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Practices for the National & Junior National groups looking quite similar every day during this first phase of our training at the start of the new season. Thursday evening session also mixing aerobic & speed work following the dryland.
Aerobic focused morning workout for the Junior team with the main goal of this session being the three sets of 10×100’s fly. As always the stroke focus can easily be adapted for back or breast specialists.
Wednesday evening session for the National & Junior National groups continuing the mix of aerobic & speed work following our dryland. Today we took our speed work to the blocks including race dives and also incorporated some overspeed during the last set.
Aerobic and speed focused Tuesday evening workout for the National & Junior National groups to start this new week of training. Dryland continues to be an integral part of the practices this week.
Recovery focused Friday afternoon practice for the National & Junior National groups offering two different options. Group 1 was for the sprint and stroke specialist while Group 2 was for our distance athletes.
This is a hard and intensive morning workout from the Junior team that pays particular attention to the butterfly stroke and works on improving speed endurance – it can easily be adapted for backstroke or breaststroke specialists.
Continuing the aerobic work this Thursday evening with the National & Junior National groups. You will notice that the sprint parts during these sessions are like “modules” that we keep reusing throughout this week.
Aerobic freestyle focused afternoon workout from the Junior team. It’s part of a set of training sessions that were held during a 15-day preparation phase before a competition.
Wednesday evening session for the National & Junior National groups with more aerobic work incorporating short sprints.
Official first practice for the National & Junior National groups of the season with mostly aerobic work incorporating some short sprints.