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Aerobic afternoon for the group starting with a little kicking during the first part before splitting into our groups with a fly, medley, or free focus. The overarching goal for the session was to work on "aerobic speed . . .
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Aerobic recovery focused Friday morning integrating turn skills throughout the session. With the turns, we also worked on underwater kicking during the first half of the workout . . .
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Saturday morning speed focused session. The main set was the shortest part of the workout with lots of overspeed using fins and paddles "supporting" the athletes to get into these "flying" swimming positions . . .
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First session of our long course training camp at the CST Tenero. These athletes all had a solid 24h of rest, so we started the afternoon with a good mix of aerobic and speed work . . .
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Two quite different aerobic focused sessions for this Friday. While our Elite athletes were enjoying to sleep in before leaving for our training camp, I was on deck with our triathletes and pentathletes for an early morning workout . . .
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First pool session of the second week starting with a shorter sprint focused workout. We started our afternoon in the gym with a dryland while a higher ranked Army official was making training visits . . .
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Full day of training mixing faster aerobic speed with some short anaerobic efforts in the morning to prepare for a race pace focused afternoon workout. Not "separating" the two groups as much as the previous days . . .
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April Fools' Day with two aerobic focused sessions for the Sharks. We integrated some resistance work in the morning and focused more on main stroke while the afternoon was a "mixed bag" kind of session . . .
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Thursday with two different sessions - more of a pace and speed focus in the morning with the athletes getting ready to leave for our "Winter Training Camp" and aerobic recovery focused work in the afternoon with everybody else . . .
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Quick Friday afternoon recovery focused workout to finish our first week of training. As in 2016, these first weeks will be a challenge with the basic Army training going on at the same time.