SwimSwam wants to give you an inside look at what a normal day-in-the-life looks like for any given swimmer, and how that differs from team to team or city to city. We send our head of production, Coleman Hodges, to be a fly on the wall at practice, then relay what he discovered back to you over pancakes. Or at least breakfast.
Continuing on the Southeast SwimSwam Pancake Tour 2019, we stopped at Georgia on a Wednesday. If you didn’t see the morning practice from that day, don’t worry! It’s right here for your viewing pleasure. In the afternoon, the dawgs were doing a pace set, although not everyone’s was quite the same.
The main group (majority of the swimmers), which included olympians Gunnar Bentz, Jay Litherland, Melanie Margalis, and Chase Kalisz, were all doing the same main set, which went as follows:
8×50 Pace @ :45
300 pull or drill/swim
6×50 Faster than pace @ :55
200 EZ
4×50 MAX @ 1:10
100 EZ
16×25 1 FAST / 1 EZ @ :30
100 EZ
We also got to see the UGA men’s breaststroke group in action, which included postgrads Nic Fink and Andrew Wilson as well as current UGA swimmer James Guest.
Over in the sprint group, which included postgrads Olivia Smoliga and Natalie Hinds, they were doing more of a Max VO2 set, yet one that still added up to 20×50 at a certain effort. Their workout included 50’s of stroke fast, 50’s with paddles, 50 25 kick/25 swim fast, and ended with a 100 for time. On this 100, Hinds touched at 49.5 (free) while Smoliga touched at 52.6 (back).
Andrew Wilson was killing me on all those breaststroke finishes. Take another stroke!!
Right!! Too long on the finish and turns
Smoliga’s underwaters are insane.
get this man a mic!
Quite disappointed to not see any of footage of Blake Atmore here. That guy knows what he’s doing.
Blake doesn’t go to Wednesday night practice because he’s making money moves
I love this Pancake video series. It’s great to see a daily practice & thanks for posting the main set. Daily inspiration for me often comes in seeing what someone else is doing on a daily basis.