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Swimming Set of the Week - May 29, 2009

Posted by Barbara Hummel on May 29, 2009 02:35PM (3,345 views)

 This week's Set of the Week is short and sweet... the Scrimmage Set.

This is a great set for team building and for pulling everyone together at the end of practice, and for finishing FAST.   By putting everyone in fins, and swimming for only 25 yards/meters, you level the playing field, and it's often eye-opening to see which swimmers will start edging to the front of the pack.

4 (or 6) X 25 freestyle with fins on a minimum sendoff of :45
Swimmers must swim two abreast in each lane, and everyone starts at the same time from in the water.   If you have a lot of swimmers, and need to create two or more heats, swimmers in all heats should swim two abreast and each heat should leave 10 seconds after the heat in front of them.   Try to place swimmers of similar speed right next to each other or close enough to see each other.  Each 25 is a race!   If you notice that a swimmer in an outside lane is keeping up with the leaders, take time to "rearrange" the swimmers so that the fastest swimmers are near each other.  

Our Masters team LOVES this set.   It makes them go faster than they thought they could go, and they're always laughing when we finish.  From on deck, it's a fun set to watch... pure racing.

 


Tags fins, freestyle, racing


Responses

Responded May 29, 2009 08:53PM

You see Barbara..in the end it is MAY 29 :).

Just a question...Why do you recommend fins so much in your workouts?
Responded Jun 03, 2009 06:01AM

This sounds like a lot of fun, thanks Barbara!
Responded Jun 03, 2009 10:28AM

Does the first heat wait the second heat at pool's end or does it leave place ? Because if there are 5 heats (only one line reserved), it makes a lot of fins !
And from where does the second race start ? From the end reached in the first race, or does everybody swim back to where he started ?
Responded Jun 03, 2009 11:06AM

Wow, Camy. That's a big team or a narrow pool. The swimmers start two abreast in each lane, so if you have a 6-lane pool, 12 swimmers start all at once. Ten seconds later, the next heat of 12 swimmers pushes off. Ten seconds later, another heat pushes off. All heats wait at the other end of the pool until ALL heats are finished. Then the first heat goes again. Adjust the sendoff to allow for all heats to finish the length before the first heat goes again.


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