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Closing out this week with a tough threshold focused Saturday morning session. Taking a little bit of a different approach preparing for the two main sets going through our “Point 0” and an activation part. Overall good efforts from the team today.
Friday evening with an aerobic and speed focused session for the National & Junior National groups providing “event and stroke based” options for a little more specific work following a first common part.
This week’s Thursday morning practice for the student-athletes of the sports class resembles the Tuesday session with more aerobic and short speed sets while also including some main stroke work.
After yesterday’s session, arms were sore. I wanted to make sure that the swimmers were relying more on their kick than their pull, so I wrote a workout that primed the legs before getting into the nuts and bolts of butterfly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.