WDYDT .......What Did You Do Today
I'm making an attempt to increase the traffic on this forum. This thread is a place you can post your daily swim workout, see what others are doing and maybe glean a new drill or two.
5/29
1000 yd warm up (18min : 02)
200 yds Alternating Front Kick / Back Kick with board
200yds Side Drill (w/fins)
200 yds Touch and Go
200yds side drill (w/fins)
150yd TT
150yd cool down
3Days4Cure
Good idea. No swim today although it was scheduled, could not get to the pool and get my carpool to work.
Slo_Hand -- great workout!
Chris PRs: 27:26 5k/ 49:52 5mi/ 58:17 10k/ 2:09:24 half/ 5:13:17 Full
Post-Bipolar PRs: 38:35 5k/ 1:09:34 8k/ 1:09:39 5mi/ 1:33:03 10k/ 3:20:40 Half
2022 Goals
Back to 10k
Great idea Slo_hand. I unfortunately have not been swimming much lately. I need to "rejoin" my masters group and keep saying I'm going to.
I do plan on getting a swim in on Sunday, going to be staying at a hotel with a local gym attached that we get free access to. Supposed to be a good lap pool, so I intend to be up early and give it a good work out.
Then hopefully next week back to Master's Class! I am supposedly going to do an OWS competition the end of June and I'd better start getting ready for it if that's really going to happen.
I usually swim 3x / week M W F........
We don't have a Masters Program around here but certainly wished we did.
Beware, batbear...
All Freestyle
Warm Up: 600 yds swim concentrating on long and relaxed
Set:
6 x 75 w/ 15 second rest
200 kick/pull
6 x 25 with 5 second rest
2014 Goal -- Run 5X per week, pain-free (relatively) by end of summer.
IM WORKOUT
fly:
25 FLY + 25 Free
25 Free + 25 FLY
Back & Breast:
75 Back + 25 Breast
25 Breast + 25 Back
Free:
FREE 6 x 50 on 1:25 Kick
3 - 75 moderate 10sec. rest 25 HARD
Swim down
50 pull free
I was kaput at that point. Bad swim today. I was supposed to do about 350 more yards but just couldn't hack it. Felt sick of having water in my face (and I rested yesterday). Blah.
Nice work outs Batensmack
6/1
450 yds Warm up (8mins 05 secs)
200 front kick w board and fins
200 pull set
200 side each side with fins
100 touch and go
2 sets (6 x25 sprint w/5sec recovery) full recovery between sets
150 kick w board
250 yd col down
1850 total....50 mins
What do you do on the side? And what is a touch and go?
Nice work outs Batensmack 6/1 200 side each side with fins100 touch and go
Touch and Go
Based on the principle that the longer the vessel the easier it slips through the water.
You want to hold pull arm out in front of you keeping you vessel lengthened as long as you can. With the touch and go you do not begin your pull until your recovery arm has entered the water and you touch both hands together out in front of you. Thats not the actual timing your looking for in your regular front crawl but it helps implant the feeling of keeping you arm extended. I do'nt have the time right now but later I will try to link to some videos of these drills.
Side drill
This is a blance drill. Depending on your school of thought, again trying to minimize the surface area to the water you want to spend more time on your side vs flat in the water. Think of a barge vs a v-hull. With the side drill you extend one arm out in front, keeping your head and eyes looking straight down turn your body to a balance point that has you mostly on your side......this works best with fins.....You should have your other arm against your side with your hand to your hip. One shoulder should be out of the water. Tis drill leads to the "switch" and "Triple Switch". Teaching you how to rotate your body in the water.
A very good example of these drills can be found in the Total Immersion Method of freestyle swimming.
Videos samples are going to be your best bet. You tube is full of swimming drill examples.
200 Drills - warm up
400 Free
2 x 100 Breast
300 Free (kick)
2 x 75 Free (swim)
200 Free (pull)
2x50 Back
100 Free (swim)
2x 25 Fly
200 Swim down
2000 yds - 48 mins.
Good swim. Got a new suit.
Very nice workout Batensmack.
I'll be lucky to get any swimming in this coming week. Traveling for business.
Hotel pools generally are not very condusive to workouts.
After a 45 minute run...
150 Swim 150 Kick 150 Pull FREE 2 x 50 on :60 2 x 50 on :55 2 x 50 on :60 BREAST 100 kick 4 x 50 pull 100 Swim 2 x 50 Swim 1250 in 30 minutes. Harder than it should have been.
IronMan ;)
400 yard warm up
2x (
100 catch up drill
100 yard finger tip drag drill
500 yard pull bouy
)
400 yard warm down ( a couple laps of breast thrown in)
Tri-Kev Here are my favorite links: My "kick @ss" running club ;) Swim 2.4 miles. Ride 112 miles. Run 26.2 miles. Then brag for the rest of your life. -Commander John Collins, Ironman Triathlon creator
Husband and father of 4
This morning:
edit: I had trouble pasting this sorry.