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Swimming Set of the Week - May 15, 2009

Posted by Barbara Hummel on May 15, 2009 09:11AM (3,946 views)

This week's set of the week helps you work on many elements of breaststroke: breath control, narrow kick, body undulation, and high elbows during the pull.

4 X 100 with fins on approx. :15 RI
Each 100 alternates 25 body-dolphin breaststroke under water (breathe when necessary; focus on wide outsweep and high elbows on the insweep)/ 25 body-dolphin breaststroke on the surface

4 X 100 without fins on approx. :20 RI
Each 100 alternates 25 breaststroke kick under water (breathe when necessary; focus on tight streamline and narrow kick)/ 25 breaststroke kick on your back

3 X 100 with fins on approx. :15 RI
Same as previous 4 X 100 with fins except that last 25 of each 100 is backstroke

3 X 100 without fins on approx. :20 RI
Same as previous 4 X 100 without fins except that last 25 of each 100 is freestyle

2 X 100 with fins on approx. :15 RI
Same as previous 4 X 100 with fins

2 X 100 without fins on approx. :20 RI
Same as previous 4 X 100 without fins

1 X 100 with fins on approx. :15 RI
Body-dolphin breaststroke with double underwater pullouts on first 3 pushoffs; normal pullout on final wall.

1 X 100 without fins
Double underwater pullouts on first 3 pushoffs; normal pullout on final wall.

breaststroke, breathing, underwater pull, breath control

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Juliette	Responded May 15, 2009 05:41PM do you have any mercy??????....hahaha....thank again says my dad!!!!
IMer4life	Responded May 16, 2009 02:37AM Hey folks, This is just a suggestion. Since we are all swimming coaches and swimmers and other folks involved in swimming, that means we are generally smarter than the average person out there wandering around a pool deck. So how about a little advanced grammer in the responses and posts? Honestly, some of these I have read I have NO IDEA what you are trying to say. Nothing fancy people, just plain English and a punctuation check. Spell check is a viable and useful tool. Nothing to be ashamed of using. I really hate the decimation of our language by these "lol" " ttyl" and other abbreviations. Writing coherently is a skill. If the other person has no idea what you are trying to say, then really, you are wasting your time, mine, and theirs. Use what you spent all those years in high school learning English. That is all.
Juliette	Responded May 16, 2009 06:49AM sorry
Barbara Hummel	Responded May 16, 2009 10:16AM IMer4life, I hear you. I've been an editor for 35 years. Glenn will tell you what a pain I can be about grammar and punctuation. But on this forum, I welcome any comments that our readers want to make and I don't care how weak the grammar may be or how shaky the English. We have swimmers on this site from 80+ countries. Juliette, for example, is from the Netherlands and I believe she is 8 or 9 years old. I love her spontaneity and hope she continues to post. We want EVERYONE to feel at ease here, and we want to encourage dialogue from every swimmer from every corner of the globe. If we were to demand coherent English and spell-checked entries, people might feel intimidated and would not comment or, worse, would go away all together. So, imho, bring it on. We value all our readers and want to hear from you.
Juliette	Responded May 16, 2009 11:10AM I also hear the comment,...and it is so true....a joke must be made but always try to watch the grammar a bit....when Juliette post's something be shure that I(her dad) always go over it....Uh...that's said over what she writes....hahahaha....of course , a mistake can and must be missed now and then. BUT...Let's be as smart as IMer4life says we are and take double learning from this site.....well swim harder and practice our grammar....so this is 2 times the best site!!!!!!....regards,, El Papa de Juliette Diaz Diaz
juan	Responded May 17, 2009 01:59AM Estos ejercicios estan para revivir muertos huf¡
isobel	Responded May 17, 2009 02:37AM I think Juan is saying "This set is for reviving the dead [once they've done it]. Ow!"
Cesar	Responded May 17, 2009 07:42PM Good traslation, isobel ; )
Cesar	Responded May 17, 2009 07:50PM Juan, a veces, para sobrevivir hago sólo la mitad. Juan, sometimes, to survive I do only half.
davide	Responded May 18, 2009 01:24PM I'll try this schema. Unfortunately in the pool the use of fins and paddles is often forbidden. ( when the pool is crowded..) So i can try this training only in sat morning session. I know that sometimes i make a mistakes in writing because i'm not english but i hope everybody understand my posts. Thanks.
Jacquie	Responded May 26, 2009 02:32AM Hi Barbara, Is this set based on the assumption that the swimmers will be using Breaststroke fins? Sadly, we don't currently have our swimmers purchasing/using breaststroke fins, do you have any suggestions for a variation?
Barbara Hummel	Responded May 26, 2009 03:01PM No, this is meant to be regular fins, not breaststroke fins. Just do dolphin kick rather than breaststroke kick. Have fun!

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