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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.
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.
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”.
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.
Finishing the third week in a row with an aerobic kicking focused morning session. This Saturday we totalled 40×100’s including somewhat faster intervals.
Different from the first week, we only had a single session this Friday. This practice somewhat “combined” the different speed endurance sets from the past days for a fast morning workout.
Thursday starting with an aerobic and sprint focused morning session for the National & Junior National groups. Today we decided to include some “fun” with the Mission Viejo Nadadores swims and the social kicking during the first two parts of the workout.
Mid-week aerobic focused evening workout for the National & Junior National squads providing three options for our “event groups”.
I always like doing Pace and Power together. Post Activation Potentiation is the goal of this set or that Taper feeling coming off resistance! Coming off of the chute the swimmers should feel fresh or a little pop on the first couple repetitions after resistance.
Tuesday morning with a kick-pull-swim based recovery session providing “active rest” before the speed endurance focused long course workout in the evening.