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Sprint oriented workouts.
Shifting our “meet simulation” practice to the morning this Thursday to get used to get up and race “early” (as most of our athletes will need to be ready in prelims to make it back). The session included a little bit of a longer swim down as we were including a little more “speed” during the afternoon workout.
Schools out for the summer and we’re now able to have morning workouts with all of the Junior group preparing for their championship meet. We started this practice with a short activation on land before jumping in the pool. Aerobic and sprint focused session to prepare for the racing in the afternoon.
Championship week for our Senior athletes competing at Swiss Summer Nationals and start of the last training cycle leading into Junior Nationals for our younger athletes. We were able to use both of our pools and separated the two groups with the Seniors swimming outdoors and the Juniors indoors.
Aerobic focused morning with the student-athletes of the sports class including a few short sprint sets. We’re still keeping the volume close to normal with these athletes even a week out of their championship meet.
Sprint focused morning session with an aerobic last part offering two options for our “event groups”. Due to yet another public holiday, we were only able to train in the morning today.
Speed focused Tuesday evening session including plenty of short sprints and some overspeed work as well as aerobic recovery to continue this week’s overall theme.
Low-end aerobic and mostly sprint focused morning workout for the student-athletes of the sports class. Integrating short kick-pull-swim sets between the different blocks before a “longer” swim down part.
Aerobic focused Thursday incorporating sprints in the morning with the sports class and some kicking in the evening with the full team.
Sprint focused Saturday morning workout finishing with some floating to provide the athletes with an opportunity to calm down and relax at the end of the session.
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.