Wednesday Practice Report & Today's workout

Yesterday's main set:

3x400

3x300

3x200

3x100

The first of each set of 3 was Backstroke swim

The second of each set of 3 was Breaststroke swim

The fourth of each set of 3 was Freestyle Kick

I thought we had a nice effort all the way though the set.  The longer swims allowed our athletes to really "get into their strokes".  We did some good 75s with FINS to finish the practice.

The way we can improve with this type of workout: improve your weaknesses!

75% of the group is lacking in one area and so we have trouble getting more than 1-2 people firing on all cylinders through the duration of the set (a stronger backstroker may be in the lead on backstroke, but is nowhere to be found on breaststroke, etc).  To me, if we are going to have a 1:47 200 Backstroker on the Men's Side, or a 1:55 200 backstroker on the women's side, then those athletes probably have to be serviceable on the breaststroke to the point where even if breast is their least-dominant stroke they can still lead the group on a set like this.

National Finalists or future NCAA Finalists will be so good at their best things in practice that their not-so-great skills and strokes are still at the top of most USA Swimming Senior-aged training groups!

Here's what we've got today.  Back to "meat & potatoes" freestyle training for the day!