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From the Vault: Forward Roll Jump-Twist
Chris Sinagoga | Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 5:22PM Any time we do a holding your breath workout you can bet we are trying to modify for a swimming workout that comes up on the main site. Here's the most recent one that we used for today's team workout.
5 rounds for time of:
Swim 50 meters
25 push-ups
We made the adjustment of giving athletes two breaths instead of one. Also, we added a forward roll jump-twist every time there was a transition. Despite what you may believe, those weren't a random addition; they're a skill-transfer for something in swimming races called a flip turn.
Back when I was coaching Amy Potter's one-on-one sessions in Fall 2013, one of her major weaknesses in the pool was getting power off the flip turn. So we called up Carl Paoli and he helped us figure out how to replicate that in the gym. This came in the form of a forward roll jump twist. Here's Amy doing them between sets of a max effort.
The candlestick roll some of you did was a modification if the forward roll was not happening. Either way, you guys did well with this new movement thrown at you out of the blue.
