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Daily Training Programs

mywaterworl.life is expanding its offering – this time by making a daily training program available on line.

You don’t need to be a subscriber to this site but we would like you to be. That way you can guarantee that you recieve a notification each time we post something new.

This is a sample program , the first one mywaterworld.life has published on its NEW training programs page.

The programs are part of an integrated season training plan which mywaterworld.life can tailor to your racing season.

The 2023 focus of the training plan is the 2022* FINA World Masters Swimming Championships, starting on the Japanese island of Kyushu on 2 August 2023.

* And if you are curious why the chahmpionshisp being held in 2023 are called the 2022 championships it is beacuse that is what FINA, soon to be called World Aquatics, calls them.

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Reaction Times and More on Pacing

How important and significant are reaction times?

Today we take a dive into the outcome of the Mens 4 x 50m freestyle relay at the World Aquatics Short Course Championships.

The margin between the 1st and 2nd placings was only 0.04 seconds – tighter margins are feasible, but not by much. Australia won this relay, not because it swam faster in the water, it didn’t, but because team members had better reaction times, by 0.09 seconds in total, than those of the Italians – and that was enough for the win.

Check out our story on the importance of reaction times and pacing in 400s.

FINA SC Champs 2022 Melb – Part 2Download
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Starts, Turns and Pacing

World Aquatics Championships provide a great opportunity to have a look at the difference in skills, and therefore the effectivness of the execution of race plans.

mywaterworld.life has put together this quick analysis of the Women’s 400 and Men’s 1500m freestyle events and the 4 x 100 freestyle relays.

FINA SC Champs 2022 MelbDownload

In none of the events were the diffences in reaction times and skills off the turns significant enough to affect the results in any meaningful ways.

The events featured are all longer events, or relays, but when you get down to the shorter ones (50s and 100s) , and especially as this is short coure racing, hundreths of a second make the diffrence between a podium finish and not even making a final. This equally applies in relays as there are multipel changeovers and corresponding reaction time. It is so important to make evey push-off and turn in training a skill development pririoty. And as for the starts and turns, try some box jumps and burpees.

Pacing for the distance events is critical so have a look at the tables and see how consistent the pacing needs to be – train that pacing.