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Today’s main set was courtesy of Elisa, a swimmer who absolutely thrives on threshold sets. She provided the IM/free and I added in the specifics about the breaststroke legs to make sure we were focusing on that stroke.
Aerobic and sprint work for the student-athletes of the sports class this Tuesday morning helping them prepare for the anaerobic evening session with the team.
Five swimmers responded to Saturday’s blurb, so for this week there’s a swimmer-submitted set for each day. I gave the swimmers basic guidelines to follow, but ultimately they wrote the set. Remember, this is also breaststroke week, much to their dismay! Kevin is a huge fan of kick, so unsurprisingly his set is focused in that area.
Starting this week with another shorter Monday evening session with a mix of aerobic kicking and sprints in the pool alternating with the dryland as we were again running two groups.
Another fast Saturday! At this point I was realizing the swimmers weren’t really reading the blurbs at the top of their workouts … I’d always include a quick guide to the colour zone system and a legend of abbreviations, but I’d still get “what’s red?” or “what does dps mean?” so I got creative.
Speed focused Saturday morning including some fast 50’s kicking and fast 25’s swimming. We were again split up in two groups with each spending 1h in the pool and 1h on dryland.
Aerobic focused evening session for the Junior team including more hard butterfly work.
The goal of this Friday evening workout for our National & Junior National groups was recovery with the focus in the pool set on kicking and breath control.
This was a double whammy of bad news. First, in my daily blurb I told the swimmers we’d be doing a lot of breaststroke the following week. My national-level breaststrokers were stoked, but everyone else was upset.
Following a similar plan like we did on Tuesday morning with aerobic and stroke focused work for the student-athletes this Thursday. Again keeping the intensity low as they will have another fast evening session with the rest of the team in the evening.