Feb 4, 2023 – Swiss Army Team
Last Saturday at altitude in St. Moritz was a recovery day for our sprint specialist with just a short and relaxed morning swim for some active recovery to start the day.
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Last Saturday at altitude in St. Moritz was a recovery day for our sprint specialist with just a short and relaxed morning swim for some active recovery to start the day.
Aerobic focused Friday integrating some speed work for the sprint and mid-distance athletes of the group. Both of them had quite a big morning session and a shorter evening workout in the pool as both of them were also in the weight room ahead of the swim.
Thursday morning starting with our “Altitude Adaptation” test set for the sprint and mid-distance specialists. Both of those athletes had aerobic recovery focused sessions in the evening.
Overall aerobic focused workouts this Wednesday including some capacity and power work for our sprint specialist, short sprint and speed sets for the mid-distance freestyle athlete.
Aerobic and recovery focused Tuesday for the Team Armee athletes in St. Moritz including a full morning and a shorter evening session. Our sprint specialist incorporated short fast efforts during the morning workout and really kept things relaxed in the evening.
Kicking off week three at altitude after a full day off with short rest aerobic power type freestyle blocks in the morning and speed endurance work in the evening for our sprint specialist.
Our guest from Geneva went to the pool in the evening for an aerobic recovery session. The main chunk of the workout was the 3.2k nonstop swim – goal was to keep a steady pace and the stroke technically sound throughout.
Our sprint specialist had an overall aerobic focused day including some speed work in the morning and short rest “power” type sets in the afternoon. An aerobic day for our mid-distance athlete incorporating pulling and kicking.
Plenty of active recovery for the group on this Friday. Our sprint specialist was really taking it easy following his test set yesterday and our distance athlete was doing his second test set in the morning.
First lactate test set for our sprint athlete this Thursday morning before an afternoon off for recovery. After slowly building during the first week at altitude coming back from illness for our mid-distance freestyle specialist, we were starting to work on getting the aerobic base for the upcoming long course season.