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Following up the previous evening’s session with more speed endurance work during our Tuesday morning practice this time aiming to hold tempo for longer by going above race distance. We also included short sprint work at the end of each block this morning to really twitch the “fast fibers”.
Moving into the third and final week of our fall holidays home-based training camp. Still mainly working on speed endurance and following a similar weekly plan as the previous two weeks. This Monday morning we kicked things off with a recovery focused workout preparing for more fast swimming in the evening.
Finishing the third week in a row with an aerobic kicking focused morning session. This Saturday we totalled 40×100’s including somewhat faster intervals.
Different from the first week, we only had a single session this Friday. This practice somewhat “combined” the different speed endurance sets from the past days for a fast morning workout.
Thursday starting with an aerobic and sprint focused morning session for the National & Junior National groups. Today we decided to include some “fun” with the Mission Viejo Nadadores swims and the social kicking during the first two parts of the workout.
Mid-week aerobic focused evening workout for the National & Junior National squads providing three options for our “event groups”.
Tuesday morning with a kick-pull-swim based recovery session providing “active rest” before the speed endurance focused long course workout in the evening.
Week two of our home-based training camp during the fall holidays will be following a similar plan as last week and thus starting with a speed heavy day including aerobic work and fast 25’s in the morning to prepare the athletes for a speed endurance focused evening session.
The National & Junior National groups were finishing another week with an aerobic kicking focused morning session this Saturday. “Moving up” to a total of 30×100’s from last week’s initial set of 20 and doing the last one for time with fins this time around.
Friday morning recovery with our second kick-pull-swim based session this week followed by a tough speed endurance focused workout in the evening.