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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.
Wednesday with mostly aerobic focused sessions for the group including some speed work for our sprint specialist in the morning and a big breaststroke main set for our distance athlete in the afternoon.
Our sprint guy was going through an aerobic power type of workout in the morning and a “skills” based practice in the evening following a tough weight session.
Starting week two at altitude in St. Moritz with some rest in the afternoon for our sprint and mid-distance specialists. Aerobic and speed focused morning for the two while our distance athlete had quite a big Monday with two pool and one weight session.
No rest for the wicked on this Sunday as we aim to take advantage and make the most of our time in St. Moritz training at altitude. Also during these three plus weeks, rest days were quite individual for each of the three athletes to accommodate for the different needs while we went through this important block of work towards Swiss Long Course Nationals.
Aerobic Saturday in St. Moritz integrating lots of kicking sets during the morning workout and short sprints in the afternoon session.
Friday morning was the first “full” practice for our mid-distance ace with a big aerobic freestyle focused main set incorporating negative splitting.