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)
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I have to admit having done some pretty 'nasty' sets as a sophomore in high school back in '79. 10,000 yard days during the season, including the days right before and after meets, etc. Christmas vacation consisted of 15,000-16,000 yard days. Don't remember the workouts too well, some of them were done on autopilot, as you might imagine, but sets of 10x100 on 1:00 or 1:05 weren't uncommon. Some days we started out with 5x200 butterfly!
We all lost count of how many times we came out of the pool puking. But then, of course, we got right back in and kept going!
Of course, we spent not one minute of practice on technique throughout that entire season. It really was the Dark Ages, wasn't it?
I have to admit having done some pretty 'nasty' sets as a sophomore in high school back in '79. 10,000 yard days during the season, including the days right before and after meets, etc. Christmas vacation consisted of 15,000-16,000 yard days. Don't remember the workouts too well, some of them were done on autopilot, as you might imagine, but sets of 10x100 on 1:00 or 1:05 weren't uncommon. Some days we started out with 5x200 butterfly!
We all lost count of how many times we came out of the pool puking. But then, of course, we got right back in and kept going!
Of course, we spent not one minute of practice on technique throughout that entire season. It really was the Dark Ages, wasn't it?
