A nice little speed set that is useful for injecting speed during the season or as a taper session.
Speed/Taper Set
General Aerobic Session 5
This session is mostly IM focused with some freestyle and even some speed mixed in. I like sessions like these sometimes as changing every 500m or so keeps things interesting. As usual I must point out that these are my sessions that I swim, people are free to try them and adapt them, but do... Continue Reading →
Anaerobic Wave (Anaerobic LP)
A "fun" little anaerobic set I found among my pile of documents from coaching workshops and courses.
General Aerobic Session 3 (Individual Medley)
An aerobic IM training session.
The Gothenburg Pyramid (IM Aerobic)
A challenging IM aerobic session written by my fellow Gothenburg Sim coach
First Swim Back Session
An easy session for the start of the season
How to improve your body position when swimming
Mikes advice on how to improve your body position in the water.
Start of Season IM
An IM based session to ease into the start of a season
The Limerick Masters Set
An aerobic frontcrawl session I swam with some members of the Limerick Masters swimming club.
General Aerobic Session 2 (Freestyle + some speed)
An aerobic session that uses mostly freestyle. It also incorporates some speedwork.
General Aerobic Session 1 (Freestyle)
An aerobic freestyle session
Beginners Anaerobic
A simple anaerobic session I use at the beginning of a season or with Junior swimmers when introducing them to anaerobic work
Taper Time
Blog entry on Mikes training for the FINA World Masters 2017
The Nauseator
A good warm-up is especially imporant for this session. I will have anywhere between 800-900m done before I start. Some recommend doing up to 1000m as a warm-up, but unfortunately I usually don't have that kind of time. This session is meant to be flat out speed wise. The first 100 is to be the... Continue Reading →
Build up that Fly
I usually take this as a handy A1 session, of course a bit of intensity can be added to get more of a work out. This can be adapted for all four strokes by substituting the one armed fly with another drill. warm-up 150m Fc, 150m Bc, 100m pull, 100m kick, 100m swim main... Continue Reading →
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