Com Games Gold medalist & Olympic Bronze medalist, Cameron McEvoy has swum some tough sets during his career, over the next few weeks I’m going expose you to a number of his toughest training sets (and variations for mere mortals).
Each Saturday I will post a Swim Session, most weeks I will load three options up for you to do. Option A is for swimmers who are after a workout between 1,000 & 2,000 metres. Option B is for swimmers who are after a workout between 2,000 & 3,000m and Option C will be greater than 3,000m.
The inspiration for today’s workout comes from an article by Olivier Poirier-Leroy at YourSwimLog.com, you can read the full article here.
- 12x 200m (every second MAX)
- 40x 50m backstroke @ 45sec
The Main Sets start with a set of twelve, 200m reps. Every second repetition is done at max effort. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t detail how much rest was taken but I envisage it would be significant to enhance your speed to get the most out of your max effort reps.
The second set is 40 reps of 50m backstroke swum at a 45-second pace for the 50s. Cameron’s Personal Best (PB) for 50m backstroke is 24.05 seconds meaning if he swam the reps averaging 30 seconds he still gets a fifteen-second Rest Interval (RI) before each rep.
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