10.28.2010

A Halloween Set during Adaptation Week (for age groupers)

Clare Labowitch
Head Coach Darwin Swimming Club
Northern Territory, Australia
5k Pre-Halloween Excursion to the Dark Side (10-15 sec RI throughout)

Warm Up
4 x 100 two headed monsters (a variation of top and tail, this has two swimmers stroking with a kicker hanging on to each of their feet)
8 x 50 ghost slider + stealth free (max uw s/l on side, keep upper body very still, lead with one arm other by side,smooth breakout into no splash free with high elbow recovery)
6 x 50 scare tactics (with fins – 25 uw dolphin 25 max sprint)

Pre-Set
600 vampire chase 2 swimmers begin 20m in front of three other swimmers with fins who work as a pursuit team to catch them – once caught roles are rotated. The third swimmer in the line is the catcher which forces the swimmers to work together)
6 x 50 scramble home relay(swimmers s/l under floating mat then swim to and climb over, best they can, a fitness ball to get to the end).

Main
2[6 x 200 medley mashups (change around medley order/distances and even leave out a stroke for each repeat)
    4 x 50 carrying the weight (dolphin kick on back holding up medicine ball)

Cool down
4 x 50 zombie crawl (25 on back swimming feet forwards; 25 swim freestyle backwards)

10.25.2010

Aerobic Speed

Gary Galbreath
Dayton Raiders

We did this set during what I called Aerobic speed week. This was done Short Course Meters.
We gave all swimmers aggressive times to hold.  All said it was the hardest set of the summer.

400/350 Pull @ 5:15
4 x 50 Drill @ 50
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1 x 100 Dive Fast @ 2:00
400/350 Pull @ 5:15
4 x 50 Drill @ 50
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2 x 100 Dive Fast @ 2:00
400/350 Pull @ 5:15
4 x 50 Drill @ 50
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3 x 100 Dive Fast @ 2:00
400/350 Pull @ 5:15
4 x 50 Drill @ 50
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4 x 100 Dive Fast @ 2:00

500 Warm-Down (50 Kick-50 Swim)


10.01.2010

I.M. a Hokie

Braden Holloway
Associate Head Coach, Virginia Tech

Aerobic Base IM set for 400 IMers.
Done in SC Yards

350 IM @ 4:45 (50/125/125/50)
3 x 100 FR @ 1:15
400 IM @ 5:30 (75/125/125/75)
400 FR @ 5:00
450 IM @ 6:15 (100/125/125/100)
5 x 100 @ 1:10
500 IM @ 6:45 (100/150/150/100)
600 FR @ 7:00
550 IM @ 7:30 (125/150/150/125)
7 x 100 FR @ 1:05 PULL
600 IM @ 8:15 (125/175/175/125)
800 FR @ 9:00 PULL
Hold entire set 5-6 beats below max heart rate
Total: 6150 yards