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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”.
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.