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Coaching Water Polo Core Individual Skills Swimming |
Water Polo players have to be good, strong swimmers (sooner or later). The following list of sets will help people get there!
| Sprint Pyramids | A pyramid is where you start small, build up
and then down, for example 25m - 50m - 75m - 100m - 75m - 50m - 25m = 400m A set would be 400m warm up Freestyle Pyramid - Butterfly Pyramid (every second distance - freestyle until can do the whole lot one stroke) - Backstroke Pyramid - Breastroke Pyramid - Freestyle Pyramid - 400m freestyle warm down |
| Distance Pyramid | All freestyle - 400m, 300m, 200m. 100m, 50m, 50m, 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m |
| Medley Builds | 400m freestyle warm up 8x50m freestyle on 1min 8x50 medley on 1min - first third of each 50 medley stroke 8X50 medley on 1min - two thirds of each 50 medley stroke 8x50 medley on 1min - whole 50 medley 400m freestyle warm down |