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Continuing our preparation for the upcoming meet this weekend with a lactate production and tolerance workout giving the athletes an opportunity to race . . .
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First session of the new year for the group with some low-end aerobic kicking focused work integrating drills through the first warm-up part. Exciting start with lots of people back that missed the first week of "Christmas Training . . .
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This is a workout we did last week. We are up to 2500-3000m per hour of aerobic work and gradually increasing the volume of higher intensity work now and trying to hold our skills under pressure.
Friday morning pre-travel/pre-meet session with some skills and speed work after a short aerobic recovery focused warm-up block. No intervals on the skills and speed parts – target “full recovery” between every repeat.
Tuesday USRPT session with two rounds of “short distance/high repetitions” race pace focused work.
Saturday aerobic medley focused session with some faster paced aerobic kicking using fins following a longer warm-up part. This was the last session of the year for us - sending everybody into a quick two day break over New Year's Eve . . .
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Thursday doubles with two pace focused sessions integrating short speed work. Kind of "building" the speed in the morning and "applying" in the afternoon - like one big practice for the day . . .
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Friday afternoon speed focused session with lots of short sprints mixed with aerobic blocks for recovery as well as some overspeed work. With only our third session back after the short break, speed didn't come easy in the beginning . . .
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Aerobic medley and breaststroke focused morning workout mixed with some freestyle pulling. This session was again "tailored" to the breaststroker of the group as the others joined the NTC crew for a loosen swim and racing skills . . .
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Thursday afternoon "general aerobic" session, slowly building back up after the break over Christmas as we're moving into a more of "high volume, low intensity" phase for the next few weeks of training . . .
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