An easy session for the start of the season
First Swim Back Session
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 Nausiator
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 →
Pyramid Down, Build Up
This is a nice main set that gets in a bit of mileage in without being boring. The times given are for my A2 or 80% days, sometimes I'll make this an AT by reducing the rests by 5 seconds on both the 50s and 100s. Before this main set I would normally have about... Continue Reading →
Wall of water
Blog post on training for the World Masters 2017
Work those walls
How to execute a freestyle turn and why you should work on it.
