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Aerobic and breaststroke focused Thursday session for the last pool workout this week. Mixing a little bit of everything to make the most out of this opportunity to “enhance” the feel for the water.
Mid-week speed and breaststroke focused workout for this second day that she was able to swim this week.
Aerobic and breaststroke focused Tuesday session for one of our athletes slowly trying to get back into the swing of things following another break due to the restrictions with the pandemic.
Championship Week! Last session at home this Monday before competing at Long Course Nationals. Short taper workout including a quick resistance and sprint main set during the middle part of the practice.
Last Saturday session and one more racing practice before the start of the competition next week. It was really about fine tuning and gaining some self-confidence.
Short recovery based Friday taper workout keeping things really simple.
Speed focused Thursday session mixing short rest resistance type work with long rest high quality race tempo swimming including some overspeed during the first part of the practice.
This is the taper version of our mid-week “Post Gym Recovery Protocol” which after remaining mostly unchanged the last few Wednesdays is now offering three options and variations of those to provide as much “freedom” to the athlete as possible.
Sprint focused Tuesday session including resistance work to “accelerate and emphasize” the feel on the fast efforts. There were no intervals on the resisted and sprint 25’s – goal was to get the equipment off, shift focus, and get into a high quality sprint.
Recovery focused Monday workout with just 10 days to go until the championship meet. The session alternated relaxed kicking and pulling with cruise freestyle and backstroke.