Practice + Pancakes: UNLV Fires Off Friday Circuit, 15-Meter Speed Wars

While in Las Vegas earlier in the month, SwimSwam got the chance to visit UNLV and film a Friday PM practice. They started things with dryland, where they had a dynamic circuit involving stations indoors and outdoors.

Once they got in the pool and warmed up, it was more of the same as they went through a 6-station circuit:

  • Camera Work
    • 2x
      • 50 @ :50, snorkel, “fake breath”
      • 50 @ :50, fins, body-roll kick
      • 50 @ :50 from middle, breath every other + WATCH @ 2:00
  • Chutes
    • 6×50 on 1:05 with Chute
      • 2 @ goal time +2, clean, low stroke count
      • 2 @ goal time +1, hold stroke count
      • 2 @ goal time, ok to add 1 stroke
    • 1×75 @ 200 Pace OR 1×50 @ back-end 100 pace (no chute)
  • Tempo Trainer
    • 14×25 @ :30/:40
      • Drop 2 clicks every 2 25s
  • Flutter w/ Sox
    • 12x Lengths (Bulkhead-to-bulkhead)
      • 4x sox at feet (3 @ :30, 1 @ 1:00)
      • 4x sox at knees (3 @ :25, 1 @ 1:00)
      • 4x sox at thighs (3 @ :20, 1 @ 1:00)
  • Altered Course (15m)
    • Down Group – 4×45 @ 2:00 OTB – Beat your best 50
    • Up Group – 4×90 @ 2:00 (from a push) 400 IM/500 Fr Effort, 1×45 OTB MAX
  • Fins
    • 6x
      • 1 length Underwater @ :20
      • :10 FAST vertical kick (20 kicks), :10 rest
      • 1 length underwater MAX velocity @ :30

Everyone finished the practice with Speed Wars, essentially a King or Queen of the Hill, broken up by stroke, in the 15-meter pool.

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John Hueth
1 year ago

Sometimes all I swim about is you, late nights in the middle of the pool, heat waves been swimming me out, can’t make butterfly happy or not!
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