22-07-2026 12:30 via swimswam.com

A Resisted Sprint Set That Builds a Faster 100 Freestyle

By Olivier Poirier-Leroy on SwimSwam
Sprint sets in the pool are pretty simple. Take a double scoop of go-go juice, wind up the arms and legs, and unleash white water fury.
Beyond this kind of brute-force power work, one of the funner ways of training the sprinty sprint is with post-activation potentiation.
For those unfamiliar, it works like this:Load the muscles with a brief, muscular effort
The muscles become both fatigued and “primed”
Take a short break–long enough for fati
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