Masters Squad
- Total Hours Per Week: 7hrs
- Age Range: 18+ only
Squad Description
Masters Swimming is a programme designed to encourage fitness through swimming for adults over the age of 18.
Our Masters Squad provides opportunities for people to increase their physical fitness and improve their swimming ability. Our coached programme features regular, structured sessions emphasising stroke improvement, cardiovascular activities and progressive fitness training.
People join a Masters Swim Club for many reasons including fitness, social interaction and competition. The health benefits are many; stress reduction, muscle tone, weight control, increased strength and endurance are but a few. One of the greatest advantages of Masters Swimming is to be able to practice with an organised group that provides active support for a healthy lifestyle through fitness, fun, friendship and participation.
Our Masters programme runs alongside our Senior Swim programme with separate lanes for purely Masters swimmers. Masters sessions are mainly based around a morning programme so it allows swimmers to have the rest of their time for work/family and recreational life balance. There is one evening session on a Tuesday night at Oaklands pool 6-7pm and the potential to build upon this in the future with more evening sessions if the demand is there. But for now, we will be only offering morning sessions on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and an evening session on Tuesday.
Competition is totally up to the individual and the level of participation is entirely up to you, be it lane swimming or competing at any level. Eastleigh Masters squad welcomes all levels of swimmers - it does not matter how fast you are, only how much fun you have in the water! It is not necessary to have previous experience in competitive swimming - you just must be able to swim to a set programme, in a lane with those of a similar swimming ability. For our Performance Masters, specific drills are set focusing on distance and stamina.
Members of this squad will be an Ambassador for the Club - demonstrating the positive attitude expected of an adult swimmer and acting as an example to swimmers in other squads.
Criteria
These are the rough guidelines to the level of ability requirement for joining our Masters squad.
- Enthusiasm for swimming and willingness to train well and have fun, and support your squadmates to do the same.
- Be able to swim 2 x 200m FC, each in a time of less than 4 minutes.
- Be able to swim 6 x 50m FC on 1:20
- Be able to kick 6 x 50m Choice on 1:30
- Be able to swim 2 x 100m FC on 2:00
- Be able to swim 50m on three different strokes, in accordance with Swim England Stroke Laws.
- To be able to do a Competitive Start and have a good understanding of the use of the pace clock.
- To have a good understanding of Lane Discipline and to possess good understanding of Swim England Stroke Laws with respect to Stroke, Starts, Turns and Finishes.
Training Equipment
All equipment should be labelled with swimmer's name and in working order
- Swimming Hat
- Goggles plus spare goggles
- Kickboard
- Pullbuoy
- Drinks Bottle (700ml)