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Maddocks Fitness Talk & training changes: Tuesday 22nd April

Posted on: 16th April 2025

We are extremely excited for Craig Maddocks, owner of Maddocks Fitness and the head S&C coach for land training at BSSC, to deliver his presentation to everyone.

The talk will be held in the FLT building at the College (if you don’t know where this is, meet at the pool and we can guide you). Please arrive at 18.30pm; the talk will begin at 18:45pm and last approximately 90 minutes.

All swimmers and parents are encouraged to attend.

The presentation will provide invaluable insight into:

  • Why the move towards Strength and Conditioning training in Swimming
  • The benefits of incorporating S&C into the training program
  • Importance of warming up and stretching, including techniques
  • Nutrition – what should our swimmers be eating and when

As a result of this presentation the following sessions are cancelled:

  • 18:30 – 20:00 – All Junior Squads and Land Training for AG performance & Senior Performance at the College
  • 19:00 – 20:00 – Age Group Competitive & Senior Competitive at Grange Paddocks

However, following the talk, there will be a session in the pool from 20:30 to 21:30 for the Age Group Performance and Senior Squads.

Please make every effort to attend, it is going to be a great opportunity to learn lots more about how to help our swimmers continue to do amazingly well, injury free.

See also: Training

Maddocks Fitness kick off S&C programme

Posted on: 8th January 2025

We are delighted to welcome Craig Maddocks from Maddocks Fitness to the BSSC team!

Craig will be delivering specialist dryland Strength & Conditioning coaching, starting with the Age Group and Senior Performance squads on Tuesday evenings at the College. 

Maddocks Fitness have a long history of training swimmers, and work with many of the top swimmers and clubs in the South East. Craig’s programme will be focusing on S&C, mindset and nutrition, and over the coming months Craig introduce these new elements to training. This will help improve swimmers’ fitness, performance and recovery, as well as their general health and wellbeing – which in turn will result in improved performance, more effective training and reduced chance of injury. 

Craig delivered a fantastic first session on Tuesday 7th January, with plenty of hard work, enthusiasm and positive feedback from the swimmers. Welcome to the BSSC team, Craig!

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Weekly squad exercises – 24 August

Posted on: 24th August 2020

Well, we’d really hoped that we wouldn’t need to get Coach Barry to supply some more exercises, but here we are again! These are your daily workout programmes for this week.

DownloadAvenirs Home Exercise 24 Aug (150.6 KB)

DownloadPoussins and Benjamins Home Exercise 24 Aug (151.6 KB)

DownloadOlder Squads Home Exercise 24 Aug (150.9 KB)

Weekly squad exercises – 17 August

Posted on: 17th August 2020

Here are Coach Barry’s exercises by squad for this week.

DownloadAvenirs Home Exercise 17 Aug (151.4 KB)

DownloadPoussins and Benjamins Home Exercise 17 Aug (152.6 KB)

DownloadOlder Squads Home Exercise 17 Aug (152.9 KB)

Weekly squad exercises – 10 August

Posted on: 10th August 2020

Our apologies – we somehow missed publishing any exercises for the week of 3 August. We’re back though, with coach Barry’s new programme by squad for this week.

DownloadAvenirs Home Exercise 10 Aug (147.9 KB)

DownloadPoussins and Benjamins Home Exercise 10 Aug (148.2 KB)

DownloadOlder Squads Home Exercise 10 Aug (146.8 KB)

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