Oct 28, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Thursday evening practice starting our “two day mini-taper” with an aerobic recovery focused session for the National & Junior National groups leading into this weekend’s meet.
Archives: Workouts
Oct 27, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Wednesday evening workout for the National & Junior National groups including two small lactate production sets before we’ll get more “specific race training” at the meet this upcoming weekend.
Oct 26, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
The student-athletes of the sports class starting their Tuesday with an aerobic and stroke focused morning session with mostly low intensity as we aim to include recovery between our two hard days this week.
Oct 25, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
First day following our intensive three week long block of training during the fall holidays. We are now entering our “competition phase” of the cycle towards Short Course Nationals and will start to include more lactate production and tolerance work. This Monday evening practice was our first attempt and provided small adaptations for the sprinters.
Oct 23, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Finishing this three week home-based training camp for the National & Junior National groups with some active recovery in mind going through an aerobic focused Saturday morning session including some longer swims and mixing things up with equipment.
Oct 22, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Friday evening provided the third speed endurance workout of the week for the National & Junior National groups.
Oct 21, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
This week we provided everybody with an extra morning off and ran the same practice on Thursday and Friday for half of the team on both days. The session followed a “kick-pull-swim” pattern for some active recovery.
Oct 20, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Hump day relay fun for the National & Junior National squads as we were using a different method for this Wednesday’s evening speed endurance sets.
Oct 19, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Following up the previous evening’s session with more speed endurance work during our Tuesday morning practice this time aiming to hold tempo for longer by going above race distance. We also included short sprint work at the end of each block this morning to really twitch the “fast fibers”.
Oct 18, 2021 – Swim Regio Solothurn
Moving into the third and final week of our fall holidays home-based training camp. Still mainly working on speed endurance and following a similar weekly plan as the previous two weeks. This Monday morning we kicked things off with a recovery focused workout preparing for more fast swimming in the evening.