Unique Training for 3 Weeks

RE: Unique Training for 3 Weeks

Former Member — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:30:07 GMT

By my calculations, 10 such sets will be about 4,000 meters, give or take. You will have kissed your wife so many times that for the rest of the vacation she probably won't mind being ignored at the pool. No doubt about that. But then, of course, she will be wondering what I am feeling guilty about (she is used to being ignored when it comes to my hobbies). I really like the idea of locomotives per length. I was kind of thinking of trying the running drill where you just randomly train as fast as you can for as long as you feel like going broken with long periods of easy, technical training (wish I could remember that bizarre German word they use for that). __________________

RE: Unique Training for 3 Weeks

jim thornton — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:45:11 GMT

Fartlek training. Or, in participle form, Fartleking. As in, "The HumanPunchingBag was Fartlekking around, ignoring his wife, feeling guilty, but otherwise enjoying himself."

RE: Unique Training for 3 Weeks

Gdavis — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:01:11 GMT

Seriously though, I (agree with Jim and) would throw in some drills/games for boredom alleviation, including (random) things like: - head up swimming (water polo), say 25m head up, 25m regular - flip turn every 20m (keep going in same direction), working on speed of rotation and accelerating from stop to fast in the 1st 5m after each flip - changing from free to back each 5 strokes (oh Jim already suggested that) - sculling - play with a monofin or any other drills of choice for technique/strength/conditioning. At least that would give you something else to think about than "where the heck is that wall??"

RE: Unique Training for 3 Weeks

Gdavis — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:45:03 GMT

How about some laps underwater? You can get your breath back after each lap of course.

RE: Unique Training for 3 Weeks

Former Member — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:25:33 GMT

See if you can do a full length of butterfly or breaststroke. Butterfly eh? The closest hospital is about twenty minutes by ambulance, but the lifeguards in Vancouver are some of the best in the world. And I know they have a portable defibrilator. So I might just try that (with fins on though; a good man always knows his limitations).

RE: Unique Training for 3 Weeks

jim thornton — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:41:54 GMT

How about this: Swim one length. Get out. Slowly walk back. Kiss Your wife. Repeat in sets of three To add variation, you could do these: set #1: easy, medium, fast set #2: build each of the three set #3: 10 strokes fly, 20 strokes back, 10 strokes ***, 20 strokes free, till done set #4: kick and so forth--just keep on coming up with something different for each of the 3 x 137 meter swims per set By my calculations, 10 such sets will be about 4,000 meters, give or take. You will have kissed your wife so many times that for the rest of the vacation she probably won't mind being ignored at the pool.

RE: Unique Training for 3 Weeks

tjrpatt — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:53:17 GMT

That is a nice unique pool. That pool seems to be good for open water training. Did some ladder sets, 1, 15 sec, 2 lengths, 30 sec rest, etc. See if you can do a full length of butterfly or breaststroke.