 in Santa Monica. Barnard Way and Ocean Park Blvd.
Start Time: 6 am sharp.
Parking: Public lot at Tower 26, and Santa Monica City permits.
Restrooms: Available with outdoor showers.
SWIM CLINIC IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM – May 26, 2012
Clinics are geared toward all levels*.
These clinics are designed around specific technical themes 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.
If you desire to improve your swim performance or comfort level for races, or simply learn the proper swim mechanics for triathletes and open water? This clinic is for you.
This 1-day clinic will focus on FIVE topics:
1) Massive swim education.
2) Proper swim mechanics for triathletes and open water swimmers.
3) The most effective swim training program for your time budget.
4) Strength training for building specific muscular endurance and power.
5) Skills acquisition for open water.
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.
CLINIC FORMAT:
10:45 am: Check-in.
11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Educational Talk with Q and A, part 1.
1:00 – 2:15 pm: In water session working on proper swim mechanics.
2:15 – 3:00 pm: break for lunch.
3:00 – 4:30 pm: Education Part 2.
4:30 – 6:00 pm: In water skill building, training and open water practice. (we’ll have buoys in the pool).
Date: May 26.
Location: Maggie Gilbert Aquatic Center, Pacific Palisades High School. 15777 Bowdoin Street, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.
Time: 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Fee: $300 (registration allows you access to our pool workouts during the month of May).
Testimonial: Last time I raced a 70.3 my swim was 1 hour and 1 min. Today at 70.3 San Diego I swam 1.2 in 46 minutes. Took 15 min of my time. Gerry and T26 Rock!!!! …………Stacy Tager
Suggested equipment:
Swim fins: http://www.theswimmall.com/product/speedo-split-training-fins/
Snorkel: http://www.theswimmall.com/product/swimmers-snorkel/
*Must be able to swim 200 yards freestyle without stopping.
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