Feb 12, 2022 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Saturday morning practice for the National & Junior National groups with their third and last “anaerobic power” session for this week mixing kicking and swimming.
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Saturday morning practice for the National & Junior National groups with their third and last “anaerobic power” session for this week mixing kicking and swimming.
Aerobic and recovery focused Friday for the National & Junior National groups. The morning practice was covering “the basics” and included a little bit “of everything”.
Thursday evening with our second “anaerobic power” practice this week mixing again short and long rest race pace and best average sets for the National & Junior National groups.
Mid-week aerobic focused day of training for the National & Junior National groups with the morning session aiming mostly at recovery including plenty of kicking, drilling, and breath control work following a tough session the previous night.
“Anaerobic Power” for this Tuesday evening practice mixing short and long rest race pace and best average sets for the National & Junior National groups.
Already school holidays again and we have two “camp weeks” with more opportunities for additional morning sessions ahead of us. Starting this first week with a recovery focused Monday morning as the Junior National group athletes were coming off a meet in Oerlikon.
Saturday morning providing another opportunity to race for our National team athletes. The events were the same as last evening with the aim to simulate a prelims/finals meet in our training cycle towards Long Course Nationals.
I try to dedicate one day a week to a bit more kick focus. I try to mix this up with our stroke work from time to time and keep it fresh for the athletes especially since yesterday was an aerobic freestyle day.
Breaking with our “FriYAY formula” this week as the younger athletes of the group will be competing at the Hallenjugendtag in Oerlikon over the weekend and we will have some racing at home with the older athletes.
Overall recovery focused Thursday starting with a relaxed morning session for the student-athletes of the sports class including mostly low-end aerobic freestyle and breath control work.