practice + pancakes

Practice + Pancakes: Lone Star Aquatics Take Stability Training to a New Level

Lone Star’s dryland work really stood out to me, and to kick things off, they typically warm up using Indo boards. They do a variety of exercises on them

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Practice + Pancakes: The 2020 Eddie Reese Invite

the Eddie Reese Invite is an infamous event for the Texas men’s swimming team where the men suit up during a practice and race odd distances off the blocks

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Practice + Pancakes: New Mexico Women at That Holiday Workout We’ve All Been To

For the holidays I went to visit my brother in Albuquerque. Wyatt trains with the UNM women’s team 3 days a week, and so I paid the Lobos a visit. 

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Practice + Pancakes: Virginia Women Conquer Power + Speed

We stopped by University of Virginia, where a group of their women’s team were throwing down some serious speed. This is the entirety of that workout

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Practice + Pancakes: Queens University Works Through “Recovery” Day

Queens has become known for producing talent that would challenge for DI national titles, so I was excited to see the kind of work they do for myself.

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Practice + Pancakes: TAC Titans Tackle Threshold/Pace Combo

The TAC Titans house talents such as Jr National Teamer Claire Curzan, National Teamer Charlotte Hook, and 2020 Olympian Ashley Twichell

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Practice + Pancakes: NC State Sprinters Suit Up, Mid Group Goes for Power

You’ve seen what some of the NC State postgrads were doing on the Tuesday we were there: now see what the undergrads were up to.

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Practice + Pancakes: North Carolina Prepares for Georgia Tech Invite

The Tarheels were just beginning their preparation for the Georgia Tech Invite (which kicks off on Friday) on this Monday when we arrived.

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Practice + Pancakes: Virginia Tech Suits Up for 8×100 Off the Blocks

The hokies were coming off of a tri-meet with Queens and Pitt Friday afternoon, but head coach Sergio Lopez wasn’t letting the racing stop there

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Practice + Pancakes: Columbia Swim Club goes OTB in Suits

They went 5 rounds of 4×100, with the first 2 100’s a mix of fast/easy, the 3rd 100 all fast kick, then they do 5 push ups and go a fast 100 off the blocks.

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Practice + Pancakes: Louisville Throws Down on VO-Tuesday

After going to practice with Indiana, SwimSwam drove down the road to Louisville, where we filmed the cardinals Tuesday PM workout.

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Practice + Pancakes: New Coaches on Full Display at IU PM Workout

There were 3 main groups on this Monday afternoon: Ray Looze’s breaststroke group, Cory Chitwood’s mid group, and Jonty Skinner’s sprinters.

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Practice + Pancakes: Joao de Lucca Coaches Race Pace Club – Kentucky

In Louisville, Holden Smith trains as a member of the Race Pace Club. A junior in high school, Holden was coached by his father, Kenny, for 3 yrs using USRPT

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Practice + Pancakes: Mizzou Swims 10×100 @ 1:30… But Think They’re Doing 30

Today was a test set for the tigers, and one they had done a couple weeks earlier: 30×100 @ 1:30, broken into 3 sets of 10 with breaks in between sets.

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Practice + Pancakes: Watch Both Single Gendered Practices at Mizzou

SwimSwam took a visit to Columbia, Missouri, where the all new staff at the University of Missouri looks to be making some significant changes.

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