West Side Drill Videos
June 8, 2010 – 3:40 pm | No Comment

So I finally went and did it. After years of stalling and promising, I finally got around to filming all of our most used drills (84 of them) and putting them up with commentary! …

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Workout for 6/19/10
June 19, 2010 – 8:12 pm | No Comment

WU/Set 1-
12x{
3 x 100 – odd rounds are 50 x-leg pull/50 build – even rounds are 75 free perfect/25 drill choice – 1:25
2 x 25 – IMO by round – :35

Set 2-
3x{
2 x 100 kick fast – 25 free/25 fly/25 free/25 breast – :10r
1 x 400 IM – fast – :10r
2 x 100 kick fast – 25 free/25 fly/25 free/25 breast – :10r
1 x 400 IM – 50 drill/50 sprint – :10r
1 x 200 – 2 strokes tarzan/1 stroke fly :05r

8,400 Yards

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This pretty much sums it up…
June 14, 2010 – 8:45 am | No Comment
This pretty much sums it up…
Workout for 6/12/10
June 13, 2010 – 8:35 am | No Comment
Workout for 6/12/10

Clubber, what’s your prediction for the fight?
Prediction?…pain.
WU/Set 1-
6x{
15 x 100
Rd 1 – alt. 1:15/1:30 – perfect
Rd 2 – paddles on – alt. 1:12/1:20 – perfect
Rd 3 – IM – 1:30
Rd 4 – paddles and buoy …

The List
May 26, 2010 – 1:05 pm | No Comment
The List

USA Swimming: Banned Coaches List
Former USA Swimming members who have received a lifetime ban or permanently resigned membership. If offense not listed, it occurred before current code of conduct was enacted, no section applied or …

Workout for 5/22/10
May 22, 2010 – 9:00 am | No Comment

“To get the best out of something, go to what is best in it”
WU-
4 x 300 free – 50 FT/50 RA/LA/50 Breathe 3/50 2 BK/50 6 BK/50 BP of 3/1/1/1 – :15r
Set 1-
4x{
4 x 200 …

Workout for 5/15/10
May 15, 2010 – 7:45 pm | No Comment
Workout for 5/15/10

The 1st annual Running of the Bulls
WU-
3x{
1 x 150 free – 75 drill/50 w/8bk/25 build – 2:10
4 x 50 free kick – :50
1 x 150 free – 75 drill/50 w/8bk/25 build – 2:10
4 x 50 …

Workout for 5/1/10
May 3, 2010 – 11:11 am | No Comment

finally putting a nail into this bitch…
WU/Set 1-
fins on
3 x 100 – 1:10
2 x 100 – 1:15/1 x 200 – 2:30
1 x 100 – 1:15/2 x 200 – 2:30
3 x 200 – 2:35
2 x 200 …

18th Annual Against the Tide Swim – Mass Breast Cancer Coalition
April 20, 2010 – 7:58 pm | No Comment
18th Annual Against the Tide Swim – Mass Breast Cancer Coalition

NESN, New England’s most watched sports network, is teaming up with the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC), the state’s largest breast cancer organization to help raise money for breast cancer prevention by participating in the …

What’s that sound?
April 19, 2010 – 9:22 am | No Comment
What’s that sound?

Lots of small updates…each deserving of its own little mention but none absolutely post-worthy…so they all get lumped together like a big juicy omelet…maybe one or two of them will grow up to be its …

Workout for 4/17/10
April 18, 2010 – 6:37 am | No Comment

Knock the ‘t’ off the can’t.
- Samuel Johnson
WU/Set 1-
3 x Janet Evans on 1:25 base
10,500 Yards

Welcome to the Wolf Pack
April 11, 2010 – 7:59 am | No Comment
Welcome to the Wolf Pack

The WolfPack

Workout for 4/10/10
April 11, 2010 – 6:35 am | No Comment

A man is not what he thinks he is but what he thinks, he is.
-Max Hickerson
Distance Group
WU-
5 x 200 descend on 3:00
Set 1-
3x{
1 x 100 – drill choice – 1:45
2 x 200 – #1 w/paddles …

Swimsuit Conversion
April 5, 2010 – 10:10 am | 2 Comments
Swimsuit Conversion

West Side Swim Club is pleased to announce a new service for making your soon-to-be illegal suit, legal.
We have partnered with a company DG Sport Stitch Plus that will take your long legged suit (male …

Go all the way
April 5, 2010 – 9:19 am | No Comment
Go all the way

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. …

Soggy prose
April 3, 2010 – 7:12 am | No Comment
Soggy prose

“Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had …

The Nubble Light Challenge
March 29, 2010 – 10:50 am | No Comment
The Nubble Light Challenge

If there is one thing West Siders love to do, it’s racing for a long time in big bodies of water trying to outrun their spotters. In addition to having the Memphre 10-miler at …

NE SCY Championships – ‘Five for Five’
March 28, 2010 – 7:39 pm | No Comment
NE SCY Championships – ‘Five for Five’

It is amazing what swimmers can do when possessed with just an absolute shitload of hard-crossed determination. There is the tale of the West Side coach who, despite suffering what was diagnosed as a …