Boston Performance Coaching

Pace was the name of the game this morning at our swim workout.  So far the base period swim classes have been focused mainly on technique, about 95% drill work and 5% pace/effort work.  This has been good for the BPC athletes, as no one likes to do drills for an hour, no one likes to focus on their weakness, ESPECIALLY in the pool.  However, as we are nearing the end of our base period, today I wanted to give the athletes a little taste of the type of workouts we will be doing in the winter, as well as get them to really work with the pace clock.  So the basic premise of the main set was a bunch of different 50yd efforts on 20sec rest.  This was after about 1500yds of technique work, so they had to focus on incorporating technique along with their speed.  What is really interesting is that athletes will work on technique and then usually it all falls apart when you ask them to do speedwork.  However, I was really pleased and surprised with the result of todays workout- most, if not all, the athletes were able to do their flip turns as well as maintain consistent form with their intervals.