COB Open Meet – always held over the Easter Weekend – the dates this year are from the 18th through to the 21st April.
More details coming soon………
Or take a peek at the COB site – http://www.swimbirmingham.org.uk/open.php
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Beeches Masters sweep the board at the Staffs Masters
Beeches produce a swimming master class at Staffordshire counties. .!
THE Perry Beeches Masters’ Swimming Team produced a master class of swimming at last weekend’s ASA Staffordshire Masters County Championships.
A team of 13 swimmers from the club competed in the event which was staged at the Wolverhampton Central Baths.
Jennifer Powell, Ross Emery, Stuart Fuller, Claire Thorn, Tara Leigh Thornton,
Angelika McDonald, Steve Dunn, Becky Smith, Katie & Andrew Gulliver,Jessica Jones, Jamie Keyte and Paul Bates, plus coach Helen Pordage who kept them all in order!
The team won an incredible 37 county titles (including 4 Team gold) between them.
Total medal haul for the beeches team was………a massive 59!!!! 37 GOLD (including 4 Team gold)
19 SILVER and 7 BRONZE from 69 swims. A fantastic day’s work
It’s a great start for Beeches sc New Masters coach Thomas Reader , who in his 1st a few months in charge has made a big impact on performance for the Masters’ Swimming Team, Tom is confident this is just the beginning of great things for the Beeches team ..
Their next big competition is the ASA Midlands Senior Age Group Championships held in Leamington in March.
Beeches Masters aim to promote swimming and fitness among over-18s, regardless of ability.
To find out more call Mandy Blizard on 07793 560698 or drop in to Perry Beeches Pool on Sundays at 3pm.
Perry Beeches Masters’ Swimming Team – Bringing talent back to life…!!
Results can be seen here.
If you would like to come along and join the masters – please email secretary@perrybeechesswimming.co.uk for more information. Be warned – the enjoyment is addictive!
IMPORTANT Membership Renewals 2014
All of you should by now have received your membership renewal packs for 2014 (the ASA membership year runs from January through to December each year).
Please complete (at a minimum) the following documents:
Membership form (1 per swimmer)
Swimmer code of conduct (1 per swimmer)
Parent code of conduct
Medical form (1 per swimmer)
Membership money – asked for annually – either £20.50 (non competitive) or £47.50 (competive) either cash (the correct money in an envelope would be wonderful for when there is no desk), cheque (made payable to PBSSS) or directly into the account – if paying in directly please make sure the name given is MEMB SwimmerName – where SwimmerName is the surname of your swimmer! Please indicate payment method on your membership form if possible. Remember you can split your membership money across three months (Jan, Feb, Mar) if that helps you.
If anything has changed (e.g.moving from widths into lengths) you will also need to fill in a Standing Order Form – there should be one in your pack.
If you wish to enter the club’s Bonus Ball – £4 a month, half the money goes out in prize money, the other half towards the running of the club – please complete the Bonus Ball Standing Order form.
Wish to volunteer your time for the club – please complete the volunteer registration form (or for further info email volunteer@perrybeechesswimming.co.uk)
Please keep the letter that you have received as the calendar for 2014 is on the reverse!
If you wish to have any further copies of the above paperwork please click here.
Thank you – all membership to be returned no later than 21/02/2014.
Seniors and Masters – do you know your Heart Rate?
Tom has handed out Heart Rate sheets to all senior and masters swimmers, and wants you all to get to know your heart rates.
Please familiarise yourself with your own rates – if you don’t have the sheet it can be found in the members area, in members updates.
Any questions – please ask Tom!
Article re Heart Rates (from http://totalimmersion.net/blog/heart-rate-monitoring-for-swimming/) –
Monitoring your heart rate is a great way for increasing your efficiency, your performance output or if you are overtraining and need to take a day or two off. The heart rate monitor is a very useful tool to monitor just about every endurance activity. However when it comes to swimming, you will have to make some modifications when you are doing your heart rate zone calculations.
Let’s say you calculate a number of heart rate zones for yourself using a formula (220-age, Karvorien, Maffetone’s MAF, Joe Friel, Hadd, etc.) and you have your “aerobic” and “anaerobic” zones. Whether you have 2 zones, 4 zones or 7 zones is irrelevant. Your goal is to perform at the highest level possible for your ability, be able to hold that indefinitely and in addition, have the ability to swim the later part of the swim faster than the first part (negative split). You want maximum output in the most comfortable zone possible. For longer endurance activities, that zone would be the upper level of your aerobic threshold. For most formulas and most people, that is at the high end of zone 2 to the low end of zone 3 or approximately 70 – 85% of your maximum heart rate.
I’ll use myself as an example. I like to use the MAF formula (180-age+5). I am 45 so my maximum aerobic heart rate is 140. My aerobic zone is 130-140. Once I go above 140 I am shifting from using primarily fat as a fuel source to glycogen. The byproduct of that is lactic acid. My goal is to get faster while remaining in this zone. If I were to use any other heart rate formula and calculate about 70 to 80 % of my maximum heart rate, it still falls in the 130-140ish range.
However, when you calculate these formulas, they are geared for running, not swimming. In running your body position is vertical and your blood pressure and the assistance of gravity are different than when you are horizontal, where your blood pressure is lower and there is no gravity assisting the blood to be pumped out of the heart and down to the lower extremities. Cycling falls in the middle where you have a horizontal upper body and a vertical lower body.
So, running at a heart rate of 140 feels very easy for me. In fact, 140 is so low, that most people would find it difficult to run at this heart rate because their heart rates would shoot up too high, well over 140. In swimming, if my heart rate went to 140, it would feel like I was suffocating and although I am still technically “aerobic”, I would feel like I am anaerobic. 140 in the pool to me feels like 160 at the end of a 10k road race.
I don’t want you to think something is wrong with you if you do a swim session and a run session at the same heart rate and they feel totally opposite in intensity.
If you plan on using a heart rate monitor take an additional 10 to 15 heart beats off your calculations for each zone and that will compensate for the horizontal position.
Swimming Heart Rate
Your heart beats slower in water than on land because your lower body temperature in water slows your metabolism. Swimming slows your heart rate even more because the water supports your weight and your heart delivers oxygen to your body with less effort when your body is horizontal, according to “The Complete Guide to Walking for Health, Weight Loss and Fitness.” The University of Maryland Medical Center reports that swimmers’ target heart rates should be 12 beats per minute fewer than people who exercise on land. Your target heart rate in heartbeats per minute should be 108 to 158 if you’re a 20-year-old swimmer, 102 to 150 at age 30, 96 to 141 at age 40, 90 to 133 at age 50, 84 to 124 at age 60, and 78 to 116 at age 70.
ASA Course information
Please see attached a list of all regional education courses currently registered – bookings close shortly for the level 1 teaching at Meadowside Leisure Centre and level 1 coaching course at Coventry Sports Centre.
For further information and bookings, please visit www.theiosonline.com
Regards
Jane
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Office Manager
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Membership Renewals 2014
All of you should by now have received your membership renewal packs for 2014 (the ASA membership year runs from January through to December each year).
Please complete (at a minimum) the following documents:
Membership form (1 per swimmer)
Swimmer code of conduct (1 per swimmer)
Parent code of conduct
Medical form (1 per swimmer)
Membership money – asked for annually – either £20.50 (non competitive) or £47.50 (competive) either cash (the correct money in an envelope would be wonderful for when there is no desk), cheque (made payable to PBSSS) or directly into the account – if paying in directly please make sure the name given is MEMB SwimmerName – where SwimmerName is the surname of your swimmer! Please indicate payment method on your membership form if possible. Remember you can split your membership money across three months (Jan, Feb, Mar) if that helps you.
If anything has changed (e.g.moving from widths into lengths) you will also need to fill in a Standing Order Form – there should be one in your pack.
If you wish to enter the club’s Bonus Ball – £4 a month, half the money goes out in prize money, the other half towards the running of the club – please complete the Bonus Ball Standing Order form.
Wish to volunteer your time for the club – please complete the volunteer registration form (or for further info email volunteer@perrybeechesswimming.co.uk)
Please keep the letter that you have received as the calendar for 2014 is on the reverse!
If you wish to have any further copies of the above paperwork please click here.
Thank you – all membership to be returned no later than 21/02/2014.