Last Thursday evening was one of our recovery sessions and the athletes got to choose one of two options. Those swim workouts will work for athletes of any levels and will keep you busy for about an hour.
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Oct 22, 2012 – Järfälla Simsällskap
We did this workout yesterday and it is a tough and challenging one. The warm-up was long because we had been out of training for a day and it takes a while to get your body started again.
Oct 20, 2012 – T2 Aquatics
The Main Series in this workout should be viewed in two parts. Here’s my thought process with planning this type of workout:
First, I set up the Main Series, which is geared toward cycling through a set of 150s and 75s freestyle. I’d like the 150s to be fast, and the 75s to be faster.
Oct 16, 2012 – Blue Wave Swim Team
This Tuesday afternoon workout was designed to target Lactate Tolerance and keep our athletes aware of the feeling at the end of a race.
Oct 15, 2012 – T2 Aquatics
We are gearing up for the Florida State High School Championships coming up in early November. This workout gave our athletes an opportunity to swim with great stroke.
Sept 27, 2012 – Vevey Natation
We have about an hour for most of our morning workouts. Our goal for all of those morning swims is to complement the afternoon sessions or use it as an active recovery “tool” after a hard workout the night before.
This would be considered a recovery session for that week. Yes, this was done long course and there were 25’s and 75’s – I like to think about what I want to accomplish in a workout without considering “constraints” such as pool size. Plus, it’s easy enough to stop half way – keeps everyone engaged early in the morning.
Aug 18, 2010 – Fighting Manatee Swim Club
Long course Wednesday morning workout from my time with the Fighting Manatee Masters Swim Team in Florida. One of our goals was to improve all four strokes to a level where everyone on the team could compete in at least one other stroke than freestyle.
Sep 25, 2012 – T2 Aquatics
We have not been very good with our underwater kicking this fall, so in this practice, we focused on dolphin kicks off every wall.
Sep 23, 2012 – Järfälla Simsällskap
This workout is the ninth straight session at our training camp in Calella, Spain, with two practices per day at approximately 7000 meters.
Week #38, 2012 – T2 Aquatics
I feel that to get a good sense of what’s going on in a workout, we’ve got to understand how the workout fits into the week, month, season, and year. Here is an example of how we start the week at T2 Aquatics on Monday, and then Tuesday.
The AM workout on Monday is not included (it tends to be pretty general, mixing of strokes — and is either 3500 yards or 5500-6500 yards depending on schoool requirements as well as the individual).
Our Monday session is mainly aerobic threshold work, and this Monday we plan to do some IM work (FreeIM which is Free, Back, Breast, Free) to be specific. We are setting up a Freestyle Active Rest set on Tuesday. Oftentimes we will train Freestyle threshold on Mondays and go to “Stroke” or “IM” Active Rest on Tuesdays. I view a week’s worth of workouts as one continuous body of work, so it’s important to me set up more than one day at a time.