Post your swim workout

[eclectic]

thanks for posting Crazy canuck - let us know how the open water goes on Sat!
(we have no open water here to swim in, but we can drive on it

I hear you on trying to remember them I swim in the AM and can't remember it from the pool to my classroom - all of 15 minutes
My swim time is from 6 am to 7am as I have to be at work by 7:30 but I am always late so it is generally 50 - 55 min worth.
I am fighting a cold so I wore a snorkel today but I still swam slower than usual and didn't finish everthing, only got about 1900 done.

12-11-08

300 swim - last 50 build
100 kick free
200 swim - last 50 build
100 kick breast
200 swim - last 50 build
100 kick back

4 x (switch strokes each set IM order)
Didn’t do - just did all free and only got 3 sets done
3x100
100 swim
4 x 25 on :30 or 35 (enough recovery to keep form good)
100 recovery swim

cool down

[Over50Newbie]

Colby,

Swimming from 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM is great except that I am all wound up when I get home. My metabolism is all revved up and I'm not at all tired. I get home around 10:15 PM and finally go to bed around 11:30, but don't fall asleep right away. It probably takes me almost an hour to finally fall asleep.

Then when my alarm goes off at 5:30 AM, I am exhausted.

But, you know what? It is worth it so that I can get in 90 minutes of swimming every week.

I love swimming!!

Lynette

[eclectic]

Hello all

I am so glad everyone is posting their workouts ! Thanks so much. My coach is going to be gone from December 25 until Jan 13 (She will be one of the coaches for the USA Junior National team at the Pan Pacifics in Guam - I am sure I already told everyone that but I am sooooo pumped for her!

Anyway I will be on my own and back at the Y pool so my morning schedule will be very restricted and I don't have time in the evening w/ running and biking to fit in. waaa waaa waaaa
BUT I will be able to try some of these workouts that is the upside as long as I can motivate myself to do them.

Here was today's swim - it doesn't cover a lot of distance because the drills took a lot longer than just straight swimming but it was a very good session to up the stroke quality.

The underwater pull (human drill) is the one where you do a normal crawl stroke but your arms never leave the water. You breath about every 4 or six strokes and then just breath like you normally would. It is like a long extended dog paddle w/ body rotation - I had never done it before today - it was kind of fun.

12-17-08

500 swim

5x 100
25 underwater pull (human drill)
25 popov
25 kick w/ 4 strokes per 25
25 swim choice

3x 300
1 75 strong
25 kick back

2 75 strong
25 kick side

3 50 strong
50 kick front

cool down

[eclectic]

Here is today's - I once again was 10 min late, then talked to my coach for 5 min (her mom isn' t doing well) so only got 45 min in. And I was lazy on the first 900 and dilly dallyed around so I only got to the first set of 25's.
I am kicking myself because had i been on time I could have easily finished.

12-18-08

300 swim

2x150 50 kick 100 swim

2x 300 by 100’s
1 50 ez 50 hard
2 middle hard
3 50 hard 50 ez

200 breathe as little as possible on first 25’s (hypoxia)
150 3 count, 4 count, 5 count x 50’s
100 7 count on first 25

20 x25’s on :30 :35 :40
1-3 desc
4 choice
Repeat

cool down 150

ttl 2300

[eclectic]

Today's workout was a very nice recovery one after a prior day of running. It wasn' t long and wasn't hard - I liked it
Pretty pathetic though my whip kick for breast and dolphin kick are faster than my freestyle kick. Good thing you don' t have to kick a lot when wearing a wetsuit for a tri.
On the fly portion my coach said do however many strokes of fly you can do then finish out free. I did 25 fly, 25 free, 25 fly, 25 free because I was lazy and didn't want to push, I will try to do 3/4 lap rather than just 1/2 fly next time . . . maybe . . . I can do a decent 50 if I want to - I didn't want to.

12-19-08

500 reverse IM order +100 free
(100 free, 100 breast, 100 back, 100 fly, 100 free)

400 IM kick

300 IM drill x 75’s

200 choice

100 scull

swam 250 to finish mile