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Morning practices at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center are combined masters, senior and advanced age group athletes. The main set works the aerobic/anaerobic energy systems and mixes in some 0 to 60 MPH speed work.
This workout is a great way to train back-half speed with great stroke and no scrambling. I believe there’s a big difference in “sprinting” a 100 – to “see what you can do” and splitting a 100 Negative by 1.0-1.5 seconds.
This workout is meant for the athlete who has been doing a good job with their kicking and would like to mix it up a bit. You’ll get some good kicking in without getting into a 1200-1500 meter kicking set.
This morning was more of an aerobic technique with mixed pulling and some kicking drills. However, tonight we emphasized work on threshold.
Those are two workouts from Monday following a two day break over the weekend for one part of the team and a two day meet for the other part of the team.
This is the third workout of the week and also the third in our “Wednesday afternoon series” working in groups on stroke specific elements.
Today, we kept the same theme from the previous evening session working on short pace and aerobic recovery coming off a three day meet this past weekend.
Giving this workout is a great way to tax your group to the fullest without swimming a ton of long distance freestyle.
This Monday afternoon session was our first practice of the week. We usually spend this workout “warming up” for the week.
This morning, our practice was designed for P200. It was expected from all our student athletes to come ready to go FAST in the morning.