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Short hour long Tuesday morning practice for the student-athletes of the sports class including a few sprints and relaxed aerobic swims. This was our only “early” workout this week as we were competing at Regional Championships (focus meet of this training cycle) during the weekend.
“Championship Week” for the National & Junior National groups starting with a recovery focused Monday evening session including some speed work. We’re keeping quite a bit of the “intensity” and continue to decrease volume – swimming is now mainly very relaxed or at “race tempo”.
Last one, fast one! The National & Junior National groups finishing this week with a morning racing practice testing the waters with just one week to go to their end of cycle “taper meet”.
Recovery focused Friday evening workout for the National & Junior National groups between two hard practices.
Thursday evening session for the National & Junior National groups with more lactate production and tolerance work. This is the type of practice where I would usually provide more “freedom” to the athletes for the “warm-up” and “recovery” parts.
Thursday session focusing on 400 individual medley work.
Mid-week aerobic recovery focused workout for the National & Junior National groups. We “only” went for an hour this evening and offered options for our “event groups”.
Aerobic and sprint focused Tuesday morning session for the student-athletes of the sports class not competing at SC Nationals. We were exceptionally training long course since our regular pool was undergoing some maintenance.
Aerobic Monday evening session for the National & Junior National groups. With just two weeks left before the Regional Championships, we are starting our “taper” and will slowly bring down volume while focusing on recovery and sharpening our racing skills.
National & Junior National group finishing the week with another lactate “race workout” this Saturday morning. We also had our two athletes preparing for Short Course Nationals next week do broken swims instead of the “main set”.