Jan 13, 2011 – Swim Team Biel Bienne
Jumped in the pool for a recovery session while visiting a friend in Switzerland.
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Jumped in the pool for a recovery session while visiting a friend in Switzerland.
This workout is typical of a breaststroke endurance-style workout for T2 Aquatics, although I think it was written with more detail and thus performed a bit better than what we’ve done in the past.
At T2 Aquatics, we teach the athletes a routine when they are 10 or 11, and then help them refine it as they grow into top-level swimmers. This ability of an athlete to “do it yourself” is key to high-level performances!
You should always start the year the same way you want it to end … with a bang! That’s what the team did for their January 1st morning workout.
This is the first practice from our Christmas training trip at the National Training Center d’Coque in Luxembourg. After spending 8h traveling, the goal of this session was to loosen everybody up and prepare them for the work to come during this training camp.
In 2001, I coached a group that had 90 minutes of pool time each day. I wanted more! In an attempt to get a “full” workout in, I decided to combine my warmup and main series a few times per week. This workout is an example of what I started in 2001, and have continued to do through this year.
We train for great 100/200 flys in a variety of ways. This workout provided the athletes with an opportunity to swim a significant amount of fly, one 50 at a time – with intervals that challenge and train the athlete’s fitness level.
Our age groupers have gone through quite a big aerobic base work phase the past weeks – it’s now time to start to give them speed.
There are a few key items to consider with this practice: first, at T2 Aquatics most athletes stay fairly light with the weight they pull on the buckets.
This practice was swum by a few of our 100/200M Olympic Trial athletes at a Mid-May training session.