Tag: Freestyle

Freestyle Set for 11-12 Year-olds at SwimMAC

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Max Cristofori
North Dolphin Division Lead/ North Dolphin 1 Lead Coach
SwimMAC Carolina

This set uses these drills (click for videos)
Arizona freeze drill
Thumper Kick
 

1x
      4×25 Paddle Push Fr K  snkl:45 (2 paddle up against the front of each wrist)
      2×25 Paddle Push alt 1-Arm w paddle snkl Fr K :45 (1 paddle up against the front of wrist)
      4×25 Arizona Freeze Drill 3 count snkl :40 
1x
      20×25 Free :25 Rainbow Focus 2+4/0+2 (4 underwater dolphins, 2 strokes without a breath on exit)
1-5 = Elbow Forward, Hands Pointed Down 
6-10 = Count S/L (strokes per length)
11-15 = S/L -1 per 25
16-20 = 2+5 (5 underwater kicks)
1x
      4×25 1-Arm Fr -full rotation  :40 
      2×25 3/4 Catch Up – Drive the Hips :40
      4×25 Overload Fr Drill :30 (paddle on right hand, fin on left foot. Slow arm stroke with non paddle hand and then quick pull through til paddle hand is set)
1x
      20×100 Free 1:30 Rainbow Focus 2+4/0+2 
1-5 = Drive the hips 
6-10 = Count S/L 
11-15 = S/L +1 per 25
16-20 = 2+5
1x
      2×25 Thumper Kick w/ snkrl :45
      4×25 12.5 Thumper/12.5 small little fast kicks :40
      4×50 Free K :50
1x
      20×50 Free :45 Rainbow Focus 2+4/0+2 
1-5 = power the kick 
6-10 = speed the kick 
11-15 = Max UW kickout on turn 
16-20 = streamline kick last 5 yards

Distance Freestyle Set with Coach Andy Figgins in Scotland

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Coach Andy Figgins
East Kilbride Swim Team
Scotland

A set for my distance group, was done about 8 weeks out from Nationals

3 x (4×400 free                        BBM = Heart Rate Beats Below Max

       (4×100 free all on 1.30
Set 1 400s aerobic on 5.00 
           100s 40/50 BBM
Set 2 400s descend on 5.15
            100s 20/30 BBM
Set 3 400s best ave on 5.30
            100s best hold
All the best for 2017

This one was interesting and went well. Plenty o’ freestyle.

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

The “rebound kicking” is kicking into the wall and then pushing off of it immediately with the hands, and repeating that process four times.

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Groovin’ that Pace

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

I had a lone swimmer do this set in a 25m pool recently on her last day before beginning taper.  The idea was for her to get into a groove with her 500 free race pace and be able to repeat it over and over again.  Seemed to work well as most of the timed 50s were about 0.8-1.0 faster than her “best time” pace and near her goal pace.  While I didn’t want it to feel extremely difficult, she seemed challenged and performed well and fairly consistently.

40 x 50
repeating the following set of ten for 4 rounds
1 at P500 @ 1:00
1 easy free @ :50
2 at P500 @ 1:00
1 easy free @ :50
3 at P500 @ 1:00
2 easy free @ :50

She got a bit of rest on the 500 pace 50s, while the recovery 50s only provided 6-9 seconds of rest on the wall before pushing off on the next one.

How to swim the 200 free

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

This was an effort to help some of our swimmers “figure out” the 200 free.  We followed up with a set specifically designed to practice for this event.  That set will come in a later post.

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How to swim the 200 free

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Freestyle Workout #7,839

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

Freestyle main focus today.  Splitting the group into “true distance swimmers” and mid-distance folks doing some aerobic work. “4.D.R.” refers to the 4-Dolphin Rule, swimmers must do 4 dolphin kicks off every wall.  4.D.R. was an idea I picked up from a podcast I listened to this summer with Tony Batis of PASA.

Feel that P500 burn!

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

I explained before the set that this was not necessarily set up for them to succeed on all 4 x 100s.  My intent was to challenge them to hit their goal times, not to make it simple for them.  The first round was difficult and some failed to make their objectives.  They stepped up big after that and we had many swimmers making the Goal 500 pace on the last few rounds!

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The 10 Sculls

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Ryan Woodruff
Head Coach
Lynchburg YMCA

I love sculling. There are an infinite number of ways one can scull, and it is always good to work on one’s feel for the water.

Today we did 10 x 100 @ :20 rest, 50 scull/50 swim freestyle with max efficiency. We used a snorkel on all but #8 and #10.

Here were the sculls:

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