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| Welcome to North Texas Masters Swimming |
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| North Texas Masters Swim Team (NTEX) is a year round adult swimming program offering anyone 18 years of age or older a fun, safe way to improve physical and mental well-being through swimming. Coached practices are held Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning expanding to other training opportunites as the team grows. NETX is for a wide range of swimming ability, from those just starting a swimming for fitness activity, those improving the swim portion of their triathlon, to those competing at the highest levels. |
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Required USMS Registration
In order for the North Texas Masters to use the Lewisville ISD Aquatic Center the coach and all of the participating members must be covered by INSURANCE. In order to obtain that insurance coverage each of US has to be a registered member of United States Masters Swimming (USMS). Please get your registration accomplished by completing the attached Registration FORM or by registering on line by going to www.usms.org and click on the link in the upper right corner of the HOME page. It takes just a FEW minutes to do it online. In addition to insurance your membership permits you to participate in all USMS Sactioned events and also includes the bimonthly USMS SWIMMER magzine that delves into training and technique for swimmers and provides leading-edge information that supports a healthy lifestyle, including tips on food and nutrition, cross-training and general fitness and health. |
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PREVIEW OF ATTRACTIONS IN 2012
WMD's (not weapons of mass destruction but rather Wednesday Multitudinous Distance workouts), Open Water Clinic/Campout, Maui Channel Relay Swim, themed monthly workouts (every other month), swim meets (Zones SCY March 30 Southlake), group workouts (min. 2 x month), weekly technique/swim tip focus, clinics as part of workout and any other ideas that might fly through our heads. |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS!! |
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UNDERWATER FILMING - STROKE ANALYSIS
For the remainder of January Coach Dave will be using the underwater camera during practice as a powerful feedback for what your stroke looks like underwater. It is amazing to compare what you think you are doing and what is actually going on with your balance, rotation and anchoring of your stroke. See Coach Daveto schedule a time and day for your analysis. Only requirement is that your USMS membership is current and you are paid up on NTEXmembership. Video analysis will go from 5:30 to 6:30.
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ONE HOUR POSTAL SWIM: January 2012
Sometime in the month of January during practice swim one hour to see how far you can swim. I can time up to three swimmers per workout so PLEASE SCHEDULE YOUR day between January 1 - 31. You have 13 options for getting this done. Results will be published in your SWIMMER magazine that is part of your membership in USMS. Click on this link (or paste into your web browser) for more information: http://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1308&smid=3291. |
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TAAF WINTER GAMES SWIM MEET: January 15, 2012
The TAAF Winter Games will be held at the Frisco ISD natatorium on January 14 & 15. There is an adult/Masters session on Sunday morning, January 15. It is open to everyone. The entry fee is $20 for 3 individual events. Relays are $5 extra per relay and can be set up by January 13. There are awards (medals & ribbons) for all events. The meet is a sprint meet: 50 of all strokes, 100 and 200 free and the 100 IM. Last year the meet was over in less than 2 hours. This meet qualifies swimmers for the state games. |
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NTEX Masters Swimming is Proud to Participate in the 2012
Maui Channel Swim: Lanai to Maui! |
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Start saving now for an unforgettable experience of a lifetime!
JOIN A RELAY TEAM NOW!! We currently forming a team. Join us on this amazing adventure!
This relay race is timed and there are six swimmers per team. At the start of the race, each swimmer swims half-hour legs until all team members have raced. Then each swimmer swims a 10-minute leg until they cross the finish line. Every team has a dedicated escort boat. The boat captain acts as the navigator for each team. Swimmers compete in seven categories based on the ages and sexes of the team members. The grand prize goes to the first team to finish. It is a large, perpetual carved koa wood Duke Bowl. There are other perpetual trophies that go to the winners in many of the divisions. Swimmers on the top three teams in each division receive impressive Hawaiian swim towels with their division and place embroidered. Each swimmer also receives a custom-designed tee shirt.
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| For more information, contact Coach Dave or check out the website http://www.mauichannelswim.com
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USMS Registration:
Click here to register
U.S. Masters Swimming welcomes swimmers of all abilities who want to improve their overall fitness, develop better technique, or train for any type of swimming competition. If you want to get fit, become a better swimmer, stay motivated and meet new friends, U.S. Masters Swimming is the place to be. |
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MY USMS/FITNESS LOG (FLOG):
Fitness Logs (FLOGs)
U.S. Masters Swimming has released a new online service that is available exclusively for our members. Members may now track their swimming and other fitness activities via our new online Fitness Logs (FLOGs) tool. With this exciting new online service, you can log a wide variety of fitness activities such as swim workouts, running, weights and yoga on your flog calendar and track your weekly, monthly and annual totals online. Members who are participating in the popular 'Go The Distance' fitness event will also enjoy the convenience of having the data from their flog automatically included in the monthly event reports. |
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NIKE Go The Distance 2012:
(4741.043 miles to the Olympic Park in London)
NTEX is reactivating the GTD program for 2012 with a team goal of swimming to the aquatic venue in the Olympic Village in London in celebration of this Olympic year. In the past four years, GTD has become the fastest growing USMS program. GTD is a self-directed program intended to encourage Masters swimmers to regularly exercise and track their progress. There is no time limit for the distance milestones, except that they must be achieved in the calendar year 2012. Speed does not count - just the effort to attain whatever goal you set for yourself.
GTD is on the honor system - you track the distance you swim. You enter that information into your online Fitness Log (FLOG) - see previous paragraph. When you achieve certain milestones, ranging from 50 miles through 1500 miles, you will be recognized on the U.S. Masters Swimming website, in the monthly e-newsletter STREAMLINES, and receive special prizes from the title sponsor for the event, Nike Swim.
There is no cost to enter GTD. You may register for GTD through your FLOG in the My USMS section of the website. Even if you were entered in 2011 you must enter again in 2012 (after January 1st). Just click on on your FLOG and at the top of the monthly calendar will be a link to register - it literally takes one click to sign up for GTD. Once you've entered GTD, your results are automatically included in the daily summary reports.
Click on this link to get more information and to see a list of awards for the different distances - http://www.usms.org/fitness/content/gothedistance |
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NTEX TSHIRT DESIGN CONTEST
We need a team Tshirt - I just need rough general ideas and a slogan for the back - I have artists who can create a finished product so let the creative juices flow without worrying about having to draw something (unless you have that talent). Here are some possible slogans for the back of the shirt: "Age, deceit and treachery can defeat youth and skill." or "We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes." or "I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my husband to go swimming." Get the minds working - let's have a design by the end of January so we can premier them at the February swim meet. Winner gets credit printed on the tshirt and one month NTEX free. |
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Stories About USMS Swimmers featuring NTEX Swimmer Dennis Butts
Dennis Butts swims with North Texas Masters with coaches Dave Young and Anna Procious. Butts, owner of a property damage restoration company, and his wife Molly have two children. Read more... |
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