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This Wednesday, I had to go to the pool a bit earlier than usual and had also less time at my disposal. Still got a good workout in and was trying to slowly integrate more “regular sets” into my routine.
This Monday started my last week with the team in Biel already and with the good progress working together over the last weeks, we combined elements from the previous training weeks with the longer uninterrupted swimming and bigger kicking focused main sets.
Saturday morning “racing” practice for the Beluga kids in Biel. They will soon have their first competition of the season and today we really wanted to hone in on starts and underwaters with a couple high quality sprints.
Finishing this week of training with a low-end aerobic morning workout integrating kicking, pulling, and some breath control.
Onto week two and slowly starting to have a better feel for the water again. Not aiming to push volume or do any “crazy” things, however, trying to integrate a couple faster efforts with the underwater kicking sprints towards the end.
Aerobic and speed focused Friday for the team in Biel. The morning session was pretty relaxed and low intensity setting up for the evening workout.
Aerobic focused Thursday for the team in Biel mimicking their Tuesday practices, however, including a bit more sprint work and again going for a bigger kicking main set in the evening.
Tuesday evening for the Beluga kids in Biel starting to put the “puzzle pieces” of the last week together and slowly adding a bit more “volume”.
Second swim of my “back to the pool” campaign continuing to take things slow and keep intensity mostly down. Keeping fins on for now as they allow me to “relax” and focus on good habits until my feel and overall conditioning improve.
Mid-week aerobic and sprint focused morning practice for the team in Biel. Mixing drill and breath control work with short sprints through the first part.