Swimming Set of the Week - May 3, 2013
How's your sense of pace at 100s and 200s? This week's set asks swimmers to do some descend work and negative-split work...and sometimes both.
How's your sense of pace at 100s and 200s? This week's set asks swimmers to do some descend work and negative-split work...and sometimes both.
Teaching swimmers how to work isn't just for kids... masters need a little help too.
Really packed lanes mean's you just can't swim that far... so you'll need to demand performance at a more consistent level.
Start the set with a pace you feel confident you can hold for a long time. Be careful not to be too aggressive at the beginning, it just may creep up on you.
Still procrastinating...er...TRAINING for your USMS One-Hour Swim? Here's a set that will help you train at your aerobic threshold.
Following the theme of controlled descends this week, Barbara's team applied the concept to some 200s.
Learning pace is more than guessing, it's about feeling how the water moves passed your body at specific speeds. Here's a practice that inspires to teach those feelings.
This set requires focus and attention to pacing to achieve the goal of descending your times throughout the set.
A pace set this week...but also a speed set if you do it with heart.
Are you a swimmer who operates like a vacuum cleaner, with one speed and a very simple ON/OFF switch? Or are you a swimmer who operates more like a high-tech piece of stereo equipment?
Mixing tether work into a practice where everyone is on the same sendoff. Good for team building.
Pace set this week...which should turn into a speed set at the end if you swim it correctly.
We are a group of swimmers who swim really fast, and like to help others learn how to reach their competitive potential in the area of professional swimming.