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Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is a distance based aerobic freestyle and kick set. Great for high school swimmers and above, this set emphasizes consistent paced swims and descending kicks to get the legs moving. Take a look at the set below: 5 x 300 swim on :30 SR 8 x....

Consider This Training Set: Developing 200 Fly Pace (From the Archive) We turn to the Swimming World vault for a look at a training set that may be utilzied. This set is a 200 fly endurance set that builds to 200 pace. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 4 x 75’s as 50 fly...

Swim Training: This Demanding IM Set Will Provide a Test Sometimes, there's nothing better than a stout, long IM set on a Saturday morning. This training set offers one large set split into four "mini sets" that can really challenge tough IMers. It combines elements from 400 IMs and 200 IMs to hard ...

Swimming World Training Set: A 200 Freestyle-Focused Set This week's Training Set Of The Week features a three round 200 free set that includes fast 100 and 200 repeats and a broken 200. Take a look: 3 Times Through 300 free setup   3:45/4:00/4:15 3 x 100 free        1:05/1:10/1:15 :30 rest 200 free...

Butterfly workouts have a tendency to scare age groupers because, well, it's butterfly. Perhaps the perfect way to quell their worries is under the veil of 25s. This week's swim training set works varying distances of butterfly mixed with fast freestyle. There's a variety of ways to do this set, but...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a backstroke endurance set that mixes in some kicking to really tax the legs: 3 Rounds: 2 x 250 backstroke (#1- 50 k/50 sw, #2- 50 sw/50 k) on 3:15 300 backstroke negative split on 2:40 4 x 125 (50 k...

Training Sets and Tips: Building Breaststroke Endurance As Swimming World continues to bring a variety of training sets to its readership, a focus is placed on this archived piece on the breaststroke. This breaststroke endurance set is designed to work on driving forward in the stroke and finishing ...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week! This week’s set is a short secondary set to work on speed through your breakouts. Take a look at the set and the description below. 4 x (5 x 50 on :50) #1: 1 fast cycle off each wall #2: 2 fast cycles off each wall #3: 3 fast cycles off each wall #4: ...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is an middle distance based aerobic set with a little bit of pace work mixed in. Take a look at the set and it’s description below: 4 Rounds: 2 x 200’s hold time on #2 on 2:30 3 x 50’s dec 1-3, number 3 is 200 pace on 1:00 1 x 50 easy o...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set is an aerobic backstroke set that focuses on pacing and underwater details. Take a look at the set below and the explanation that follows: 5 x 100 backstroke on 1:30 4 x 50 kick/drill on 1:00 4 x 100 backstroke on 1:30 4 x 50 kick/drill...

This is the first edition of Swimming World’s Swim Training Set of the Week features a demanding distance free ladder set. The beauty of this set is that it offers coaches flexibility with the primary focus. The workout can be done as a 500 or 1650 pace set (or both). It’s a grueling, fast-paced cha...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a butterfly pace set that can work as you transition back into long course training. 3 Rounds: 4 x 50 fly (odd: drill, even: fast kick) on :50 300 as 50 free/50 smooth fly on 4:30 3 x 100 as 50 free,...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set Of The Week! This week’s set has two examples of broken swims for middle distance swimmers that emphasize developing a strong finish to your race. Take a look at the set and the description that follows: Broken 500 175 + 100 + 100 + 50 + 50 + 25 Rest = :20 for 175,...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a short secondary pull set with paddles. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 2 Rounds: 2 x 50’s pull w/ paddles on :45 as: #1 - fast #2 - easy 1 x 150 pull w/ paddles fast...

Swimming World Training Set: Aerobic IM Progression From Swimming World's vault, this training set is an aerobic IM progression set. Running through 200s of each stroke and 200 IMs, this set challenges swimmers to control their pace moving through each stroke while also pushing them aerobically. Tak...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a sprint set designed for the long course pool. The set features three rounds, each of which totals 1,000 meters. By the end of the set swimmers should be going all-out, with each of the final 6 x 50’s ...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set build ups to 200 pace work for breaststroke.   2 Rounds:     2 x 100 (scull/k/dr/sw), option for snorkel     200 breast (odd length: double pull outs, even: dps)     5 x 50 (odd: desc 1-3 to pace, even: dr...

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Training Set: IM Or Main Stroke Endurance Periodically, Swimming World will bring its readers a training set they can try to incorporate in their pool work. This set is designed to help develop endurance for your prime stroke and IM athletes: 2 Rounds: 2 x 225’s as 50 stroke/25 free on 3:10 4 x 12.....

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by CommitSwimming.com! This week’s set is a warm-up for your sprinters to work on waking them up and getting them tuned into their body position, sprint stroke, and tempo. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 300 as 50 f...