10 Reasons Why Holiday Training is the Best Thing Ever   Holiday training. Otherwise known as The Time of Doom and Pain. The time when school gets out for the holidays, when swim practices take over your life, when coaches are giddy, staying up all night in their dungeon basements plotting workouts that turn swimmers into Urban Legends, the kinds of sets and practices that swimmers dream about years later and wake up in a cold sweat, screaming, “Noooo!”   Actually, despite my rhetoric, I was one of those swimmers...

CVST's Throw Back Thursday Picture   Happy #TBT to #CVST! - Anyone remember this group from a Senior Trip to Chicago? #MysteryWeek #Aurora #Marmion #Alum  

How To Destroy Your Child's Athletic Future In 3 Easy Steps   In over two decades of coaching athletes I have had the pleasure of seeing some of my junior athletes make it all the way to the professional level.  Along the way I have developed a somewhat global perspective on what it takes to go from this point A to the very distant point B.  I worked with some wonderful parents that contributed greatly to their child's successes.  But I unfortunately witnessed more parents, sometime unwittingly and always with...

CVST Wins 5th Straight Florida Swimming Spirit Award     The Carrollwood Village Swim Team brought home the Florida Swimming Team Spirit Award, from the Florida Swimming Harry Meisel B Championships along with a lot of great swims!  This was the fifth year in a row CVST has earned the coveted banner, which will be hung back at the Carrollwood Country Club Tennis & Aquatic Center.   The team’s theme for the meet this year was Swim Wars obviously based on the new Star Wars movie, which comes out this...

Sports: The Road to Somewhere - Just Not Where You Thought By Amy Pazahanick, Guest Contributor Winners Connection, Growing Champions for Life Parents, coaches, and players each have very specific roles in how the development of a student/athlete will progress. However, here are some facts from the world of tennis, as an example, that we should all keep in mind. • Odds of becoming pro tennis player: 2 in 10,000 or 0.0002. • Break even for a pro ranked #150 in the world: approx. $160K year. • 4-8 years to...

USA Swimming Welcomes Blue Diamond as Official Snack Nut   USA Swimming has added another new member to its partnership team, the world’s largest almond processing company, Blue Diamond. Joining as USA Swimming’s Official Snack Nut, Blue Diamond will provide a better-for-you snacking alternative to USA Swimming’s 400,000 members and will take part in a new digital content series. Read more here: 

Eight Tips for Feeding Young Athletes Without Going Broke By Stack.com, November 13, 2015 Parents know that every child they bring into their family adds to their monthly food bill, and that food costs only go up as the kids grow up, get bigger and reach the age where they can play sports. For parents of multiple athletes, hefty grocery bills are a weekly occurrence. "We easily spent $500 a week on food," says Mindy Gallagher, a Cleveland-area mother of three boys who were all multi-sport athletes. "I would go...

CVST Releases Official 2016 Tampa Bay Swim Classic Logo   CVST had released the official logo of the 2016 Tampa Bay Swim Classic.  The meet is being held June 3-5, in 2016 at the North Shore Swimming Complex, in St. Petersburg.  For more information visit www.CVST.org or inquire at Info@CVST.org.  

Yoga for Swimmers (Video) - 3 Poses to Enhance Recovery   In March I wrote an article entitled ‘3 Restorative Yoga Poses to Help the Effectiveness of Your Taper‘ the video above is an adjunct to that article.   Restorative Yoga is a practice that uses props such as bolsters, blocks, blankets, and straps to allow participants to perform yoga poses where they completely let go of all tension and stress.   In this type of yoga poses are held for 5-20 minutes (very few classes will actually have you...

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