The Nitro Whistle Set : Speakers & Interviews



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#52
David   February 24 at 11:48pm
I love my swimmer when they said thanks for all wo that I gave at practice.
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#51
Samuli Heino   February 8 at 4:33am
Me and couple other guys from my group did this last week. It was just for fun, but in SCM it wasnt so easy. 2000 meters went pretty fast. I could say it was almost a perfect pace set.
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#50
Anonymous Coward   February 4 at 10:22pm
i did this set the other day.. and it sucked
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#49
Colin   January 25 at 7:25pm
We did this and started at 15. This is one of my favorits for trying to hold a pace all the way thru
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#48
Sarah   January 6 at 10:15pm
Wow, that's really confusing if you don't pay attention. But it sure sounds like it would take a toll after going for a while. Good challenge. That would be a good workout.
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#47
Flo-wer   December 20, 2008 at 3:29pm
So my understanding from the description of this set is that if you don't make the distance (say, 75m) in the time when the whistle blows, that you simply start the next 75m straight away from wherever you are in the pool. Is that right? So the next interval may in fact be 85m, but with a 5s increase in time to complete?
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#46
Dawn   November 12, 2008 at 3:50pm
we did this set awhile for my high school swim team. i really enjoyed the challenge.
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#45
Conor Yarbrough   November 2, 2008 at 4:40pm
Good job guys

too bad i wasn't there
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#44
Marcin   October 23, 2008 at 3:51pm
20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 1'10, 1'15, 1'20, 1'25, 1'30. 1'35, 1'40. 1'45,
1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6
1'50, 1'55, 2'00
6 6 6

77 lengths of 25m pool gives me 1825m how much is it in yards??
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#43
Distance   October 9, 2008 at 9:35pm
scy
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#42
Dave Dorak   October 9, 2008 at 8:54pm
Dave Anderson had this set years ago
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#41
John-Brian Hansbury   October 8, 2008 at 10:07am
great set.....kids will be annoyed but .....they will love the challenge
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#40
Drew   October 6, 2008 at 9:59am
meters or scy?
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#39
Paul Hulseman   October 6, 2008 at 8:18am
This was a great workout - we used it this morning with an old fart's group and it was very well received by most of the swimmers. Keeping track of the intervals was challenging, but we are easily challenged!

Thanks!
Paul Hulseman
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#38
Lauren   October 3, 2008 at 5:50pm
good job guys
definantely a good set
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#37
Straightupchampion   October 2, 2008 at 11:15pm
forget phelps, forget cielo, forget hackett
im the best

50 free scy unshaved: 17.88
100 free scy unshaved 39.40
200 im scy unshaved 1:33.19
500 free scy unshaved 3:50.56
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#36
Christine Rosebaugh   October 2, 2008 at 9:25pm
Breaststroke... fuuuun.

The first time I ever did this set I did it breast and went out way too hard going for faster intervals and ended up doing like a 1,500 straight breaststroke. Be smart! It sucks trying to catch the interval.
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#35
Maliah Grim   October 2, 2008 at 3:22pm
our coach made us do this set yesterday and it was sort of fun only that our pool is like 88 degrees and it was extreamly hot. and in the set i got up to a 150 on 1:50, 1:55, and 2:00. I would like to do it again but in breaststroke.
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#34
Aimee   October 2, 2008 at 2:29pm
Ya'll look awesome.
Good Job.
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#33
Kelly Bolton   October 2, 2008 at 2:17pm
i love this set.
it's definetly in my top 5.
nirto ownage...
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#32
Adam Depmore   October 2, 2008 at 1:47pm
Nice facility too!
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#31
Adam Depmore   October 2, 2008 at 1:46pm
It's on!!!! Good job motivating the swimmers. You guys sure know how to make it tough in STX.
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#30
Shelley   October 2, 2008 at 1:40pm
Go Nitro!
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#29
G-Tard   October 2, 2008 at 10:11am
Ha! This is awesome Tim! Great job, brings back many memories...
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#28
JA   October 2, 2008 at 12:46am
This set totally kicks your you know what...But it feels great to finish at the end ahead of someone next to you!
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#27
Brittany   October 1, 2008 at 11:09pm
love this set, and I miss you guys!
noice job :)
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#26
Ty Lapinski   October 1, 2008 at 10:47pm
I think we need to work on are math some more haha
GREAT JOB NITRO!
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#25
Christine Rosebaugh   October 1, 2008 at 10:02pm
This is probably my favorite set ever, besides the bail out hundreds we do...
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#24
John Bradley   October 1, 2008 at 8:34pm
We are going to do this bad boy on Friday!
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#23
Eric Angle   October 1, 2008 at 7:16pm
I swam for Tim O'Brien over 10 years ago at Swim Atlanta (John's Creek) for a year and a half, from when I was 12 to 13 years old. He seems pretty much the same. I even remember his handwriting. He was an excellent coach. I don't think he had this set then.
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#22
Stiga   October 1, 2008 at 6:03pm
I would like to do that set it looks interesting
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#21
Daniel   October 1, 2008 at 5:26pm
Wait so was the point of the set to see how much distance they could acomplish on each pace (so do a 25 on 20, then a 50 on 25 etc)? I got kinda lost.
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#20
Megan   October 1, 2008 at 5:08pm
Always loved this set!! Great job
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#19
Annie   October 1, 2008 at 4:33pm
This looks like a really great set. It works the aerobic side of things as well as the mental side, something that can get overlooked. I am definitely going to suggest this to my coach.
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#18
Justin   October 1, 2008 at 4:12pm
I know wright other kinda took that upon himself acting all proud and what not and we ended up not even saying the wright distance wowwww.
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#17
Coach   October 1, 2008 at 2:57pm
I love this set and think it has many positives. It is even easier to coach/observe if you run your workout through Hy-tek Workout manager and your scoreboard.
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#16
Jimmy Eames   October 1, 2008 at 2:34pm
Swimming 1800yd-2000yd set = burnout. Maybe a couple 25s bobs would be more your speed?

Bye the way, congrats on the new digs Nitro.
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#15
Mrs. Coach   October 1, 2008 at 2:20pm
Love it!
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#14
William Broch   October 1, 2008 at 1:57pm
Nice challenge for some aerobi-sizing ! Unfortunately I dislike aerobic sets hahah. A real swimmer would go:
:25-50yd, ...,:35-75yd,...,:50-100yd,...,1:05-125yd,1:20-150yd,...,1:35-175yd,...,1:45-200yd,...2:00-225yd
I think you may get the point. Did I forget to mention it would all be breaststroke!? LoLoL geez

On all that it is nice to see a new team get some coverage! As some meets come up I liked what you did with KING, following them around through some meet. Seeing how a single team functions at meets is great footage as well as functionality of the swimmers/coach at practice.
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#13
Andy Newhall   October 1, 2008 at 1:42pm
and by NOVA I do mean Nitro
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#12
Andy Newhall   October 1, 2008 at 1:40pm
Wed. night is test set night with my swimmers. I think this is an awesome test set for many reasons. 1)keeps the swimmers mentally engaged with their set, by keeping track of times and distances. 2)plays swimmers off against eachother to see who can get the most distance. 3)Like any good test set, gives coaches an idea of the progress of their athletes. 4)Is flexible to meet the needs of a wide range of swimmers abilities.

I'm using this one tonight. Thanks, NOVA
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#11
Nick   October 1, 2008 at 1:37pm
ha justin couldnt speak for himself
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#10
Chris DeSantis   October 1, 2008 at 1:21pm
Creative set and I may try and rip it off.
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#9
Acslater   October 1, 2008 at 1:12pm
Actually Bc i was thinking the exact opposite because this set is only as hard as you make it. Everyone could technically do 25s the entire way through but that wouldnt do them any good. The point is to push yourself as far as you see fit, which in my opinion will not burn someone out anywhere near as easy as making them do 20x100s on 1:15.
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#8
Sarah   October 1, 2008 at 12:53pm
The entire goal of the set is to swim a much yardage as possible within each interval. On the first interval you swim as much as possible in 20 seconds. For everyone that is 25 yds. From there the intervals get longer by 5 seconds each round until you reach 2:00. Once you decide to try a new distance you can't go back down. If you miss the interval you just have to catch up. Hope that helps, though I know that it can be confusing.
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#7
Maddie Tarantolo   October 1, 2008 at 12:35pm
Jonathan-

This is how the set works:
The interval increases by 5 seconds each time. You start out at a 20 second interval, the next one being 25, then 30, and so on up to 2:00. It is the swimmer's decision as to what distance they wish to go. If someone wants to go for a 50 at the 25 second interval, then they can, but they must continue going 50s for their distances until they decide to increase the distance to 75 (so if a swimmer does not make a 50 on the 25, and misses the interval, they have to keep swimming 50s and play catch up until they have caught the interval). By 2:00 the goal is to see how far you can get (with freestylers aiming to do a 200).
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#6
Bc   October 1, 2008 at 12:27pm
I think this set is excellent-for burning swimmers straight out of the sport!
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#5
Jonathan   October 1, 2008 at 12:16pm
hi. can someone please explain the set further? im still abit clueless as to what the set is abt?
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#4
LU   October 1, 2008 at 11:18am
interesting! i think we will do this one!
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#3
Eric Scheingoltz   October 1, 2008 at 10:48am
Wow! Great set!
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Maddie Tarantolo   October 1, 2008 at 10:20am
Great job guys! I miss all of you!

Tim-It'll be interesting to see if you make me do that set all fly come Christmas training... And by interesting I mean interesting on if I survive.
See y'all at Thanksgiving! GATA and AD :-).
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#1
Joe Bott   October 1, 2008 at 8:22am
Awesome You guys rock at swimming but not so much on the math!!!!
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Tim O'Brien


The Nitro Whistle Set

October 1, 2008
21 swims. Start at :20 seconds, add:05 seconds every swim all the way up to 2:00 minutes.

The Music is by: Ray Tarantino

About Tim O'Brien 

Organization:Nitro Swimming
College:University Of Georgia
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Coach Tim is a Graduate of the University of Georgia in the Sport Business Program. He was a Senior National Qualifier, and spent five years as an Assistant to Head Coach Jack Bauerle at the University…
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