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Aerobic focused Monday evening workout for the National & Junior National groups. This week we will continue our recovery efforts with the summer championships quickly approaching while “intensity” will increase again with some lactate work and the three days of racing at our Regional meet.
Double sessions this Saturday to close out another week for the National & Junior National squads. Both workouts today focused on recovery & skills and provided options for our “event groups”.
Aerobic “SYOP” Friday evening workout for the National & Junior National groups at the long course outdoor pool in Wangen. Trying to keep the athletes engaged with some short axis stroke “drills” mixed into the longer freestyle swims while also working on breath control and stroke count work during each block.
Coming off a mid-week rest day without any swimming, we spent our Thursday working on sprints and skills like we did on Tuesday.
Sprint focused day of training for the National & Junior National groups. The morning workout for the student-athletes of the sports class included low-end aerobic elements.
Aerobic and recovery focused Monday evening workout for the National & Junior National groups. This will be another active recovery week for the team aiming to improve on skills by purposely investing more time than we would during the tough work weeks.
Individual and optional Saturday workout for all of the National & Junior National group athletes not attending the meet in Suhr today. A simple about hour long session mimicking in some ways what a race warm-up might include during this phase of our training cycle including kicking, drilling, and some “speed work”.
Aerobic “SYOP” long course pre-meet Friday afternoon session for the National & Junior National groups. Mixing longer aerobic swim with shorter tempo sets to aid with recovery and keeping those racing tomorrow sharp
We had almost all of our athletes at practice this Thursday morning with a public holiday that provided most of them with a day off from school. Aerobic and sprint focused session to prepare for the fast workout in the evening.
Individual and shorter aerobic and speed focused Wednesday afternoon workout for the athletes of the National & Junior Nationals group. There was a mandatory event during our regular training hours and thus we provided the athletes with a plan to get a quick swim after school.