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Starting this Tuesday with an aerobic recovery session in the morning following a tough day in the pool for the sprint specialist of the group. Our distance athlete was going through some backstroke race pace during his morning swim.
Aerobic Monday for the sprint specialist of the group alternating short rest capacity and sprint sets in the morning while incorporating power type work in the evening.
First day of training at the Tenerife Top Training for the Team Armee athletes starting with a pretty relaxed shake-out swim in the morning following our travel day.
Thursday afternoon with more active recovery including mostly relaxed aerobic swimming. We didn’t have too much time at the pool today and made it somewhat a “nonstop” session.
Our sprint specialist had an hour of active recovery including some kicking and breath control work while the distance athlete had an aerobic freestyle and medley based session.
About an hour of aerobic recovery for our sprint specialist and a bit of a longer session for our distance athlete focusing on backstroke including sprints.
Last full day of training at altitude for the Team Armee athletes before a few days back at BASPO in Magglingen for “graduation” and travel to the next camp under the sun in Tenerife.
Finishing week #3 at altitude in St. Moritz with an aerobic focused Sunday for the group. Our sprint specialist’s morning session included capacity and power type sets while the afternoon incorporated more kicking.
Last Saturday at altitude in St. Moritz was a recovery day for our sprint specialist with just a short and relaxed morning swim for some active recovery to start the day.
Aerobic focused Friday integrating some speed work for the sprint and mid-distance athletes of the group. Both of them had quite a big morning session and a shorter evening workout in the pool as both of them were also in the weight room ahead of the swim.