After 20+ years of coaching and writing workouts I am in need of some inspiration. I need to break out of my typical workout design and get some new ideas.... If any of you could take the time and post your favorite workout (sprint, stroke, lactate, or distance) or maybe just post your favorite set, it would help put together some new ideas for my team and myself...
Thanks!!!!!
I am no expert, and I frequently tend to wing it, however... One thing I like to do is set a workout distance, then break it up into even swim/kick/pull chunks, doing something different for each chunk. For example, if I planned to do 4500 yds I would do 5 x (300 S/K/P). The first chunk would be warmup. The second chunk might be 4x75 swim, 4x75 kick, 4x75 pull as a pre-set. I'd combine the next two S/K/P somehow as the main set (maybe two 300's swim, 4 150's kick and a 600 pull), then use the last S/K/P as a bit of hypoxic swimming and a kick set and cool down with an easy 300 pull.
I'm not claiming there's any rhyme or reason to the idea. It provides a sometimes helpful constraint to planning the workout though.
Skip Montanaro
I am no expert, and I frequently tend to wing it, however... One thing I like to do is set a workout distance, then break it up into even swim/kick/pull chunks, doing something different for each chunk. For example, if I planned to do 4500 yds I would do 5 x (300 S/K/P). The first chunk would be warmup. The second chunk might be 4x75 swim, 4x75 kick, 4x75 pull as a pre-set. I'd combine the next two S/K/P somehow as the main set (maybe two 300's swim, 4 150's kick and a 600 pull), then use the last S/K/P as a bit of hypoxic swimming and a kick set and cool down with an easy 300 pull.
I'm not claiming there's any rhyme or reason to the idea. It provides a sometimes helpful constraint to planning the workout though.
Skip Montanaro
