Aerobic Swims
 

The National Aerobic Trophy is a series of events which aims to encourage swimmers to improve their aerobic (endurance) swimming. The events range from 400m through to 1 hour continuous swimming.

Points are awarded according to the times achieved in these events. These points accumulate to the club and a trophy is awarded at both State and National level each year.

Somerset AUSSI has traditionally been a strong aerobic swimming club. We have won the National Trophy twice and the State Trophy for the past six or seven years.

Aerobic swimming is one of the best ways for the novice swimmer to improve their fitness and performance. It also holds out significant challenges to the experienced swimmer. (Only the super fit and super determined can complete all 62 swims required for maximum participation).

Please ask at the club for a copy of the chart of aerobic swims with the target times for your age group. It may look a bit complicated at first but the important thing is to start with swims that you are comfortable with, participate regularly, and build up to longer distances and more difficult strokes as you gain fitness.

The aerobic events are:

•   400 Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly and Individual Medley

•   800 Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly and Individual Medley
                 [400 & 800 events must be swum 5 times in the calendar year to gain points]
   

•   1500 Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke

•   30 Minutes Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke

•   45 Minutes Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke

•   60 Minutes Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke

                      [These events need only be swum once to gain points]

Somerset won the top West Australian Aerobics point scoring club Aerobics
Trophy for 2005, for the ninth year in succession... Two of those 9 years
(1998 with 9305 points & 1999 with 10017 points) we won the National Aerobic
Trophy. 2002 (7496) & 2003 (7130) second Nationally and 1997 & 2001,
3rd.
In 2005 we came 1st in WA, 8th Nationally with 3798 points, and in club members
/ points scored Zoggs award 14th!