New Year's Day specials!

RE: New Year's Day specials!

Bobinator — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:48:55 GMT

The Nasti's will most likely do 210 X 25. We start with lane 1 swimmers calling the stroke type and work across to lane 8. You usually get to make 3 or 4 calls. (fly, back ***, free, corkscrew, dolfins, feetfirst sculling, drills, all sorts of crazy things) The interval sort of depends on who shows up, the workout is never more difficult than the slowest swimmer can do! After the workout everyone meets at the lakefront home of a Nasti swimmer for a polar bear plunge, brunch, and hot tubbing! A great way to bring in the new year. Last year we were without a pool until the Hamilton Southeastern coach heard of our dilema and invited us to use their pool. I'm not sure where we'll be this year. :confused:

RE: New Year's Day specials!

Former Member — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:00:36 GMT

Our 12 Days of Christmas workout was also not very extreme: 1 x 25: swum as A 1 x 50: swum as A,B by 25 ... 1 x 300: swum as A,B,C,... by 25 each lap (A, B, etc) was a different stroke/drill/speed/whatever. The choice of what to do for each new segment was made by a different swimmer, with some encouragement to choose unusual drills, strokes, etc. (I.e. sidestroke, corkscrew, dolphin dives.) It's only 1950 yards, so more like a set than a workout. It's also as much of a mental workout as a physical one, remembering which lap comes next. We then did the pyramid a second time through, in reverse. We did the 100 x 100 workout as a Thanksgiving workout, rather than a New Year's workout.

RE: New Year's Day specials!

slknight — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:47:58 GMT

We did a 12 days of Christmas practice yesterday but we seem to be bigger slackers than the rest of you. :D It involved 12 "relays" of such things as underwater handstands, bobbing to the deep end, and biggest splash from the starting blocks. Between each set, we sang a verse of the 12 days of Christmas. :joker:

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Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:49:14 GMT

I plan on trying to hold one sierra Nevada per hour for twelve hours of football.

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Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:00:30 GMT

Practice we did today was 16x300's. Odds I did 100fly,100free,100fly and the evens were 300free pull they were all on 4:00. We then followed that set up with 20x100s free on 1:40 all off the block and we were to hold under a minute for all of them. Mine were in the 58-1:00 range. Tomorrow we are doing 100x25's fly on 30. We will do 10 then after 10th will do 100fly on 2:00 then back to next 10 followed by another hundred. Goal is to hold all the 10x100 fly's under a minute. Kinda looking forward to this. Happy Holidays. You must really enjoy pain!:bolt:

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Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:58:44 GMT

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Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:19:38 GMT

A handful of aspirin and a strong cup of coffee?

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ViveBene — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:16:08 GMT

I remember the Cumberland! 500 swim (freestyle) 400 IM 300 BK 200 BR 100 Fly Lagniappe: 1 minute of vertical kicking The Gray Sharks' "fun swim" 100 x 100 allows all aids: tech suits, music, fins, boards, bad jokes, sly cheating/inadvertent miscounting, No-Doze, drafting, coffee breaks, hauling on the lane lines...:cheerleader: A day at the water park!

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That Guy — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:06:12 GMT

I might do The Cumberland* again and try to improve on the 19:36 I posted last year. * New Year's swims - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums

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Midas — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:09:09 GMT

I'm always interested to hear what people do for their New Year's Day specials or Twelve Days of Christmas swims, either by themselves or with a team. Fort has a beaut on her blog. Any others? :banana: After I finish killing myself in the Gray Sharks' 100 x 100 (or 75, or 50) fun swim, I am going to circus school, where I will get to wear spangly tights and hang by my heels. :bliss: I would never have thought to see "100x100" and "fun swim" in the same sentence! We're doing our 12 days of Christmas practice tomorrow. I'm VERY afraid...:afraid: