Swimming Set of the Week - May 5, 2012
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a little speedwork this week.
A very short clip of video showing what your swimmers should look like when sprinting butterfly with fins. We've posted Fast Fin Fly before, but this is reinforcement... plus just some really cool body positions in this.
Getting your swimmers to REALLY perform in practice sometimes requires a combination of surprise and excitement.
While taking some pictures of the swimmers this morning, I found the following comparison pretty interesting.
Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Roland Schoeman shares the key focus points that he uses to develop his awesome freestyle technique.
Here's a short but intense set designed to help you get maximum benefit from your fins.
Sure, fins can be used for all strokes, but today, let's just focus on using them for two types of freestyle.
Just pure pain on this one... and it's now 6 hours later and I'm still sore.
Got championships? This week's set can help you taper, but can also be a good anaerobic set at any point in the season.
In honor of D-Day this week (June 6th), we're honoring the greatest of all Double Ds... Dave Denniston, AKA Davo, who posted this Test Set several years ago. It's become a favorite test set for us, especially around taper time when we're trying to get a feel for what race pace feels like.
Here's a pretty short practice that's a bit small-group oriented. In other words, you're going to need a partner to complete this one.
Working the inner thigh for breaststroke, as well as developing quick, explosive power for starts, turns, and general racing is always a great idea, but sometimes tough to do in our sport.
A couple sets featuring pulling and kicking, and starting to focus on raw speed. Remember: When you're doing sets with a speed focus, don't swim the slow part too fast.
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.