Friday, February 29, 2008

2100 yards - short and sweet

400 warm up

8x50 pace :50, 1:00, 1:10 pick the interval depending on your ability

3x200 pull on 3:30 or 3:45 bilateral breathe 5, 7, 5, 7 by 50

8x25 kick sprints on 1:00, :45, or :30

100 easy

3200 yards - yay 200s!

500 warm up

repeat the following 3 times through
200 free on the 3:15
200 free on the 3:15
200 stroke (i.e. backstroke or breaststroke) on the 3:45

50 easy/stretch

10x75 build to all out sprint within each 75 on the 1:15

100 cool down

2500 yards - pyramid

a pyramid if you don't have time for a long work out ...

(all freestyle with 10 second rest in between each distance)
100 stretch out/warm up
200 kick
300 build
400 pull
500 swim hard
400 pull
300 build
200 kick
100 cool down

3500 yards - mixing it up

300 Swim
300 Kick
300 Pull

10x50 pace on :50, 1:00, 1:00 (pick the interval depending on your ability)

two times through:
50 (10 sec rest)
100 (15 sec rest)
200 (20 sec rest)
100 (15 sec rest)
50 (10 sec rest)

6x150 (25 stroke/25 free by 50)

150 cool down

3500 yards - interval and pacing work

Two different intervals here, depending on your ability, feel free to modify the interval as you need:

200 Swim
200 Kick
200 Pull
200 Swim

8 x 100 pace on the 1:35 or 1:50
8 x 150 middle 50 hard on the 2:30 or 2:45
8 x 50 sprint IM (50 fly, 50 back, 50 breast, 50 free, then repeat) on the 1:00

300 easy cool down

3550 yards - distance/endurance focus

200 Swim
200 Kick
200 Pull

5 x 500 pace (figure out your own interval and stick to it: 1:30 base is 7:30, 1:40 base is 8:20, 1:50 base is 9:10)

5 x 50 sprint on the 1:00

200 easy

3000 yards - stroke efficiency focus

warm up: 400 free

swim golf (count your strokes in each 50 - the goal is to reduce the number of strokes you need to take): 6x50 on 15 sec rest

main set: 15x100 on 20 sec rest
1-5 focus on catch
6-10 focus on pull
11-15 focus on finish

swim golf (see if there's a difference from the first round): 6x50 on 15 sec rest

kick: 6x50 on 20 sec rest

cool down: 200 easy (alternate 50 pull/50 swim)

2800 yards - arms and legs focus

Choose your own intervals

warm up: 400 free

4x200 free (50 arms/50 legs/100 both)

2x500 free (100 hard/100 medium/100 hard ...)

4x100 kick

cool down: 200 free