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Tuesday doubles starting with an aerobic and stroke focused morning session for our student-athletes of the sports class and finishing with a tough “racing/lactate” workout for the full team in the evening.
Starting our “championship week” or what some might call “a two week taper” with an aerobic and sprint focused Monday evening workout. With new restrictions in place, we were no longer allowed to do any warm-up activity on deck prior to our sessions and thus implemented a “wide range of movements” during the first part of the workout.
Aerobic focused Saturday morning workout following a “kick-pull-swim” pattern to help the athletes to “wind down” and finish this week of training with an overall relaxed last session.
Third and last threshold focused workout for the Senior group in Solothurn for this week on this Friday evening. Today we also incorporated some “overspeed pace” work with plenty of rest to get up to race tempo.
This is an optional and shorter Thursday evening workout providing an additional recovery opportunity with relaxed aerobic work for the athletes in attendance.
Mid-week aerobic recovery focused evening workout “sandwiched” between the threshold sessions of this week.
Tuesday evening workout with more threshold work for the Senior group in Solothurn. In similar fashion to yesterday’s practice, we increased the pace through the different sets and today finished with some “overspeed” work.
Threshold focused Monday evening workout for the Senior group in Solothurn. This is the last week of our anaerobic themed cycle as we will start to increase recovery going into Swiss Short Course Nationals.
Thursday doubles with an aerobic and main stroke focused morning session for our “sports class” athletes and the regular Senior group workout in the evening including recovery and skills.
Aerobic focused Wednesday evening workout for the Senior group in Solothurn. Alternating between kicking, pulling, and swimming through the session while also providing different options for our “event groups”.