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Aerobic and sprint focused Thursday morning practice for the National & Junior National groups. Long rest on the fast efforts and low intensity during the aerobic parts with the IBC meet starting tomorrow or Saturday for the athletes.
Mid-week recovery focused evening workout for the National & Junior National groups including mostly cruise freestyle sets and a mix of breath control and drills.
Aerobic and recovery focused Tuesday morning for the student-athletes. Mostly relaxed freestyle and some breath control with a longer “kick-pull-drill” block in the middle. Today we had a few athletes jump in before our sports class and they got just past the first two parts of the session.
This Monday we were able to train with both groups at the same time. The emphasis was on the short sprint sets this evening with just a little relaxed aerobic swimming to prepare or recover built around it.
This was a planned weekend off for the athletes of our National & Junior National groups. However, I did provide an optional session for anybody that wanted to get an active recovery swim done.
Relaxed aerobic Friday afternoon workout for the National & Junior National groups. We started the session with a half an hour team stretch before jumping in the pool.
Thursday morning session for the student-athletes of the sports class with a mix of aerobic and speed work alternating short and long rest to prepare for the evening practice.
Mid-week aerobic and speed focused workout for the National & Junior National groups. This Wednesday evening our aim was to use the aerobic freestyle blocks as active recovery and the short fast sets of 25’s to keep everybody sharp between our two lactate practices this week.
Following our “recovery week”, we’re back to fast swimming coming off the meet in Schaffhausen. Our small group of student-athletes of the sports class kicked off their day with a mix of aerobic and speed work alternating short and long rest to prepare for the evening practice.
Monday evening starting the week with just a short hour of aerobic based post-meet recovery for the National & Junior National groups.