What are some legendary jaw dropping workout sets you've heard of people doing or you yourself have done? I've always been curious as to what kinds of mind blowing things Grant Hackett or other distance Gods has done but have never found anything. I remember an article of olympians talking about the craziest sets they've done, but I couldn't re-track it down. I figure someone on these boards must have heard of some doozies and done some! Here's some that I heard about that I thought were amazing.
Erik Vendt 30 x 1000 (short course yards) going 10 off 10:45, 10 off 10:30 and 10 off 10:15. Who knows what the times were but jeez!
Erik Vendt 5 x (500 free followed by a 400 I.M.)
The 500's were on the 5:30, with a goal of holding just below five minutes.
IMs descending on five minutes
First 4:08 last 3:43
Larsen Jensen
20x1500 on 20:00 goal to go under 18:00 each. Apparently he stopped at 17 because he didn't make the time.
Michael Phelps
5,000 free for time in a 46:34.
James Hickman
12 x 200 fly on 3:00 (Hickman does 2:16 to 2:20)
12 x 300 fly/IM (alternate) on 4:30
2400 fly (Hickman does under 29 minutes-1:12 average/100m)
There are lots of jaw-dropping sets mentioned in "Four Champions One Gold Medal" (which is excellent, by the way). Here are just a couple.
Mike Bruner swam a 10,000 (yards) for time in 1976. His splits for the 1000s were 9:47, 9:55, 9:56, 9:59, 9:59, 9:59, 9:59, 9:59, 10:00, 9:40.
Bobby Hackett 100x100 (yards) on 1:00. According to the book he started out holding 57s and gradually started descending. For the final 20 he held 54s, and swam a 52.1 on the final 100.
There are lots of jaw-dropping sets mentioned in "Four Champions One Gold Medal" (which is excellent, by the way). Here are just a couple.
Mike Bruner swam a 10,000 (yards) for time in 1976. His splits for the 1000s were 9:47, 9:55, 9:56, 9:59, 9:59, 9:59, 9:59, 9:59, 10:00, 9:40.
Bobby Hackett 100x100 (yards) on 1:00. According to the book he started out holding 57s and gradually started descending. For the final 20 he held 54s, and swam a 52.1 on the final 100.
