Mar 14, 2023 – Swiss Army Team
Last morning session this Tuesday before traveling to Geneva the following day. About an hour of recovery to keep a good feel for the water ahead of the Championships.
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Last morning session this Tuesday before traveling to Geneva the following day. About an hour of recovery to keep a good feel for the water ahead of the Championships.
Overall relaxed Thursday for the Team Armee athletes in Tenero. Recovery was the main focus of the day. The sprint specialist of the group was off in the morning indulging on extra rest and sleep.
Mid-week starting with an early Pilates session by Simone Chatelain joining the SCUW squad for their regular Wednesday morning routine before jumping in the pool. Our sprint specialist had just an hour long recovery workout following the dryland.
Last quick dip at the Tenerife Top Training for the Team Armee athletes early in the morning before starting our journey back to Switzerland. We had just about an hour for a short pre-flight active recovery shake-out swim.
Both athletes went to the gym for a weight session following the afternoon practice in the pool. Our sprint specialist had an anaerobic capacity type workout and the distance athlete focused on aerobic IM and fly sprint during his swim.
Wednesday morning was off providing some extra sleep and rest spending time out in the sun of Tenerife. We were back at the pool in the afternoon with an aerobic and sprint focused workout.
Thursday afternoon with more active recovery including mostly relaxed aerobic swimming. We didn’t have too much time at the pool today and made it somewhat a “nonstop” session.
Our sprint specialist had an hour of active recovery including some kicking and breath control work while the distance athlete had an aerobic freestyle and medley based session.
Aerobic focused Friday integrating some speed work for the sprint and mid-distance athletes of the group. Both of them had quite a big morning session and a shorter evening workout in the pool as both of them were also in the weight room ahead of the swim.
Our guest from Geneva went to the pool in the evening for an aerobic recovery session. The main chunk of the workout was the 3.2k nonstop swim – goal was to keep a steady pace and the stroke technically sound throughout.