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Weekly Workouts for North Carolina Masters Swimmers
This weeks Workout	Introduction	Previous Week's Workouts	Training Cycles
by Kerry O'Brien, Head Coach, Walnut Creek Masters (California)

 

GLOSSARY of TERMS Here is a glossary of terms that will show up in the set explainations: S - swim P - pull K - kick INTERVAL - refers to the time it takes to swim the distance and rest until the next send off F.P.S.O. - fastest possible send off (your fastest interval that you can maintain for the set) +5 AND +10 - are 5 and 10 second adjustments to your send off intervals DESCENDING - refers to getting faster within a set of swims BUILD-UP - refers to starting easy and getting faster within an individual swim PACE - refers to maintaining a predetermined speed that usually has some reference to a race or goal time TIME FINISHES - timing strokes so that you hit the wall with a complete stroke, not a 1/2 stroke or have to kick and glide in LAP - the distance of one length of the pool HYPOXIC - refers to limiting your breathing within safe amounts BOARDWAG - pulling with the kick board between your legs like a buoy. Hold the board so that a good portion of it will create resistance beneath you as you rotate your shoulders/hips. BREAKOUT - Transitioning speed from underwater to the surface by using the first stroke to actually swim to the surface. We should never break to the surface kicking in a streamlined position.

Updated: December 26, 2001
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