Coach Warrenton Masters Swim Team

Notes from the coach:

8-11-08 Wow! How can you not help but be inspired by all the swimmers at the Olympics! The 31 year old Jason Lezak anchoring the free relay, Dara Torres!

4-23-08 Water is 1,000 times more dense than the air we breath! Doubling your speed in the water results in quadrupling your body's drag force or resistance in the water. Our training should focus on the easiest way to get faster, which is to reduce body resistance in the water

4-20-08 Mike King Drops his Trathalon swim time from 30 min to 20 min. Congratulations Mike! He has been working hard on technique all Winter and it is paying off. knock off a few more min next swim Mike!

4-13-08 Stephanie, Troy, and Tod worked hard and broke team this weekend at the Zone Championships in every event they swam in! Troy was .02 seconds from breaking 1:00!

11-7-07 Make sure you look at the Technique section of this web site for new content. We are working on breaststroke this week so have a look and follow along at the pool. We are using the off stroke work as rest. By working on technique now we can then focus on strength and speed the next time around. So think of the breaststroke work as rest and work on big pull and kick off the wall and long stream lined glides with face looking at the bottom of the pull with arms squeezing your head.

11-5-07 We had our first meet and new records were established! Everyone had a good time and did well. We even had our own cheerleaders in the crowd!

10-11-07 We are going to be under contract with the WARF starting Tuesday. Note we will occupy the far 5 lanes. Enjoy! Rotate!

9-25-07 We had a great turnout for the first Sunday Evening workout this week. Every one is getting stronger. It is very obvious to me that everyone is working real hard. The improving group is moving up to the next level making room for more people to swim in the improving lane. Please make note of the swim meets that are listed on the home page. Let me know if you are interested in swimming. The Sprint Classic is a great meet to start off. It is very low pressure and lots of fun.

9-18-07: Wow, everyone really stepped it up tonight. several of the improving folks will step up so we have two medium lanes. Our over achievers worked real hard tonight. Everyone did 200 more then last Thursday! You even had time left over for extra credit at the end! Lets continue to work on the flip turns. Nice streamline off the wall and take the lower stroke first. I know you are not getting much rest but you have 47 hours until the next practice to rest!

Make sure you get out of the way if you are resting at the wall. You might get flipped on!

9-17-07: Please tell coach Charlie if you are interested in participating in the 3000/6000 yard postal swim meet. We swim the race in our own pool and mail results in.
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9-13-08: It was fun to get started today. We had a great group of people working out. Several people came and said they will start next Tuesday. I was excited to see how well everyone got along. I think everyone realized that they went beyond what they would do by themselves and each swimmer knocked through a few walls to confidence this evening. We had three workouts. The Over Achievers swam 3,000 yards, The Medium group swam 2,000 yards and the Improving group swam a little over a mile! Way to go! I am glad everyone was ready at 8:00 and got right at it. I am very impressed with all of your abilities. We will work on conditioning the first two weeks and start technique on the third week.

Interim Coach:

Charlie Tupitza
Charlie has been involved in Masters Swimming for twenty six years. As Team Captain of the Walnut Creek Masters Swim Team in California Charlie took them through the incorporation process. The team has won four World Championships and over twenty National Championships. He has had several top ten USMS national times, four World Championship silver medals, has won the Alcatraz Shark Fest Swim four times, and was recently a silver medal winner at the USMS One Mile National Open Water Championship.

He currently holds twenty one Reston Masters Swim Team Records. Charlie was a Division II scholarship swimmer in College. He lives in Warrenton and will help put the structure together for the team as well as provide coaching while the team gets started. The team will seek a full time coach when it gets to the size to support one. He currently consults to the Home Land Security Industry and is a Professional Photographer