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I never approach a workout with a set total in mind. But since one of our goals for this training trip was to get some longer swims done, we did want to try to go 6000 meters or more in the mornings.
Over the coming days you’ll notice that we did the same warm-up for every workout. I wanted to try this idea with my athletes after reading Coach Dave Salo’s book and getting some further input from Swiss Olympian Dominik Meichtry training at USC.
This is the first practice from our Christmas training trip at the National Training Center d’Coque in Luxembourg. After spending 8h traveling, the goal of this session was to loosen everybody up and prepare them for the work to come during this training camp.
In 2001, I coached a group that had 90 minutes of pool time each day. I wanted more! In an attempt to get a “full” workout in, I decided to combine my warmup and main series a few times per week. This workout is an example of what I started in 2001, and have continued to do through this year.
Aerobic focused Wednesday morning workout with a twist of speed work from the Lancy Natation Elite group.
We train for great 100/200 flys in a variety of ways. This workout provided the athletes with an opportunity to swim a significant amount of fly, one 50 at a time – with intervals that challenge and train the athlete’s fitness level.
Tuesday workouts from the Lancy Natation Elite group. Both sessions included quality low-end aerobic work mixed with short speed and pace sets.
Our age groupers have gone through quite a big aerobic base work phase the past weeks – it’s now time to start to give them speed.
This Saturday morning workout continued the theme of the Thursday evening practice while also adding some short “lactate” swims to the mix.
This Thursday evening workout focused on holding pace or close to race speeds, teaching your body to handle stress. With the work we had already done this week, the workout ended up being harder on the athletes than I thought.