Sep 22, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Mid-week aerobic and speed focused evening workout for the National & Junior National groups. After a first common part, we split up into our “event groups” for a little more specific work.
Archives: Workouts
Oct 6, 2020 – Sault Surge Aquatic Team
Since we did breaststroke all last week, this week we focused on butterfly. I always try to tackle group-wide issues within my practice plan, so for this workout I wanted the swimmers to focus on small kicks (low amplitude) and a more neutral arm recovery.
Sep 21, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
The student-athletes of the sports class starting their Tuesday with an aerobic focused morning workout including some short speed sets to prepare for the anaerobic threshold practice with the rest of the team in the evening.
Sep 20, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Post-meet recovery this Monday evening for the National & Junior National groups with mostly relaxed aerobic work to kick off this new week of training and “adjusting” to long course again.
Oct 3, 2020 – Sault Surge Aquatic Team
The final day of breaststroke week was also a Saturday, which meant one hour of fast swimming. Our final set creator for the week was Haley, who opted to have the group do 25m walkbacks after a 20-minute warm-up, then some relays.
Sep 18, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Kicking off short course season competing at the Fricktal-Cup this Saturday afternoon. Providing an activation to get everybody “sweaty” before jumping in the pool for the warm-up. Overall a good meet for our athletes after a few more weeks of training.
Oct 2, 2020 – Sault Surge Aquatic Team
Today’s set was submitted by Lauren, a super-motivated swimmer who loves to push herself to improve. Her set is simultaneously simple and challenging, and I only had to make one change: making round 2 breaststroke.
Sep 17, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Pre-meet recovery focused Friday evening workout for the National & Junior National groups. We only spent an hour in the pool to get everybody home early, providing enough time to replenish and some “extra” sleep ahead of the morning travel.
Oct 1, 2020 – Sault Surge Aquatic Team
Today’s set was provided by Logan, one of many National-level breaststrokers I had the pleasure of working with at SSAT! Logan loves sprinting, and her breaststroke is very kick-driven, so her set reflects that.
Sep 16, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Thursday morning session for the student-athletes of the sports class mixing some low-end aerobic work and sprints to prepare them for the second anaerobic evening session of this week.