Sometimes after our workouts I feel completely wiped. (I refer to this as "blowing a gasket"). It's all I can do to drag myself to the car and drive home, which is luckily not very far. Usually it's a sprint workout that will do it. Let's just say that it makes it hard to get work done the rest of the day... Does this happen to anyone else? Any suggestions, other than "don't swim as hard," which seems to be defeat the reason why I am there in the first place? (It doesn't seem to me that I am swimming harder than anyone else).
Thursday night we had a fun little spring workout. Now the times are slow because I'm slow, I'll have you know I had an average of 10-15 seconds rest.
50 Pull(1:00) 100 (2:00) 25 all out (0:45)
3 1 2
3 2 4
3 3 6
3 4 8
Now - about a week ago - I was swimming 100s on about 1:55-2:00ish. This last week - I've been so busy I haven't been able to lift at all, and I was swimming them on 1:40-1:45! That was exciting - but I can honestly say even though I went 100% all out (I love sprints, and I want to beat all of the other people on my interval - no matter what) on every swim, I wasn't completely cashed out at the end of the night.
Now - it could be because I had a hammer gel going in to practice - but that was because I hadn't' eaten since about 3-4 hours before practice... However - I felt pretty decent (tired, but decent) after practice was done.
How's it going Philo? Are you doing some twisting motion workouts as well as standard situps? If you want a great book with exercises - I recommend the Abs Diet:
Amazon.com: The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (9781579549985): David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker: Books
Thursday night we had a fun little spring workout. Now the times are slow because I'm slow, I'll have you know I had an average of 10-15 seconds rest.
50 Pull(1:00) 100 (2:00) 25 all out (0:45)
3 1 2
3 2 4
3 3 6
3 4 8
Now - about a week ago - I was swimming 100s on about 1:55-2:00ish. This last week - I've been so busy I haven't been able to lift at all, and I was swimming them on 1:40-1:45! That was exciting - but I can honestly say even though I went 100% all out (I love sprints, and I want to beat all of the other people on my interval - no matter what) on every swim, I wasn't completely cashed out at the end of the night.
Now - it could be because I had a hammer gel going in to practice - but that was because I hadn't' eaten since about 3-4 hours before practice... However - I felt pretty decent (tired, but decent) after practice was done.
How's it going Philo? Are you doing some twisting motion workouts as well as standard situps? If you want a great book with exercises - I recommend the Abs Diet:
Amazon.com: The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (9781579549985): David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker: Books
