We started the 5th annual Magnolia Masters Pro Camp on Monday January 6 and will run the camp until January 17th. I’ll be updating what we are doing and why with a daily blog post. I am happy to answer any questions on the training we are doing. We’ve got a great group that came in this year and the first few days have been solid.
You can find the blog posts here.
I look forward to your questions.
Tim
So for instance, Tuesday’s set of 20x25 @ hold pace with your athletes going 13-16s. What is hold pace? Is this on an interval, on the 30???
Hi Tim, can you post some of the workouts you all are doing and then we can go do our own versions and virtually participate and report back on this thread. That may be fun!
I think you are looking at last years post from the camp. I haven’t put up Tuesday yet. I’ll get Tuesday up tomorrow. But “hold pace” is a pace I give an athlete to hold for the set and then the interval is usually about 20 seconds more than the “hold pace.” It’s fairly standard construction for a USRPT style set.
Paul,
I’m posting all the workouts we are doing on the blog post, but I wouldn’t recommend any one doing them by yourself and certainly not without a coach on the deck. If I was writing a workout for someone swimming alone without a coach on the deck, these workouts would look a lot different.
But I would be happy to talk about the how and why of the modification.
Tim
I think you are looking at last years post from the camp. I haven’t put up Tuesday yet. I’ll get Tuesday up tomorrow. But “hold pace” is a pace I give an athlete to hold for the set and then the interval is usually about 20 seconds more than the “hold pace.” It’s fairly standard construction for a USRPT style set.
Sorry yes that is correct, it must have been last years.
Yep. I’m finishing up Day 2 right now.
Day 2 is posted.
So who held the best set of 50’s in that challenge set? Or if not who, what were the times? Anyone holding 26/27’s for all? (I assume from a push?)
What a great idea and fun time for everyone too, and just to be able to focus on swimming correct, and fast!
The fastest was around 28 low to mid. Then there were 2 at around 30/31. A few were 36-ish and one was 37/38.
Yes, they were all from a push. It’s a good set at the start to see the contrast between the 1500 yards of 25s in the morning and then an exceptionally hard effort in the afternoon. I’m always curious to see the difference between the pace in the morning and the speed in the afternoon. It can be telling.
Tim
Also on that 8x50 on 3:30, did you allow easy swimming between efforts? Or was it just “stay there on the wall†so they couldn’t flush the lactate out of the muscles?
The latter gets hard pretty quick. Well, both are hard. But the latter is harder IMO.
I gave them the choice. I always found if you did the set the right way, it didn’t matter. The other thing we worked on was some changing in the breathing on the wall.
It’s been fun following along from my athlete’s POV.
She’s super excited (still) about all the changes.
I know she & I are both expecting/hoping this allows her to tuck into that group in front of her instead of leading out the people she usually does.
Lizzie has been great. Thanks for recommending her for the camp.
Tim
Day 3 and 4 are posted. Any questions, let me know.
Tim
Keep up the good work
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Thanks
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Day 5 is posted. Any questions, please let me know.
Tim
First week is posted and the conclusion of the camp. I included some links to podcast interviews with some of the athletes the were in the camp and their experience with the camp.
Any questions, let me know.