This morning I was swimming a short descend set, and thought it would be really difficult to go back through my workout logs to figure out if it was a descent effort.
What about logging just the most important part of a workout? You could setup twitter and tweet your workout creating a workout log for the technophile, or just a notebook in the car/swim bag for the technophobe. Easy to do right after practice before the important parts slip your mind.
Today I would have logged: 3x100 on 1:20 descend 1-3; 1:11 1:07 1:03
What is most important to me right now is speed 100s and 200s free, but I think the one liner concept has validity for sprinters, stroke specialists, distance, open water swimmers and fitness swimmers. Duration, pace, distance or conditions might be important depending on your log.
Do I care what my warm up was two months ago, or if I did fist drill on the 3rd 50 of a drill set? I don't think so, but this is a new idea for me. I could be missing something.
What kind of things would you log? What are the faults of this approach?
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However, main set detail can be lengthy and very important. So one line would be tough on most days.
Greg, Since you blog most of your workouts, do you have an example of something that would be meaningful to you but couldn't be captured in a short line? It could be that a small sample for me is meaningful because I am still dropping time even at inseason meets compared to someone who is only going to see time improvements during a taper meet.
Rykno, I am not trying to convert people, just wondering if it would be useful to lazy people like myself who might commit to writing one line. Over achievers like yourself can carry on.
Logged where? I thought tweets were ephemeral (except for LoC capturing them, which I figured was going to happen real-time).
Skip, I don't think twitter automatically expires anything, so you tweet your daily workout, twitter will have 365 lines of workouts for you at the end of the year.
However, main set detail can be lengthy and very important. So one line would be tough on most days.
Greg, Since you blog most of your workouts, do you have an example of something that would be meaningful to you but couldn't be captured in a short line? It could be that a small sample for me is meaningful because I am still dropping time even at inseason meets compared to someone who is only going to see time improvements during a taper meet.
Rykno, I am not trying to convert people, just wondering if it would be useful to lazy people like myself who might commit to writing one line. Over achievers like yourself can carry on.
Logged where? I thought tweets were ephemeral (except for LoC capturing them, which I figured was going to happen real-time).
Skip, I don't think twitter automatically expires anything, so you tweet your daily workout, twitter will have 365 lines of workouts for you at the end of the year.
