These practices are written for the competitive USMS swimmers that meet at the Swim Atlanta pool in Roswell at noon.
If you feel you're not in the shape that you once were, come anyway. If you can't make every practice, that's fine. If you have to come late or get out early, that's fine. If you don't want to compete, then you are in the majority because most don't. If you can make every entire practice and you do want to compete, that's great too.
Not all of the swimmers do the intervals listed below. They scale the intervals or repeats as needed.
Come join us! Contact aaron@swimatlanta.com or (770) 992-7946 or send me a private message.
Some examples of common acronyms that will be used:
KDS: Kick drill swim
300 IM KDS: 4 times through in IM order (25 kick, 25 drill, 25 swim)
1000 SKIPS: 200 Swim, 200 Kick, 200 IM, 200 Pull, 200 Swim
1000 SKIDS: 200 Swim, 200 Kick, 200 IM, 200 Drill, 200 Swim
IMO by round: The stroke for first round of a set should be fly, second round should be back, etc
RIM or RIMO: Reverse IM or Reverse IM order
FRIM: IM except replace the fly with free
UW: underwater
BC4: Breathe every 4
CH: Choice
Str: Stroke. Usually not freestyle.
V-Sprint: #1 as fast/easy, #2 as easy/fast, #3 as easy, #4 as fast
- These are notes on my own performance. For example, means I was holding :28.
Each post consists of the practices for an entire week.
Note that extra spacing between portions of the practice indicates that we took a break. For example, the following would indicate taking an unspecified amount of rest after the first 5 100's on 1:20 before moving on to the next 5 100's on 1:15.5x100 1:20
5x100 1:15
Whereas, the lack of extra spacing in the following example means that we swam everything straight through with no break after the first 5 100's.5x100 1:20
5x100 1:15
But sometimes I might designate rest between portions as follows:5x100 1:20
:60 rest
5x100 1:15
If you reference my performances (designated by square brackets), note that I am a relatively slow kicker and that my best races are 50, 100, & 200 Freestyle and 50 & 100 Fly.
The initial plan for 2017-2018 is...
Aug-December: Training oriented toward an early December "shave & taper" meet
December-March: Training oriented toward an early/mid March "shave & taper" meet
March-July: Training oriented toward an end-of-summer "shave & taper" meet.
Only swim practices are specified here: any supplementary strength & conditioning activities will not be included in this thread.
MON - LCM
400 Swim
300 IM KDS
200 Kick
4x25 V-sprint :30
4x100 1:20
100 Easy 3:00
3x100 1:20
100 Easy 2:30
2x100 1:20
50 Easy 2:00
1x100
4x (CH STR by round or IMO)
...25 Scull, 25 Kick :10 rest
...25 Kick, 25 Drill :10 rest
...25 Drill, 25 DPS :10 rest
...25 DPS, 25 Build :30 rest
100 for time with fins + paddles
100 Easy
Total:
70 min
3250m (Kick 500m)
TUES - LCM
500 Swim
4x50 IM Drill :10 rest
6x50 with fins (25 K, 25 drill) :10 rest
3x300 Descend 1-3, 5:00
300 with fins K 6:00
3x200 Descend 1-3, 3:20
300 with fins K 6:00
3x100 Descend 1-3, 1:40
300 with fins K 6:00
3x25 against bungee :60
100 Easy
Total:
75 min
3900m (Kick 1050m)
WED - LCM
200 Swim
50 FL K
200 IM Drill/Swim
50 BK K
200 Drill
50 BR K
200 Swim
50 FR K
1x50 Hard K 1:30
1x50 Easy BR K 1:15
2x50 Hard K 1:30
1x50 Easy BR K 1:15
3x50 Hard K 1:30
1x50 Easy BR K 1:15
4x50 Hard K 1:30
1x50 Easy BR K 1:15
5x50 Hard K 1:30
1x50 Easy BR K 1:15
3x (FL, BK, FR by round)
...2x50 Drill :15 rest
...2x50 DPS :15 rest
100 FL for time
100 Easy
Total:
70 min
2800m (Kick 1200m)
THUR - LCM
400 Swim
300 IM KDS
12x25 V-sprint (Round #1 FR on :30, #2 K on :35, #3 STR)
12x50 1:05 IMO
600 Easy K with fins
6x50 1:05 FR
:60 extra rest
6x50 1:05 FR
50 Easy 2:00
50 STR for time 2:00
50 STR for time 2:00
50 Easy 1:30
50 FR for time
600 Easy
Total:
75+ min
3650m (Kick 800m)
FRI - SCY
400 Swim
300 IM KDS
200 Pull
100 Drill
2x
...2x300 Pull (Round 1: No paddles, 3:45; Round 2: paddles, 4:00)
...2x150 Pull (Round 1: No paddles, 1:55; Round 2: paddles, 2:00)
...Rest :40
8x125 BK with fins (100 Swim + 25 K) 1:40
10x25 K :40 hard
100 Easy
Total:
70 min
4150y (Kick 550y)