Swimming Technique and Active Recovery Session
Swimming workouts designed by Heidi Fearon
A.
I.
4 Minutes of Hip Flexor Mobility of Your Choice
4 Minutes of Anterior Shoulder Mobility of Your Choice
4 Minutes of Quad Mobility of Your Choice
4 Minutes of Lat & Subscap Mobility of Your Choice
Focus on relaxed breathing throughout these mobility drills. If you cannot breathe properly, the stretch is too intense and you need to back off to the place where you can maintain a rhythmic breathing pattern.
II.
Warm-Up Technique Drills
Four sets of:
50 Meter Finger Tip Drag
Rest 20-30 seconds
Followed by…
Four sets of:
50 Meter Catch-Up Drill
Rest 30 seconds
Main Set
Do your 100’s on a pace that will allow you about 10 seconds of rest at about 70% effort- then maintain that pace for your 200’s. You need to maintain this same pace at 400 so you are probably going to feel very relaxed and slow as you start out.
Four sets of:
100 Meter Freestyle on one of the following intervals: 1:25/1:30/1:35/1:40/1:45/1:50/1:55/2:00
Followed by…
Two sets of:
200 Meter Freestyle on one of the following intervals: 2:50/3:00/3:10/3:20/3:30/3:40/3:50/4:00
Followed by…
One set of:
400 Meter Freestyle on one of the following intervals 5:40/6:00/6:20/6:40/7:00/7:20/7:40/8:00
(the goal is to try to maintain the same pace throughout)
Optional Warm-Down
One set of:
100 Meter Kick-Only
Followed by…
One set of:
100 Meter Pull-Only
B.
Mobility and Maintenance
* Choose 1-2 Thoracic Mobility Drills from Kelly Starrett’s Mobility WOD and spend 5-10 minutes with them.
* Choose 2-3 Lower Body Mobility Drills from Kelly Starrett’s Mobility WOD and spend 10-12 minutes with them.
* Choose 1-2 Upper Extremity Mobility Drills from Kelly Starrett’s Mobility WOD and spend 5-10 minutes with them.
– AND/OR –
* Body work from a licensed body worker (ART, Graston, acupuncture, etc…)
C.
Inflammation Maintenance
* This could be a lot of things, but think in terms of compression (we love the NormaTec units at Invictus), electrical muscle stimulation (Compex or Marc Pro), contrast baths, salt baths, castor oil packs, etc….
D.
Nutrition Preparation
* Ensure that you have quality foods prepared in the appropriate quantities to fuel your efforts for the remainder of the week.
E.
Mental Restoration
* Different for everyone – could be meditation or could be gathering with friends; the key is to engage in activities that make your life full and help you recharge your batteries.
I broke down and got ROMWOD- no swimming Bc I have no access to pool, so we’ll see how this goes.
For time:
10 Legless rope climbs 15′
40 Thrusters (135)
20 Ring MUs
50 Cal Assault Bikes
T2- 27:50 (5:00 50 cal bike)
Back squat
10-5-1-5-10
135, 225, 275 (285x), 225, 135
2 Rounds:
50 cal row
50 push ups
50 GHD sit ups
T2- 17:36
12 Strict pull ups with 40 lb DB
First real swimming workout!
I can swim decently as a fun day in the pool but have never touched a pool in a competitive way. Im excited to see where I am after swimming 1-2 days a week.
Epsom salt bath and stretching tonight and also a lot of food.
A: 2RM Bench press at 120kg
1 rep at 125kg
B: 4 rope climb seated
Etc… monday wod:
3 accomplish then 2 to half way and 1 with leg.
Chest completely burn
Did august 7
Row 5k: 19:50