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Two quite different workouts tailored to the breaststroker of the group. Low intensity recovery focused aerobic session in the morning followed by race pace work in the afternoon . . .
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First afternoon workout back after the couple days off over Christmas. Short aerobic recovery and speed focused session following a “kick-pull-swim” pattern and finishing with some overspeed.
Descending freestyle aerobic threshold set this morning for my teenage aged Senior Squad. Mentally this set is ‘do-able’ – it doesn’t quite look 2.3k. Breaking it down into three sets with one less 100 each time and a bonus 200 for time.
Two Monday sessions to start the new week of training with a recovery focused workout in the morning and more racing in the afternoon coming off our last meet before Long Course Nationals over the weekend . . .
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Finishing the week of training with a kicking focused session with a 2k best average main set. This Saturday morning session was our last practice before a short break over the Christmas celebrations.
This is the last session of the week and concludes a five week training macro cycle for our athletes. Some of our kids are competing today while the others doing a test set going 7 x 200's main stroke descending 1 through 7 . . .
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Friday afternoon aerobic recovery focused session. This was our last workout of the week as we had people competing in different meets over the weekend. There was no morning session as we had them sleep in for some extra rest . . .
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A pretty general IM build with plenty of opportunity to coach skills and drills to the swimmers while staying on time cycle, and using descending work and patterns to keep them engaged in the set.
Focus of today's session during the fifth week of this training cycle was a lactate production set and some skills work for the back to breast turn at the end . . .
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Speed focused Friday with two sessions integrating a lot of short sprint sets mixed with "aerobic recovery" work. The morning practice had a slight kicking focus and less aerobic elements with fewer pool time . . .
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