Swimming Blog Rotation?

I will read you and use some of your workouts as I do not have a team anymore, but I still swimming every day and I will keep participating in meets, particulary the Words at Stanford next August. :)

That would be really fun and interesting. I'd love to do a week.

I'm in.

Yes, I agree, that would be very helpful, and I could certainly do a week...as long as I know in advance (travel some for work and can plan a week when I swim 5x).

I like gull's idea so here was our workout today: WU: 500 S, 200 K Main Set: 2 X 400 @ 5:20 - averaged them on about 4:45 so too much rest 4 X 200 @ 3:00 (25 back, 25 free throughout) - averaged about 2:30 8 X 100 IM @ 1:45 - averaged 1:20 so, again, a little too much rest but it felt goooood 400 K - no board, 25 free, 25 fly WD: 500 D/S by 25 Time: 75 minutes + 5 minutes pool socialization afterwards On tap for Monday - fitness yoga

Nice workout. I noticed that you went directly from the warm up to the main set, without a "pre" set. I have found that I need more time to warm up as I've aged, and even with that I still swim faster toward the end of the main set. Was there a break between the 400s and the 200s, and between the 200s and the 100s? When we train with the age groupers, we don't get a lot of rest, and I definitely feel the difference.

I agree with you, gull. I would have preferred a small pre-set as opposed to jumping right into the main set. We normally do 10 X 50 @ :45 or something similar to get the body ready, but not yesterday. And, yes, we were supposed to take a 1 minute rest between the 400s, 200s, 100s but I'm not so sure we actually took the full minute - poor clock management.

Gull a great Idea, I have already set up my knee recovery work outs nothing fancy and of course all crawl. Back to the 1000 meters a day, all what I call arms only, just little leg flutters for balance, lots of shoulder rolling no concern what the legs are doing' no socalled drills... First day will be---- about March 16th 200 slow 200 slower 200 slowest 200 at the slower pace then 200 at slow pace

Originally posted by aquageek I like gull's idea so here was our workout today: WU: 500 S, 200 K Main Set: 2 X 400 @ 5:20 - averaged them on about 4:45 so too much rest 4 X 200 @ 3:00 (25 back, 25 free throughout) - averaged about 2:30 8 X 100 IM @ 1:45 - averaged 1:20 so, again, a little too much rest but it felt goooood 400 K - no board, 25 free, 25 fly WD: 500 D/S by 25 Time: 75 minutes + 5 minutes pool socialization afterwards On tap for Monday - fitness yoga Thinking about doing this one next time, but was wondering if when you blog a workout, if you can add the total yardage so ones like me that read this forum in the morning and is too tired to add it up. Is this nitpicking? if this is, I'll just keep my piehole shut. I think this is a great idea for the readers like me that don't belong to a team and runs out of ideas for workouts. Keep it up.

If you would like to follow along with our Dynoswim team workouts, please feel free to do so. Just leave all the fields blank and you can see our practices in date order (latest posted first). www.dynoswim.com/searchWorkouts.php Regards, Dean O.