Where’s your head at?
Swim session focusing on breathing & head position
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1 min readMar 17, 2017
What will you need:
- Pull buoy
- Paddles
Warm up (400m)
- 2 x (50m easy FC, 50m kick on back, 50m paddles, 50m pull buoy)
Drills (400m)
- 3 x sink downs
- 100m easy any breathing pattern, concentrate on continuous exhale
- 100m easy breathing every 3rd stroke, concentrate on continuous exhale
- 100m easy concentrate on low head and smooth head turn
- 100m pop-eye easy concentrating on low head, one eye out of water, breathing through side of mouth
Build Set (250m)
- 25m breathing every 2 to weakest side
- 25m breathing every 2 to strongest side
- 50m breathing every 3,
- 50 m breathing alt 3 & 5
- 50m breathing every alt 3, 5, 7
- 50m breathing every 3
Main Set (600m)
- breathing every 3rd stroke
- 6 x 100m on 30 secs: as 75m easy, 25m medium
Cool down
- 100m super easy, any stroke
