Apr 5, 2021 – SRSO – Ivo Staub
Championship Week! Last session at home this Monday before competing at Long Course Nationals. Short taper workout including a quick resistance and sprint main set during the middle part of the practice.
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Championship Week! Last session at home this Monday before competing at Long Course Nationals. Short taper workout including a quick resistance and sprint main set during the middle part of the practice.
Last Saturday session and one more racing practice before the start of the competition next week. It was really about fine tuning and gaining some self-confidence.
Short recovery based Friday taper workout keeping things really simple.
Speed focused Thursday session mixing short rest resistance type work with long rest high quality race tempo swimming including some overspeed during the first part of the practice.
This is the taper version of our mid-week “Post Gym Recovery Protocol” which after remaining mostly unchanged the last few Wednesdays is now offering three options and variations of those to provide as much “freedom” to the athlete as possible.
Sprint focused Tuesday session including resistance work to “accelerate and emphasize” the feel on the fast efforts. There were no intervals on the resisted and sprint 25’s – goal was to get the equipment off, shift focus, and get into a high quality sprint.
Recovery focused Monday workout with just 10 days to go until the championship meet. The session alternated relaxed kicking and pulling with cruise freestyle and backstroke.
Fast Saturday morning workout simulating some of the conditions that we will face at Long Course Nationals.
Resistance and sprint focused Friday workout including some aerobic elements for active recovery. Two repeats only on the sets of resistance work on short and sprint work on long rest.
Aerobic recovery focused Thursday taper workout including short speed sets. Really basic practice only incorporating a little more kicking to keep the legs active even during this phase of the preparation.