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Early morning workout to conclude our training camp in Bulgaria. Longer relaxed aerobic and sprint focused session. “Long day” of travel back home to Sweden after a quick lunch was on schedule for the rest of the day.
We took the morning off to give our athletes some extra sleep and for some additional recovery. In the afternoon we focused on racing skills with two “timed blocks” working on starts and turns.
Mid-week threshold style afternoon workout for the Sharks. Not too much intensity and rather “relaxed” intervals to allow the athletes to work on their main strokes and swim at the right tempos.
Aerobic recovery focused Wednesday morning workout for BS Elite. We kept the team together for most of the session and only split into groups for the last part. As every week, they were off in the afternoon.
Last full day of training of this 10-day camp at the AquaLife facilities in Bulgaria. Starting this week with two aerobic and sprint focused workouts including a lot of kicking on this Monday.
Shorter aerobic recovery focused Tuesday morning followed by a more intense and faster paced afternoon session with a mix of aerobic and speed work offering different options for our “event groups”.
Aerobic focused Tuesday with the morning including some sprints and the afternoon a little speed work as well as quite some kicking. We continue the neg.-splits on the aerobic parts and integrate more main stroke through the workout.
Starting this new week with a shorter aerobic recovery focused Monday morning workout. The afternoon included more speed work again as we were training on the yards side of the pool.
Technique and recovery on this Sunday in Bulgaria. Both pool sessions were only about an hour long followed by another hour of dryland working on mobility. In the morning we focused on long axis and the afternoon on short axis strokes.
Speed focused Saturday morning workout to close out this week of training. Everybody followed the same “idea and structure”, however, the execution was adapted to fit their events.