My distance and Open Water guys actually like this set – not sure why! Warm-up is a little longer, with a little more intensity to get them well warmed up.
Archives: Workouts
Aug 3, 2016 – Podium Swimming – Open Water Speed and Race Pace Efforts
The goal of this workout is for our Open Water swimmers to simulate a start of race effort, followed by getting into their race pace stroke rate and effort . . .
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Aug 1, 2016 – Podium Swimming – OWS Regression Rate Test
My Open Water athlete had a "B" race in Costa Rica on the horizon. We wanted to gauge his fitness and speed endurance . . .
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Nov 11, 2015 – Limmat Sharks Zurich
Wednesday afternoon workout with a lot of fast elements and some overspeed work splitting the team in three groups going through the main part of the session depending on the athletes events and their taper plan . . .
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Podium Swimming – Speed Set for Distance and Open Water Group
Everyone needs speed-work for their swim. Even distance and open water swimmers.
Nov 10, 2015 – Limmat Sharks Zurich
Coming off a successful last meet preparing for Short Course Championships, most of the team didn't swim on Monday as we were traveling. Thus we did go a little longer one more time the next day in the morning . . .
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Jun 26, 2016 – Podium Swimming – High Aerobic / Endurance
For my distance and open water swimmers, a solid long endurance set. In all the sets below, the send-offs are written with a 1:15 base 100 time (LCM) in mind.
Jul 20, 2016 – Plantation Swim Team
This was our mid-week afternoon recovery practice allowing everyone to stretch out during the swim.
Jun 25, 2016 – Podium Swimming – Open Water Set
With my open water swimmers, we do get one or two Open Water sessions (OWS) in a week . . .
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