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Practice this morning was designed with a couple of goals in mind – hold technique to the highest standard and also experience some difficulty while adjusting to long course swimming. I remember doing this set way back when I swam for the legendary Coach Jack Nelson at the Fort Lauderdale Swim Team.
This is a quick workout that we did during day 2 of our Spring Training program. The workout included a timed CrossFit exercise that we did right before a short workout in the pool.
I hang these up at the pool to remind the kids about the basics of every stroke. It's good for new swimmers who are just learning these skills and for the more elite level swimmers who could just use the reminder every now and then . . .
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This workout is taken from the first day of our Spring Training. The workout consists of a 15 minute cardio warm-up in the gym, 45 minutes of lifting and then an hour in the pool.
When I first started coaching, a lecturer wrote the following main set down as something that was done each week by Kieran Perkins (World Record Holder for 1500m). 15X 100 on 1:30, hold 30 strokes, hold 40 stroke rate, pace 59 seconds . . .
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Tuesday afternoon was a “progression” of the workout the team did on Monday evening. A lot of familiar things in this session – something we did use quite often in this preparation cycle to allow for more “stability” and to “track” progress more easily.
This is typical Kick-Drill-Swim Stroke Endurance workout for our top HS-aged athletes. The set was pretty tough, and done well across the board.
For all the age group coaches out there I decided to post a seasons worth of workouts from a group I coached at the Y back in 2005-2006. The season consisted of 25 weeks and I was working with mostly beginners who were new to the sport of swimming . . .
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For all the age group coaches out there I decided to post a seasons worth of workouts from a group I coached at the Y back in 2005-2006. The season consisted of 25 weeks and I was working with mostly beginners who were new to the sport of swimming . . .
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Monday evening workout and start of another week of training for the team in Vevey. We were looking at the last couple of hard days in the pool as we prepared for our final meet on the weekend before Long Course Nationals two weeks later.