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Speed focused Friday evening session for the team in Vevey. This was the type of workout that doesn’t need a lot of explaining.
This was our last workout with a kick focused main set leading up to Swiss Nationals. We will continue to work the legs but need to give those “big” muscles some more rest.
We’ve increased the amount of resistance training this year with our post-graduate group. A few of our younger athletes are participating in these resistance training workouts as well.
This is an active rest backstroke workout. We snuck in some quality, technical Breast Drills and Fly Swims to get into the workout – and finished with some fast underwater 25s.
Coming off our Christmas training camp, we have been lacking mostly speed. I kind of expected this as December to February is usually a more training focused time for us.
Monday evening workout following an hour of a dryland circuit training. We worked in two groups and still kept the aerobic elements but added intensity.
Wednesday evening has been our stroke specific day of the week in this preparation cycle. The aerobic-recovery remains an important part of this workout but it did include some short high intensity or fast pace swims depending on the group.
Follow up on our Monday workout – another afternoon focused on aerobic-recovery getting a big part of the aerobic work done through kicking and drills. We also kept working on our speed with some short sprints and a couple fast 25’s.
This was Monday evening four weeks out of our National Championships. We were about to enter our last two weeks of high intensity training but of course recovery starts to play a more important role at this time.
I am a firm believer morning swims are everything in swim meets and our swimmers know that the minute the jump in the water.