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Workout Context
- Purpose: Capacity (Base) Building
- Target age group: 23+ years old
- Target level: Masters (Beginner), Masters (Intermediate), Masters (Advanced)
- Weeks until target meet: 4 weeks
- Team Location: United States
- Course: 25 Meters
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The Workout
A distance workout to build base distance and fitness, with some variety to keep it interesting and help swimmers develop their ‘manual transmission’ and ability to access and control different effort levels.
Warm Up ALL [1100]
300 loosen choice
300 K/DR/SW by 25 [IMO or alt NF/FR]
100 kick choice (fins)
100 Tumbler (fins)
2 x 150 Free Breathe 3/5/7/3 or 2/4/6/2 – option to pull
Main Set [Coach: give swimmers the option to PULL any 2 of 5 subsets below]
3 x 100 Descend Technique/Aerobic/High Aerobic @:10R
400 negative split Aerobic/High Aerobic
2 x 250 Pyramid by 50 @:15R
600 as 50 build + 100 smooth [Repeat 4x continuously within the 600]
4 x 100 alt fast/technique @:10R
[Coach: a Pyramid builds the effort up to the middle and then reduce the effort. For a ‘250 Pyramid’, instruct swimmers to build the effort as 50 Technique, 50 Aerobic, 50 High Aerobic, and then reduce effort as 50 Aerobic, 50 Technique, as a continuous 250 swim.]
Cool Down
200 PULL as 50 strong + 150 smooth
100 as 25 strong + 75 smooth
Coach Notes
The swim coach was asked to define any shorthand he or she used in this workout. Their notes should provide some additional context to this swimming workout.
K = Kick
DR = Drill Choice
SW = Swim Choice
NF = Non Free
FR = Freestyle
IMO = IM Order
Lana Burl
Masters Coach, Prime Aquatics
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