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An overall aerobic and speed focused Monday for the team in Biel. The morning session included shorter sprints and short axis stroke work while in the evening, we incorporated dive efforts and fins for the fast sets.
My last session with the Beluga kids in Biel this Saturday morning continuing our meet preparation work with a couple quality sprints as well as some fun with a relay at the end.
The team in Biel was finishing this week with a speed focused Saturday morning session. This was my official “last” workout with the squad as I was handing over the reigns to their new Head Coach the following Monday.
Aerobic and mostly relaxed Friday for the team in Biel with active recovery in mind as well as high quality “work & effort” for the skills parts in the evening.
Thursday with two rather big workouts for the team in Biel. During the morning session, we alternated some more “technical” blocks integrating short axis stroke work with short kick-pull-sprint blocks.
Tuesday evening session for the Beluga kids in Biel including two distinctive parts starting with a technique and “feel” block to set up for the short axis block and breaking things up with some longer kicking.
Aerobic focused Wednesday morning for the team in Biel integrating lots of drills and kicking as well as some pulling through the first three parts of the workout.
This Tuesday included a pretty relaxed morning and a rather intense evening workout for the team in Biel.
This Monday started my last week with the team in Biel already and with the good progress working together over the last weeks, we combined elements from the previous training weeks with the longer uninterrupted swimming and bigger kicking focused main sets.
Saturday morning “racing” practice for the Beluga kids in Biel. They will soon have their first competition of the season and today we really wanted to hone in on starts and underwaters with a couple high quality sprints.