Water Confidence

Tuesday's Training Session:

500m Fin swim - no arms

4 Rounds
25m underwater
25m freestyle sprint
1 min. recovery

4 Rounds
25m freestyle sprint
15x push-ups
25m freestyle sprint
25x flutter kicks
25m freestyle sprint
15x sea turtles
25m freestyle sprint
10x pistols
1 min. recovery

4 Rounds
25m underwater - complete a task before surfacing - tie a knot in a line underwater, take your watch off and put it on your other hand, say the alphabet backwards in your head, or put together a puzzle made of legos

This is our first water training session. The objective of the training is to build confidence and adaptability in an unnatural, but commonplace environment. Whether you set out on your own into the marine environment, or end up in the water unexpectedly, confidence and comfortability can only assist you in making it back out safely. The world is covered in up to seventy percent water, and we must be prepared to survive in this environment when so much of our travels take us over, around, or into the water. As a mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife, friend or even just a good samaritan this skill may save someone's life someday.

Notes: Use a pool, lake, river or the ocean. Train with a partner, watch out for predatory marine life, and scale the session to meet your current ability. Under water swims are performed however you wish with fins or without. Sea turtles are performed by lying on your stomach, then fully extending and raising your arms and legs off the deck, next swing your arms from in front of your face back to your sides, repeat for prescribe reps. Pistols are single leg squats.