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We went back to work after a three day meet today. We don’t have a lot of time left in the season, and my Senior training group needs to hit it pretty hard for the next two weeks.
Every Friday, the athletes swim a set called “Animal Kick”. It is 10×100’s HARD KICK. At the end of the set, I either want to know the athletes approximate average or their total time.
These are the workouts from day two of our training camp in Luxembourg. Some good “old fashioned” aerobic freestyle mixed with short speed work. They’ll also get to use quite a bit of fins and paddles to make the adaption to training long course easier.
The following is a chart I have developed for different broken swims. They go from the 50 to the 1650. There are many different ways to do broken swims. Find out which one your swimmers are most comfortable with.
This AM workout allowed the swimmers to move around and get a lot of different types of work in. It also included some dryland work.
What are the important things to know when coaching a new group of 8-11 year olds”? Here are a few things I’d consider for a new training group, at this age.
It has become apparent to me that my athletes will not continue their improvement without beginning to do their share of “Fartlek” training. I’ve started to put “Fartlek” work into more of our workouts, and on Wednesday mornings, I’ve added it to our normal kicking and pulling routine.
This is the continuation of our preparation for Long Course Nationals. These two workouts are from the beginning of the week as we move into a more lactate oriented training phase.
As last year, we went to the National Training Center in Luxembourg for our “Christmas Holiday” training camp.
This was our second workout following our training camp in Luxembourg. I can tell that the athletes are in a much better shape than before the trip but they are also tired because we didn’t have a rest day during the camp.