Practice + Pancakes: Durden Leads Cal Men Through Friday PM 15m Power Efforts
After the weight room, the Cal men hop in the pool and race. This Friday, Durden gave them 15m efforts, either all underwater or all on top of the water.
Practice + Pancakes: UNLV Fires Off Friday Circuit, 15-Meter Speed Wars
Everyone finished the practice with Speed Wars, essentially a King or Queen of the Hill, broken up by stroke, in the 15-meter pool.
Practice + Pancakes: Sandpipers Elite Group “Sprints” 7300 IM/Fly Workout
I don’t think Ron would agree, but according to the athletes, this 7,300-yard workout was their “sprint” practice for the week.
Practice + Pancakes: UVA Mathematician Ken Ono Brings His Analytics to Swimming
Ken has gone through this process at Emory and now at UVA, not only aiding numerous athletes but also being assisted by them, including Olympian Paige Madden
Practice + Pancakes: An Inside Look at SPIRE Academy
SwimSwam got the opportunity to visit SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio to film one of their workouts as well as a very special summer camp
Practice + Pancakes: Louise Hansson Suits Up for the ‘Hunter Armstrong’ Set
The set is 3 rounds of a 25 off the blocks, followed by 2×50 at back-end 100 speed. Louise does them on a descending interval (R1 – 90, R2 – 75, R3 – 60)
Practice + Pancakes: Hansson, Auboeck Highlight Loughborough University Workout
SwimSwam traveled across the pond to England, where we did some filming at the renowned Loughborough University and its “Pool of Dreams”
Practice + Pancakes: New York City’s Asphalt Green Gets in Saturday AM IM Work
In order to accommodate every swimmer on their team, the top group at Asphalt Green trains Saturday-Thursday, with Fridays off.
Practice + Pancakes: 12x Olympic Medalist & SPIRE Ambassador Ryan Lochte
SPIRE Academy Swim Camp featured SPIRE Ambassador Ryan Lochte and SPIRE Head Coach Thad Schultz providing instructions across all four strokes.
Practice + Pancakes: Eddie Reese Gives Texas Men “Numbers” Set for Trials Taper
On this Wednesday, the taper workout was simple: Eddie gave you a number, and you got to that number. For most of the guys, it was somewhere between 3k-4k.
Practice + Pancakes: Seward Tsunami Swim Team, featuring Oly Champ Lydia Jacoby
This certainly wasn’t your run-of-the-mill Practice + Pancakes, but then again Alaska isn’t your run-of-the-mill swimming destination.
Practice + Pancakes: Ledecky + Finke Go Head-to-Head in 15×100 Best Average
2021 1500 Olympic Champions Bobby Finke and Katie Ledecky went head-to-head during a threshold practice which concluded with 15×100 best average
Practice + Pancakes: Florida Pro Group Workout with Dressel, Ledecky & Hinds
The group started on the racks with some light power work in the outdoor pool, then transitioned to the indoor pool, where they did work with chords
Practice + Pancakes: Madden, Weyant Throw Down Monster UVA Threshold Workout
On Tuesday afternoons, associate head coaches Blaire Bachman and Tyler Fenwick combine their groups and gut out a ‘red’ set
Practice + Pancakes: Thomas Heilman Dazzles in Cavalier Aquatics Speed Practice
Cav Aquatics had a fun warm up full of drills and speed work before getting into some 100 pace, where Heilman threw down some sizzling butterfly times
