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WEST program Applicant questionnaire- swimming according to your DNA.
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You are about to fill out a questionnaire aiming to understand your swimming, flexibility and technique abilities, according to WEST principles. The questionnaire refers to males and females as one. Some of the questions include a tutorial video. It is recommended you watch it in order to understand the question.
General information:
1. Gender
M
F
2. Date of birth
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3. How often do you workout?
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A. Not active at all.
B. 2-3 times a week.
C. 3 times a week or more.
4. Do you suffer from back, shoulder or neck pain?
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No
Yes
write the level of pain from 0-10, 0- no pain
6. How many freestyle laps can you go with no break (25m pool)?
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A. 0-3 laps.
B. 4-9 laps.
C. 10-40 laps.
D. 41 and more.(fill in your 1000 m time if you know)
7. Diagnosing drills
a. Diagnosing drill #1 Goal- identifying shoulder, scapula, neck and lower back flexibility level. Extend your arms and put one hand on top of the other, where your upper hand thumb wraps your lower hand. Raise your stream line arms slowly, while keeping your elbows locked. As soon as you start feeling pressure in your shoulder, neck or lower back, stop and check the angle between your arms and your head.
Categorizing your result:
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A. Poor flexibility. I feel pressure in my shoulder/scapulas/neck/lower back, and I can barely raise my hands.
B.Moderate flexibility. I can raise my arms up to 30° above my head.
C. Great flexibility. I can raise my arms so they are level with my head.
b. Diagnosing drill #2 Goal- identify scapula, neck, delta and bicep flexibility level. Cross your arms behind your back, while maintaining straight back and upright head position. Raise your arms behind your back as high as you can.
Next step is categorizing your result:
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A. I feel pressure in my scapulas and I can barely raise my arms.
B. B- I can raise my arms behind my back as high as 30cm (half way).
C. I can raise my hands about 90° away from my body.
c. Diagnosing drill #3 Goal- identify lower back, pelvis and biceps femoris (hamstring) flexibility. Put your leg slowly on top of a chair, a table or any other object, to the level of your hips. Hold your arms underneath your knee and gently bend your head towards your knee. Hold it for 10 seconds.
Categorizing your result:
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A. I cannot bend at all.
B. I was able to get my head as close as 20-50 cm away from my knee.
C. I was able to bend over most or all the way to my knee/ I was able to touch my knee with my head.
Tell us more about yourself and what's your level of pain from 0-10, and if you swim 1000m, what's your time in 1000 m
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Thank you for filling out the WEST swimming questionnaire. After processing your answers, you will be referred to the right specific WEST swimming program for you, based on your Flexibility, gender, level of swimming and abilities. The program takes into account few variables, such as conditioning level, gender, flexibility, chronic pain if at all and age. We will pick out for you 10 different workouts, out of 1000 training sets, in order to create the best technique for you, while protecting the areas of your body, that have a tendency to be problematic, specifically your back and neck. It means we want to lengthen short muscles, protect joints and improve your swimming ability,which will enable you to swim faster with less effort.
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