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?
* If your name rhymes with "That Guy", assume that you have a 120 character limit typed on an old fashioned type writer.
I wouldn't care to tweet my workouts to the world (who would care?) but a one-line
summary of my workout would be useful if the FLOG had a linear viewing option:
2011-04-06, bike, 24 miles
2011-04-07, weight, 184lbs
2011-04-07, swim, 2400 yds, 5X200 @ 3:30 ...
etc...
i log every meter and set. it's great to be able to go back and look at a series of 10x100 and see what my start times were and how hard I thought it was on a given day.
it's fun to go back to 2008 and see that I was swimming 10x100m on st 1:40 swimming 1:28 and now I am swimming 10x100m st 1:30 holding 1:18
Good idea Q!
I crack myself up when I blog or flog my silly workouts, in fact I don't even go back and read them myself!
I would love it if I could get a main set FB'ed to me every day; I could just put my blackberry in a zip-lock bag and go straight to the pool right after work and "just do it!" :bolt:
What about logging just the most important part of a workout?
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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.
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What kind of things would you log? What are the faults of this approach?
I've thought about this before and often will reduce listing my warmup/warmdown to just the distance and not specifics. After all, it probably doesn't matter much to me.
However, main set detail can be lengthy and very important. So one line would be tough on most days.
It's not a bad idea. If a lot of people did this, you could get quick practice ideas from a twitter feed on a moment's notice.
If I had the chance to, I'd be training like I used to in college, or at least close to it, then I could still be giving those distance races a real chance.
James, I am concerned for your mental health.
As for the topic at hand, I wasn't criticizing your yardage and I believe your concern over set order might be valid for longer workouts that have the yardage for multiple main sets, but sadly that isn't me. Even back when I was getting 4-5k workouts/day in, it always seemed like there was one set that I really wanted to kill and the rest were more survival mode, but this could be that I am just an immature swimmer and lack the experience to maximize the benefit of my training.
I wouldn't care to tweet my workouts to the world (who would care?) but a one-line
I don't think anyone would care about mine either, but I can tweet from my phone and then it is logged online. Very likely the one line logs would only make sense to the log owner.
Good example of one liners meaningful to a triathlete.
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.
