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This morning, our practice was designed for P200. It was expected from all our student athletes to come ready to go FAST in the morning.
Good solid warm-up with a focus on IM, specifically the cross-over turn. Pre-set is off the blocks to get some dive work in. Main-set today is broken swims.
Light warm-up today and longer than average pre-set. Main set today is 30×100. The butterfly inclined athletes will swim butterfly, everyone else will swim freestyle.
We went back to work after a three day meet today. We don’t have a lot of time left in the season, and my Senior training group needs to hit it pretty hard for the next two weeks.
Every Friday, the athletes swim a set called “Animal Kick”. It is 10×100’s HARD KICK. At the end of the set, I either want to know the athletes approximate average or their total time.
This AM workout allowed the swimmers to move around and get a lot of different types of work in. It also included some dryland work.
It has become apparent to me that my athletes will not continue their improvement without beginning to do their share of “Fartlek” training. I’ve started to put “Fartlek” work into more of our workouts, and on Wednesday mornings, I’ve added it to our normal kicking and pulling routine.
The main set is geared towards the 400 IM. It is challenging and the kids will have to work hard to meet the goal of the set . . .
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Everyone has their version of the 100×100 set. Here is the set that I had done with the high school team I used to coach. The time interval is not extremly taxing but just getting through the workout is tough mentally.
This workout is a Post-Graduate Meet-prep workout done by Erika Erndl 9 days out of our Winter Nationals meet in Austin. At the meet, Erika swam 3 events in 3 lifetime best times!