Dryland

Several people have asked me what dryland is.  Dryland is a big part of Eric's swim training now.  It is the strength, endurance, and stretching exercises that they do after practice.  Most days they swim for an hour and fifteen minutes, and then have thirty minutes of dryland.   On Wednesdays, they do only dryland.  His dryland coach is amazing!  We love her!  She makes it fun and is encouraging.

Wednesday was beautiful here this week.  74 degrees, nice breeze, gorgeous!  So they had a wonderful outdoor dryland.


They usually do circuits.  This particularly day they ran around the field and up and around the park, then back down.  Then they did 50 jump ropes.  Then 5 push ups, 5 sit ups, and 5 burpees.  Then a shuttle run.  They did that 5 times.

Afterward they played a game of crab soccer, which the kids loved!  If your number was called, you had to crab walk out and try to score a point for your team by kicking the ball out another team's side.  The rest of your teammates, quickly go to their knees and try to defend the side.  

Eric scored with the above kick.  :) 

I love the picture above and below.  Wednesday was a hard day with the death of his fish.   I had offered to keep him home Wednesday since I knew he was feeling down, but he wanted to go.  So glad we did.   I loved seeing him laugh and smile.