Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Tennis Ball and Paddlehead Technique Work
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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“That’s what I call a butt-kicker”
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
That is a direct quote from a swimmer.
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Working the Middle of the IM
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Quality D and Sprint Sets
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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We were pretty engaged and focused for this set tonight. 9 days out from our championship meet, our D free kids were especially locked in.
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Fly-IM Set
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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The last part was essentially a broken 400 IM. Swimmers said they liked the set and did well on the last portion.
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Tennis Balls and FPA
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Freestyle Workout #1,289
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Buckets and 75s
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Freestyle Descend Challenge Set
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Speed Set For Taper Time
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Low Intensity Resistance Set
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
Not going fast helped us feel the strokes a little more effectively. Paying attention to cycle count rather than time.
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A Good One, Yep, Yep!
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Kick Set to Be Awesome
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Sprinty Set
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Race Pace Set for 400 IM or 500 Free
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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IM Set #138
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Kick + FrIM
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
SCM. These two sets were a pre-amble to our main set.
FrIM = FreeIM, which is IM with Freestyle in place of fly.
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Butterfly Build Set
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Dueling Kick Sets
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
We did these two parallel kick sets recently because we only have enough Drag Sox for 1/2 of my group to wear at one time. Prior to this, we had mostly used the Sox for short bouts of underwater kicking and sprint swimming. I loved this set — it was something a little different that really made them push themselves. We were in a 25m pool.
Group A did:
9 x 50 flutter kick with Drag Sox and board @ 1:40.
While Group B did:
10 x 75 flutter kick with board Descend 1-5 and 6-10 @1:30
Then switch sets.
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Quality Groove Set
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
The 25s were holding back just a little, aiming to let the full effort out on the 50s.
We followed this up with a surprise 4 x 100 all out off the blocks.
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Seven is the Luckiest Number
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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IM Transition 100s
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Steady Free and Some Fly & Kick
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
SCM. We needed some steady swimming at a moderate pace after a few days of intensity and racing at meets. Also wanted to get some fly in but wanted to make sure they didn’t have to “dodge” or take one-arm strokes thus the 25 swim/25 KOB (kick on back).
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Awesome Underwater Set with Drag Sox
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Freestyle Descend and Drill
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
Big Rest Fly + NoFlyIM
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
SCM. We split the fly out into intervals that allowed us to not have to dodge swimmers coming the opposite direction. We got some pretty good efforts on the black parts, and some had the option to do bk-fr instead of bk-br-fr.
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Good morning, Breaststroke!
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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Butterfly Rhythm Set
Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
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