Threshold Freestyle Set with Nittany Lion’s Max Byers

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Max Byers
Assistant Coach
Nittany Lion Aquatic Club

3x100s         tight descend to P1650 +3      @1:10

2x200s         1 strong, 1 long                       @2:40

500               swim                                        @6:00

3x100s        tight descend to P1650+2          @1:15

2x150s        1 strong, 1 long                         @2:00

500               Faster than the first                  @6:00

3x100s        tight descend to P1650+1         @1:20

2x100s        1 strong, 1 long                        @1:20

500        Faster than the first two                 @6:00

3x100s        Tight descend to P1650            @1:25

2x50s        1 strong, 1 long                          @  :40

500        Race, should be faster than P1650 @——-
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Short Sprint Work with Trojan Swim Club

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Wes Foltz
Assistant Coach Men’s & Women’s Swimming & Diving

University of Southern California
Some “short sprint” backend cord work set below

 
Trojan Swim Club – LCM
Warm Up: 2x [300 – 200 (dr/sw) – 100 k]
4x (pads optional) 
3x 50 (25 head up Br w flutter k/25 free 2rt:2lt)  :55
100 (50 free over k/50 choice build) D1-4  1:30
3x 100 (hold time from last 100 above)  2:00
100 stretch 
4x  w/fins 
2x 50 build k w/bd  
25 uw fish k (dolphin kicks on side)
25 max swim
-coaches interval (C.I)
Short Sprint (move to SCY POOL)
2x 
100 4/3/2/1 breath pattern x25  2:00
-#2 go 1/2/3/4 bre x25
3x 25 MAX swim  :30
25 max on cord (resisted)  1:00
100 ez kick 
2x 
75 3/2/1 breath pattern x25  1:15 
-#2 go 1/2/3 bre x25
50 max swim  1:00
25 max on cord (resisted)  :5rst
25 max w/cord (when tension gives; keep tempo up & get faster) 
8x 25 perfect straight arm  :40
 o- no air
 e- swing breath (keep head in line, breath every stroke)
2x 25 MAX resistance on cord (no breath)
WD 
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Our 3 Most Popular Workouts of the Week

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1. Boom Boom 75s
2. UGA 25s
3. The Shoulberg 500

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Variety Set with Coach Ahrens of Schwimmverein Mannheim

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Wibke Ahrens
Head Coach
Schwimmverein Mannheim, Germany
www.svm-schwimmen.de
Below you will find a nice little morning set I did yesterday with my swimmers.
The day before we had a hard 2×1500 fast so I focused on a large diversity of strokes and distances without too much intensity.
Editor’s Note: Here is the set translated, below is a picture of the set in its original form.  We thought you might be interested in seeing the German abbreviations.
Warm up: 600 Free/Back, Kick/Pull, Drill/ build  200 each
6x 100 Side Kick/ Kick on back/ Side Kick/ Breast Kick on back 25 each @2’15
100 ez
12x 75  50 IMO – 10 wall kicks + turn + uw – 25 fly fast  @1’30
100 ez
2x 400  #1: Free w/pad. 2/3 breathing pattern, #2: IM 25 dril/ 25 build   1′ break
30x 25  2x Free reducing strokes, 1x Main stroke fast @ ’35
100 ez
4x 200 Stroke kicks  Goal: < 3'20  @ 4'
Warm down: 200 ez
—————–
4950m (SCM)

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UGA 25s with Coach Ian Goss

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Ian Goss
Head Coach
Stingrays Swimming

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Set to Perfect Your Finishes

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Chris Brookover
Director – Competitive Swimming

YBCC Phoenix Swimming – Head Swim Coach

This is really short, and I am sure somebody has done it, I was just very surprised at the huge effort my kids gave yesterday at the end of practice. Best way I have found to work finishes yet.
10 x 50 @ 1:00

Broken: 37 ½ Build on :30 , 12 ½ Fastest finish possible at :30

 

The Shoulberg 500

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Brian Clark
Chico Aquajets & Durham Dolphins

Here is the Shoulberg 500.  It can be done any which way, but fast.  The particular one below swimmers have to do each distance a different stroke, their choice.  But of course, fast.

2×25/40
50/1:00

25/40
75/1:20

2×50/1:00
75/1:20
25/40
50/1:00

2×25/40

Good hard, fun set.  Great for a kick set also.

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Sprint Ropes With Josh Sinclair

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Josh Sinclair
Head Coach
Results H2O
Queensland, Australia
 

Details:
4×25 sprint rope – 60 
Odds = B.T.M – (B.T.M = build to max, we used a medium rope)
Evens = MAX F.S 1st 12.5m (F.S = float start, basically swimmer goes deep and pushes off wall and is pulled/towed back, goal is to work their streamline and breakout at the 12.5m mark)

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Boom Boom 75s

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Ryan Woodruff
 
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

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Breaststroke Set #2,174

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Ryan Woodruff
 
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Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

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How often do we ask for feedback?

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Ryan Woodruff

Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

How often do we ask our athletes for feedback? As the ones actually performing the workout, an intelligent athlete is the best judge as to whether a workout was effective.  Recently I had my team perform the following set:

The group did an excellent job on the set.  When we concluded, I asked them to consider ways in which the set could have been improved.  Here are the suggestions that I got:

The first suggestion was most popular — they would have preferred to have been able to choose the drill they got to do rather than the ones I prescribed (at the bottom of the first picture).  Overall, I was pleased with the level of thought they put into this and the fact that the suggestions didn’t all make the workout “easier.”

Overall, it was a good moment of trust and communication between athletes and coach.  I highly recommend you give it a try sometime.

7 Motivational Tips for Swim Coaches

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Ryan Woodruff

Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

1. Write down your “why,” the reason that you coach.  Not just a phrase, but in actual paragraph form, written by hand. “I coach because…” Keep it somewhere where you can go back and look at it every once in a while.

2. Have an email folder or a place where you can store what I call “rainy day reads.” Put positive e-mails, notes of thanks and other feel-good words of encouragement in there.  When you are having a day where you are feeling less than motivated, open this folder and read its contents.

3. Exercise. Stay fit.  It can be tough to keep an exercise habit through long weekend meets, crappy hospitality food, and hours upon hours of standing on deck.  I am willing to bet your hotel has a treadmill and I can tell you from experience that it is not being used at 10pm.  Read this article.

4. Seek out other ideas.  Reading our blog, ProSwimWorkouts, or these resources helps keep your practices interesting for you AND your swimmers.

5. Have a plan. Not having to go through the “what are we doing today” process makes it easier to stay the course over the length of the season.

6. If you had your swimmers fill out goal sheets at the beginning of the season, go back and read through them again. Seeing the dreams and goals of the swimmers in your care will help re-charge your batteries.

7. Thank your mentor.  All of us have someone who helped us get started in the sport. Visit them or call them up and express your thanks.  Gratitude is the best attitude.

Stay Motivated, Stay Positive, Stay Successful.

Happy Coaching!

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Swimming Fast with Tired Legs

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Ryan Woodruff
 
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

We don’t do a lot of kick sets in isolation as I don’t think it relates well to racing.  This is one example of a set where we combined some intense kicking with race-pace swimming.  We did this is a 25m pool. The 50 at 200 pace is significantly harder with fatigued legs, but this is an absolutely essential skill to swim a good 200 race. FPA = Fastest Possible Average
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Challenge 175s

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

We performed this set in a SCM pool.  Most swimmers found the goal time on #1 only moderately challenging and found the goal time on #3 extremely challenging, and a few succeeded in making all three multiple times.  The 3 x 50 served as a sort of “pre-set” and the 400 was meant as a mindful recovery swim.  Swimmers could do the 175s any stroke or as IM (200 IM minus a 25 free) and were free to change strokes by round.  Interval on the 175s was determined by taking a swimmer’s best 200 LCM time, adding 20 seconds, and rounding up to the nearest interval.

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Big Set with Coach Mathieu Leroy of Chartres, France

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Mathieu Leroy
Chartres, France

I work with swimmers between 13 and 15 who are qualifying for French elite nationals or young French nationals.

 
We did this workout in a long course meters pool.

1 hour of dryland first
Focus: aerobic progressive freestyle set
“20×400”
#1 and # 2 are warm-up: 400 FRIM (#1 with fins / #2 without fins)
#3/4/5/6: 400 Fr @ 6′ / 2×200 fr faster @3′ / 4×100 fr faster @1’30”/ 8×50 fr best average @45”)
1 minute rest
#7/8/9/10 with fins: 400 fr @5’30” / 2×200 fr faster @2’45” / 4×100 fr faster @1’25” / 8×50 fr best average @45”
1 minute rest
#11/12/13/14 with pull buoy-straps-paddles: 400 fr @6′ / 2×200 fr faster @3′ / 4×100 fr faster @1’30” / 8×50 fr best average @50”
1 minute rest
#15/16/17/18 with fins and paddles: 400 fr @5’20” / 2×200 fr @2’40” / 4×100 fr @1’20” / 8×50 fr best average @40”
#19 (with fins)/20 are active rest: (50 Bk kick-100 IM swim-50 Fr swim).
TOTAL 8000m
GOALS TIMES for the set
400’s => focus on long stroke and same number at each lap.
2×200’s => at anaerobic threshold
4×100’s=> above threshold (at 1500 pace)
8×50’s=> best average (try to hold or beat 400 pace)

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Freestyle Pull Challenge Set with Coach Ryan Sprang

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Ryan Sprang
Head Coach
Nittany Lion Aquatic Club

SCY
Pull -500’s just make the interval
200’s under 2:00

500 @ 5:30
200 @ 2:15
500 @ 5:30
2 x 200 @ 2:10
500 @ 5:30
3 x 200 @2:05
500 @ 5:30
4 x 200 @2:00

See Coach Sprang’s very popular IM Set as well

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The Middle IM Solution

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA
This set is designed to work on the weaker of a swimmer’s two strokes that make up the middle of the IM.  For 2:00, weaker backstrokers perform scull-scull-stroke (two sculls on the right side + a right-hand stroke and switch to the other side) while weaker breaststrokers do 3 kicks-1 pull drill. A wrench bang on the side of the pool signals swimmers to switch to the second set of instructions for 1:30.  A second wrench bang signals the start of the :30 rest and swimmers proceed to the nearest wall.  The fast 75 works on transition turns and we specifically are trying to improve our back-breast crossover turn.

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Distance Free and Stroke HR Set with Specific Technical Focus

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

“Individual Technique” refers to specific stroke corrections that were highlighted in individual meetings with swimmers.  We were asking swimmers to have their 10-second HR at 20-24 beats after each 500.  The green portion was for the A, B, and C interval groups to ensure that all completed the set at around the same time.

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Race Pace 50s the Hard Way

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

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Recently, I have become concerned that our race pace work was too “sterilized” (meaning it doesn’t mimic the conditions of a race), so the idea here was to keep their heart rate up in between the groups of 50s by setting an interval that didn’t allow them to swim slowly or recover completely.  For some athletes, this set was a great success while others (typically the more sprinter types) really struggled.  Our swimmers all have pace cards so they can quickly know exactly what pace+1 etc is. All 50s were choice but swimmers were strongly encourage to do each round of 50s of a single stroke.

Swimming Wizard Week in Review

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IM and Freestyle Pre-Set

Working on 500 Race Pace with the Twin Rivers YMCA

Breaststroke Technique Set with the Piranhas

Taper Speed Set with Nicholas Wooters

Stretch Cord Set for Power and Speed

Challenge Set from Shawn Santo, Mid Michigan Aquatics

Breaststroke Tempo Set with Parker Ramsdell, York Swim Club

And one for the road: 19.5 Ways to Get Better Even When Practice Gets Cancelled

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Breaststroke Tempo Set with York Swim Club Coach Parker Ramsdell

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Parker Ramsdell
York Swim Club

I did this set (SCM) with my breaststrokers yesterday morning and really enjoyed it.

The 200s provided a solid aerobic touch to the training, and we’ve been really struggling with pullout discipline later in races, thus the no touch walls to put some extra pressure on the lungs on those underwaters.

The 100s w/ tempo trainer set at 04:00 (25-1 stroke/beep; 50-2 strokes/beep; 25-3 strokes/beep) helped them work body line and glide for the first 75, then pick up the tempo on the last 25 helping prime them for the fast 50s to follow.

Total – 3500m

Round 1 – 4x each distance
Round 2 – 3x each distance
Round 3 – 2x each distance
Round 4 – 1x each distance

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Age Group Challenge Set from Coach Shawn Santo of Mid Michigan Aquatics

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Shawn Santo
Assistant Coach
Mid Michigan Aquatics

This is a set I created for our advanced age group kids.  Putting the rest between each section really allowed the kids to focus on one part at a time. We had a great effort.  For some it was touch and go for the 100s and 50s, but everyone made the intervals.

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