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Aerobic freestyle focused Thursday morning with the sports class including some main stroke work and mostly kicking for “recovery” in the evening with the full team ahead of our meet in Basel this upcoming weekend.
Low-end aerobic and mostly sprint focused morning workout for the student-athletes of the sports class. Integrating short kick-pull-swim sets between the different blocks before a “longer” swim down part.
Starting this new week with a recovery focused morning session mostly working on “basic skills”. This Monday being a public holiday, we had access to more lane space and time in the pool compared to our current schedule.
Sunday morning threshold focused session with different options for our event groups. Although another good practice for us, we did notice some fatigue with the athletes following the already tough Saturday morning workout.
Broken 200’s for threshold like efforts during this Saturday morning session. During these sets we were working in two groups providing the “interval”/rest. We also challenged them to crush their PBs by the biggest margin possible on the final effort this morning.
Aerobic focused Thursday incorporating sprints in the morning with the sports class and some kicking in the evening with the full team.
Fast day of training starting with an aerobic and speed focused session in the morning for the student-athletes of our sports class. Both practices today have a similar taste as the ones from two weeks ago, however, our aim was to increase the intensity for this second threshold phase.
Threshold focused week of training for the Junior & Senior group starting with another short Monday evening practice. Just like the past two Mondays, the athletes were split into three groups with each of them starting their session with some stretching before jumping in the pool.
Finishing this week of training with another fast morning session including short overspeed sets as well as plenty of recovery.
Sprint focused Saturday morning workout finishing with some floating to provide the athletes with an opportunity to calm down and relax at the end of the session.