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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.
This Tuesday evening session was our first practice back home following our training camp. Aerobic freestyle mixed with some fast kicking.
These are two workouts of a recovery day leading up to Long Course Nationals. The goal of the day for our athletes was to feel better when they got out of the pool.
This was Day 6 of our Training Trip to Islamorada. On Day 2, our group of High School boys did a long course set holding a strong pace.
We still do quite a lot of kicking in Vevey. As they get better, we start to kick a little less in distance overall but fast more often.
Tuesday evening aerobic recovery workout mixed with short sprints. This session was done in preparation for Swiss Long Course Nationals in March.
Our athletes had to go through a pretty though 1.5h long dryland circuit before this workout. There wasn't really a need for a warm-up that afternoon, everybody was ready to go after the dryland . . .
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