Larger Nebraska Swim Group – Dryland

GNST is happy to announce a brand new, cutting-edge dryland program for our athletes. Our Head coach, Leigh Ann Fetter-Witt, and her assistants have been working with Jennifer Platt, the director of schooling for Postural Restoration Institute, together with Matt Hornung and Hannah Janssen, to convey a dryland program designed particularly for swimmers targeted on constructing symmetry, steadiness, and power in all muscle teams – particularly focusing on core power.  We are enthusiastic about this collaborative effort for our swimmers as a result of it supplies them with the chance to take their swimming achievements to a brand new stage. 

Another thrilling facet of our new dryland program is that GNST has employed Matt Hornung, a graduate from Wesleyan University with bachelor’s diploma in Athletic Training, and Hannah Janssen, a graduate from Wayne State with a bachelor’s in Exercise Science, as devoted trainers for this new program.  Both Matt and Hannah are employed as Education Coordinators on the Postural Restoration Institute right here in Lincoln.  In addition to their in depth schooling with Postural Restoration®, they’re presently finding out to develop into a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by way of the NSCA.

The Postural Restoration Institute® was based proper right here in Lincoln by Ron Hruska in 1999, and so they now train over 85 programs a 12 months to rehab and health professionals throughout the nation and internationally. Many collegiate {and professional} groups have begun utilizing the science of Postural Restoration for rehabilitation and coaching of high athletes throughout the nation. 

We are excited to have this superb group help and develop the dryland program for our swimmers. With this new dryland program, GNST is ready to present our swimmers with a confirmed, internationally acknowledged program that builds core muscle teams and brings symmetry of movement each within the water and on land.  

 

6/12/2015 Update:

Our dryland program has been primarily based on treating muscle imbalances steadily present in swimmers together with bettering respiration operate. Every train we do has an enormous respiration element in it. We emphasize full exhalation it doesn’t matter what train we’ve got them do. This helps the swimmers in a few methods; it helps them to get a full breath of oxygenated air on inhalation as a result of they’re getting out the “dead air” that doesn’t have oxygen in it. It additionally helps the swimmers as a result of we’ve got them maintain the exhalation by holding the balloon on the highest of the roof of their mouth identical to they do when they’re doing a flip flip.

 

We heard some nice feedback after the primary couple classes starting from “I can feel that my heart rate is lower after we do these exercises” to “I’ve been sleeping better the last couple nights.” The first strengthening step that we labored on in our program was strengthening abdominals by encouraging flexion of their low again together with stretching out between the shoulder blades after they inhale. We noticed good outcomes with these workout routines because the swimmers had been all exhibiting higher core management together with improved respiration mechanics.

 

After the swimmers had been flexing accurately and respiration accurately we added in shifting backward and forward into their program. When they’re within the water they want to have the ability to rotate into each of their hips whereas they’re having their ribs and shoulders transfer both the identical manner or reverse primarily based on the stroke. We will proceed to progress these strengthening workout routines by integrating a number of muscle teams. Now that we’ve got their shoulder blades in a greater place to maneuver we are going to start to strengthen the shoulder/thoracic complicated. The swimmers have been nice to work with and have seen nice enhancements in every of them. Keep up the great work!

 

-Matt & Hannah