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Threshold focused week of training for the Junior & Senior group starting with another short Monday evening practice. Just like the past two Mondays, the athletes were split into three groups with each of them starting their session with some stretching before jumping in the pool.
Single session Thursday this week with all of the team swimming in the morning due to pool closure in the afternoon because of a public holiday in Switzerland. Almost exclusively kicking focused session including sprint work.
Short recovery focused Monday evening practice for the crew in Solothurn. As last week, each training group started with a stretch before jumping in the pool.
Aerobic and sprint focused Thursday incorporating main stroke work in the morning with the sports class and plenty of kicking in the evening with the full team.
Short recovery and sprint focused Monday evening practice for the Junior and Senior group to kick-off this new week. The athletes were split into three groups with each of them starting their session with some stretching before jumping in the pool.
This week’s Friday evening session was our last practice under the balloon at the Sportzentrum Zuchwil before they will prepare the pool for the outdoor season.
Wednesday evening with our second threshold focused session this week moving up to repeats of 100’s following our Monday workout. We are still not doing anything “crazy” and slowly increasing the overall intensity and “percentage” of threshold work per session.
Overall aerobic focused Thursday of training for the Junior & Senior group including speed work in the morning while swimming short course and splitting into groups during the long course evening practice for more “individualized” sets.
Thursday evening workout for the Senior & Junior group including “R&R” (race pace & recovery). Although the focus was on the race pace efforts, we were also aiming to provide enough recovery with “our taper meet” coming up on the weekend.
Second evening of our 2 day racing practices. The athletes were given time for their meet warm-up routine and to change into their race suits. They got to choose “just” one event before we had everybody swim down together.