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We have spent a good amount of time on Breaststroke Swimming at certain stroke rates (counts).
One of our sets we’ve done leading into this one is 10×100 (2) at 6 strokes per length (some athletes take more strokes depending on their racing stroke rate).
This is one of our Senior Groups favorite lactate tolerance / sprint workouts. The intervals in this workout are stretched a little to allow a sort of “Active Recovery” and to push to muscle fatigue by swimming the main set as a sprint set followed by a short drill set while (hopefully) the muscles are fatigued to near lactate peak.
I built this set for my triathletes (a couple of my elites in particular) that need to work on maintaining their pace in the back half of the swim during their races.
Aerobic individual medley intermediate level swim workout.
The workout that was prescribed for my elite triathletes on this day was designed to be anaerobic in nature . . .
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This is a workout we did last week. We had a mid-season meet two days after this; I was looking for a set of three 50s at 200 pace to finish each round of the main series.
The idea of the set is to accelerate to race-pace as quick as possible from no push off. Use the analogy of a lamborghini, how it goes from nought to 60 mph in a few seconds - you don't want to be like a Ford Mondeo which will take longer to reach 60 mph . . .
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Technical set including peer coaching followed by a race-pace set suitable for sprinters and anyone working on their 50m performances.
Wednesday evening workout from the second week of summer training focusing on aerobic work mixed with short sprints . . .
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The summer championship meets are moving up on us quickly and we wasted no time to get back to some lactate tolerance work on the second week of training . . .
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