Category: Sets

Home Dryland Routine

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Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA

Here is a dryland circuit to do.
Materials needed:

  • 2 cones or markers set up 10 yards apart
  • a mat or towel,
  • a nearby step or set of stairs

1. Shuttle run – 10 laps (down and back) of a 10-yard shuttle run
2. 10 squats (Varsity and National swimmers do 20 of all of these exercises)
3. 10 pushups
4. Shuttle run – 8 laps
5. 10 v-ups
6. 10 ninjas-in-a-rowboat – see video
7. Shuttle run – 6 laps
8. 10 steam engines – see video
9. 10 frog jumps
10. Shuttle run – 4 laps
11. 10 lunges
12. 10 calf raises with toes on step
13. Shuttle run – 2 laps
14. 10 Star jumps – see video
15. 10 burpees

Take 5:00 rest and REPEAT!!!

The 21 Club

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Brian Ruffles
Head Coach & Aquatics Director
Coe College Swimming and Diving

Three Rounds of:
7 x 100 @1:10/1:05/1:00
7 x 50 @:30/:35/:40

In each round the 100s interval decrease by :05 and the 50s increase by :05.  The 50s starting interval should be challenging while the 100s are more manageable.  You can customize it in many ways.  I have done the 100s free with the 50s specially, the 100s specialty with the 50s kick, or really whatever fits the group with the time of year.  I would make sure that the last round of 100s is not the interval that is too fast for them to make as the first two rounds will take a lot out of them.  If they make the set they join the prestigious 21 club!

Editor’s note: This set was first published on this blog in October 2015

It is amazing what people can accomplish with enough motivation!!!

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Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA

This was our finish to practice today. We have done 25s underwater pretty consistently, so every swimmer knows his or her best time. The lifetime bests were written down on a dry erase board and this challenge was thrown. If you can beat your best twice, you get to go home. Amazingly, more than half of our swimmers were able to accomplish this feat. The mind is an amazing thing!

The I.M. Merry-Go-Round

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Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA

SCM. We did this IM Set recently. At the conclusion of the set I asked each swimmer two give me two scores on a scale of 1-10. The first score was for how challenging the set was (lowest score was an 8), the second was for how well they thought they did (lowest score was a 7).

Note the stroke instructions on the right were different for each of the four parts on each round. On the 16×25 of the fly round, the EZ 25 was permitted to be freestyle, but on all other rounds all 25s were of the specific stroke.

Total distance: 4,000m

Total time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Q: Why is it called the “I.M. Merry-Go-Round”?

A: Because it looks fun, but after an hour you can’t wait for it to stop!

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