Swimmers' Log Books
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Elmbridge Phoenix Swimming Club Swimmers' Log Books |
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Log books form an essential part of a swimmer's training, they are designed as a record of their performance and achievements. It is essential that swimmers maintain their log books as they are a key element of the club's maintaining its Swim 21 accreditation.
When Bill Sweetenham visited the club in 2008 he spoke to a number of swimmers about the importance of keeping an up to date log book, calling the log books their CV for swimming.
The following pages are available for download and printing at home to build and maintain your own logbook. The Front Cover is a .JPG file which can be printed from most web browsers; the rest are .RTF files which can be read by most word processing packages.
Every September when the new swimming season starts swimmers are encouraged to set goals for the next year. You should set a short term goal that can be achieved between September and December and then a longer term goal that you hope to achieve within the year. In January you should review your short term goal and set yourselves a medium term goal.
It is important for swimmers to set themselves achievable and realistic targets that are specific to a particular aspect of swimming.
Your goals should then be agreed with the Head coach.
Your log book is your record of achievement and so you should regularly update your Personal best times. Current times can be found on the club website, but every time you compete you should record any new times by stroke on the sheets in your log book.
Every time you compete in a competition you should record it on the competition page and rate your performance, explaining it in the comments box.
These pages are designed to be filled out every month as a review of your attitude and coimmitment to training.
In the first section you should rate your training against the statements on a graded scale. Once filled out you can identify the 4 areas you feel you have improved on that month and can also identify 4 areas you would like to target over the next month.
The second section of the form is for you to record the volume of your training. Each week you should record the total metres you have swum and the hours you have spent training in the pool and on land where applicable. There are also opportunities for you to record the number of racing starts practised, for example in the HVO sets that you do every night, and the number of relay takeovers you practice.
The form should be signed by the swimmer and parent and placed in their log book so that they can be reviewed by your coach when they are collected in.
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