TritonWear Set Of The Week: 200 IM Set

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This week’s TritonWear Set of The Week focuses on the 200 IM in a unique way: using 175s. Here is the set:

4 x 175 IM @ 2:40 (hit best 200 IM time)

1 x 200 free breathing pattern 3 @ 2:50

3 x 175 IM @ 2:50 (hit best 200 IM time minus 3 seconds)

1 x 200 free breathing pattern 3 @ 2:50

2 x 175 IM @ 3:00 (hit best 200 IM time minus 5 seconds)

1 x 200 free breathing pattern 3 @ 2:50

1 x 200 IM Off the Block

1 x 200 recovery

The set comes equipped with goal times for the 175s. On the first set of four 175s, the swimmers need to go their fastest 200 IM time. This shouldn’t be too much of a challenge since they are swimming one less lap. The first four 175s can be achieved at a more controlled speed. To hit these goal times, the time intervals aren’t terribly fast. The swimmers should get a solid amount of rest on it.

In between sets of 175s are relaxed 200 frees with a three-stroke breathing pattern. These are designed to be a recovery while also working on proper freestyle breathing.

On the three 175s, the goal is to shoot for three seconds under their 200 IM time. This will get slightly harder, but the rest also increases. Nonetheless, the effort will need to increase. The same goes for the two 175s, where the goal is five seconds under their 200 IM time. Similarly, the rest increases here, and the swimmers should be working for that goal time.

At the end of the set, top it off with a 200 IM off the block for time and see how close they can get to their actual 200 IM time. For experienced swimmers and IMers, hitting these goal times will be somewhat difficult, mainly because it gets tougher to push off near best times in practice as you get older. The under-three and under-five second goal times, however, are certainly attainable for senior level swimmers. Age groupers, on the other hand, should have their goal times set at five and seven seconds under their 200 IM time with slower sendoffs.

Give the set a try, and good luck chasing those goal times!

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TritonWear creates superior athletes by making more effective and efficient coaches. They do this with their unique wearable technology which provides real-time performance data from each athlete in practice as well as long term tracking of each athlete over time.

The Triton is a small device that hooks onto the back of a swimmer’s goggle strap that automatically calculates over a dozen performance metrics like splits, stroke count, stroke rate, DPS, turn time, time underwater, and more.

Find out more about the Triton here: http://www.tritonwear.com/product/metrics/

All of this data is sent in real time to a coaches tablet for every athlete in the pool. This allows coaches to spend ALL of their time coaching and focusing on technique instead of rapidly grabbing splits and stroke rates while giving peace of mind that the data will be there when they need it.

Check out the TritonWear app in action here: http://www.tritonwear.com/product/feedback/?video

Once the workout is over, each swimmer’s workout data is automatically uploaded to each swimmer’s respective profile to allow for long term tracking over the season. This allows both coaches and swimmers to make sure they stay on track towards their seasonal and longer term goals. With a few clicks of your mouse, easily compare your performance on test sets over the year and find weaknesses in your stroke. Track your improvement on these weaknesses and see how that results in FASTER SWIMMING!

Check out how to track your performance over time here: http://www.tritonwear.com/product/tracking/?video

More About TritonWear

TritonWear is making technology that enables better coaching – which creates superior athletes.

Mike Finch, the head coach of W. Ross McDonald Swimming in Brandford, Canada – a head coach in Canada for 18 years building this team from the ground up in the last 8 years resulting in 8 national level athletes – has been using the TritonWear technology for the last 4 months with his team.

When Finch was asked if the benefits of TritonWear directly translates to faster swimming, he quickly stated “Without question. If you improve DPS (stroke efficiency), velocity into and out off the walls, breathing patterns, etc, how could you not see that translate to improved performance?”

TritonWear’s unique technology captures 15 key performance metrics from each swimmer and sends the data in real-time to the coach’s tablet. This is done via a small unit that hooks onto the back of a swimmer’s goggle strap and calculates metrics such as splits, DPS, stroke rate, turn time, breath count, and time underwater. The coach can see this data in real-time and analyze the changes over time.

The TritonWear system has been designed to be easy to use and not to add any work to the coach’s busy schedule. If a system takes too long to set up it will just end up in the closet after a coach struggles enough. With the TritonWear system, the coach simply turns on a device and pairs it with a swimmer in their list and that’s the only interaction required for the entire workout – TritonWear does the rest.

World renowned swimming coach Bill Sweetenham has always said ‘Measure everything that can be measured’, “but that was never practical. Now it is.

Now we have something that allows anyone to be able to track everything you possibly could” states Mike referring to the TritonWear system.

During practice, each Triton unit calculates over a dozen performance metrics from each athlete. Not only that, the units automatically build out each swimmers workout with zero input from the coach. This is especially helpful for teams like Mike’s utilizing USRPT methods where “with 20 swimmers in the water we will sometimes have 20 different workouts going on so the fact that the system can track exactly what they are swimming and automatically build out each workout is perfect for this type of training.”

Mike is taking on a “Moneyball” approach with the TritonWear technology where he “isolates key variables of a swim (such as turn time, splits, time and distance underwater, etc.) and by focusing on them, you can get a lot further a lot faster.”

“At a training camp a few years ago we had a few test sets where we would have 3 coaches collecting data for 6 kids – there is no way that can be duplicated in practice at home. Now with what you’re doing, we can get better data with one or two coaches covering the practice ” When you look at the costs of having multiple coaches strictly for data collection, this system is orders of magnitudes less expensive in comparison. The TritonWear system is very affordable with multiple payment options available.

Progression tracking over time becomes simple now that all of a swimmers workout data is automatically logged in one location. For example, frequently run test sets can easily be overlaid on the same plot to provide powerful visual feedback of how a swimmer is improving (or not improving) each time that set is run. This gives the coach a large tool kit at their disposal to provide high quality feedback to each athlete to help them stay on top of their goals. Each swimmer has their own profile so they can log in to view their data and gain a better understanding and appreciation for how each metric affects their speed within their sets.

“Swimming can’t get much better just by training harder. Training smarter and making practices more perfect [is what is important] and what you [TritonWear] are doing fits perfectly into that” stated Finch. “What you’re [TritonWear] doing has the potential to make a huge performance difference .”

Find out more at www.tritonwear.com.

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Amy Micallef

8 years ago

Andy Colbourn Matthew Galea Raoul Stafrace Julian Harding

Nino Sieling

8 years ago

Kevin Eltink Jeroen Dellebeke ook leuk

Coach

8 years ago

Very cool! I’d like one for Christmas ( hint, hint Jennfer Lamb).