Mar 14, 2011 – Fighting Manatee Swim Club
Monday morning swim workout from the Fighting Manatee Swim Club in the Florida Keys. This is an aerobic focused session incorporating some medley to have you work on all four strokes.
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Monday morning swim workout from the Fighting Manatee Swim Club in the Florida Keys. This is an aerobic focused session incorporating some medley to have you work on all four strokes.
The biggest challenge most less experienced athletes face at the big swim meets is to be ready to race in the morning. Learn to swim fast in the morning with this race pace workout from the Florida Keys Swim Club.
Last Thursday evening was one of our recovery sessions and the athletes got to choose one of two options.
We had three different groups that evening. The basic elements of the workouts were the same but adapted to either their level or stroke.
We did this workout yesterday and it is a tough and challenging one. The warm-up was long because we had been out of training for a day and it takes a while to get your body started again.
Workout from the Fighting Manatee Masters Swim Team in the Florida Keys. This was a more challenging morning for the Manatees as there were quite a few things to remember and pay attention to during the main set.
The Main Series in this workout should be viewed in two parts. First, I set up the Main Series, which is geared toward cycling through a set of 150s and 75s freestyle. I’d like the 150s to be fast, and the 75s to be faster. Next, I set up the “Pre-Set”. In the case of today’s workout our preset was set up to mimic the main series.
Following up on a rather hard Monday afternoon practice with a kick focused Tuesday afternoon. I believe most of your kicking should be done fast, so this was the perfect day for us to work our legs.
As we approach Short Course Nationals, held in early November, the workouts for my two groups start to look quite a bit different. Most Elite squad members will have to “double peak” with Nationals and Regionals scheduled four weeks later.
This was Mhyria’s only swim for the day and as she was going to work on her upper body strength in the gym in the afternoon therefore Coach Olsen wanted the session to contain some kind of kicking.