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We finished our Horizon League Championships this week and we look to keep the athletes in shape for the spring. This is another day of aerobic fitness for the team with a bigger underwater focus.
We finished our Horizon League Championships this week and we look to keep the athletes in shape for the spring. So many of these workouts will be a lot of HR and Kicking as we start to build up our athletes for summer training.
Monday evening practice for the National & Junior National group with an aerobic and sprint focus as we go through our last week of this extended first training cycle to include a long course meet in Uster where we’ll try to get cuts for the national championship meets early in the season.
Saturday morning practice taking our National & Junior National athletes through a “meet preparation” including aerobic and sprint work by incorporating dive efforts to get back into racing mode.
Friday evening practice for the National & Junior National group continues the aerobic and sprint focus getting ready for more racing over the weekend.
Thursday evening and the full team is back together for an aerobic and sprint focused evening session to continue the recovery and also keep the momentum from the Regional Championships as our swimming continues to be either at race tempo or very relaxed.
This Wednesday evening workout was for the Junior athletes racing at their Team Championships on Sunday. Everybody else had another day off. We just spent a short hour in the pool doing some relaxed aerobic work.
Last workout for the month of November and also our last session before competing at the Regional Championships. Really keeping things relaxed this evening and focusing on recovery including some breath control and floating.
Thursday evening session for the National & Junior National groups including “meet prep” work incorporating a couple fast swims from a dive as well as some relay takeovers while keeping the overall intensity of the practice low with plenty of recovery between the fast efforts.
Mid-week aerobic recovery focused evening session for the National & Junior National squad. This was a short hour “taper practice” offering different options for our “event groups”.