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Monday morning workout from the Fighting Manatee Masters Swim Team in the Florida Keys. This is an all levels general fitness practice with a focus on aerobic freestyle and strokes including some kicking and breath control work.
This was the first day back following our camp in Luxembourg. The goal of the two workouts was to give the team an active recovery day after two weeks of hard training and going back to their regular schedule with early morning practice, school or work and an evening session.
The following is an example of what I would consider a “Lactate Tolerance” practice. We spent about 5 weeks performing a set like this one, about once per week – during April and May this season.
Working on their fitness is one of the main goal for the members of the Fighting Manatee Masters Swim Team in the Florida Keys.
Technique and speed focus morning followed by a mainly freestyle pacing heavy afternoon from the Lancy Natation Elite group. The early workout was a shorter about 45 minutes session to “warm-up” and prepare for the later “main event” of the day.
Our last session on this training trip at the National Training Center d’Coque in Luxembourg. This morning we were really just trying to get a loosen swim in before the long bus ride back home.
Some more needed recovery after the hard pace workout the previous day. Mixed some longer kicking in the morning and shorts sprints in the afternoon to break the old habit of just swimming back and forth.
During morning workout, we split the squad into three different groups working on more event specific elements including some fast swimming for everyone.
Jumped in the pool for a recovery session while visiting a friend in Switzerland.
This is a test set practice focusing on stroke count and pacing from the Lancy Natation Elite group.