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Maîtres H2O Masters
A coached swim club for adults at all levels of ability

Important terminology or abbreviations

  1. Fr - freestyle
  2. Bk - Backstroke
  3. Br - Breastroke
  4. Fly - Butterfly
  5. IM - Individual medley (fly-bk-br-fr)
  6. Reverse IM - fr-br-bk-fly
  7. Desc - Descend (each one gets faster) Ex: 4x100 desc means that each 100m gets faster, the 4th being the fastest
  8. Build - build within the distance Ex: 4x100 build means that within each 100m you get faster
  9. AO! - All out! Maximum effort
  10. Fast! - High effort, but can go again
  11. EZ - Easy / recovery swimming
  12. SC - Stroke count - count your strokes and keep it as low as you can
  13. Golf - stroke count + time (try to keep it low)
  14. Negative split - the second half of the swim should be faster than the first half
  15. ↓H2O - underwater (usually dolphin kick)
  16. Flip turn - the flip used for freestyle or backstroke
  17. Open turn - the turn used for breastroke or butterfly
  18. PB or BT - personal best or best time
  19. Streamline - Underwater body position after diving or pushing off the wall