Wednesday afternoon is our first main session of the week and at this time of the season much of it is lactate type work. In this workout we also incorporated some resistance training by using t-shirts during the main sets . . .
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what is mean strong aerobic?
Means I don’t want the athletes to fiddle around and just making the intervals but go for it and swim strong as long as they stay in or close to their aerobic zone – rather have them et more rest than “bag” the set.
What is Energy System strong aerobic?
This is an interesting question for which I don’t have a good answer unless we know which energy system we base our training or terms off. I tend not to worry too much about this with my athletes – the more experienced ones, usually hit their “energy zones” just right for their workouts (or even go too hard); with the younger athletes you can always trick them into working harder or easier. If we refer to the USA Swimming Energy Zones then it would probably be an Aerobic/Anaerobic Mix 2 (EN2 to EN3) or for the Swiss athletes a little… Read more »