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)
Here's one that is right up there or better than Bobby Hackett - Jeff Kostoff did 3x5000 on 50 minutes. I've got his repeat times at home (old Swimming World magazine) and I think he descended the third one down to 46+.
Jeff swam for Stanford, held the American Record in the 1650 for over 10 years and still holds the National high school record in the 500 free from the early 80s. Just this year he was listed in Swimming World as perhaps the greatest workout swimmer of all time. He also did sets like 10x400 IM on 4:20 (he held the American Record in the 400 IM, too).
My college team once did a drop out set of 100s on 1:05. I "only" made 55 but a teammate made 100. We never had a swimmer qualify for NCAAs so I'm quite sure dozens of teams each had a dozen swimmers that could have routinely done sets like that.
Jeff Roddin
Here's one that is right up there or better than Bobby Hackett - Jeff Kostoff did 3x5000 on 50 minutes. I've got his repeat times at home (old Swimming World magazine) and I think he descended the third one down to 46+.
Jeff swam for Stanford, held the American Record in the 1650 for over 10 years and still holds the National high school record in the 500 free from the early 80s. Just this year he was listed in Swimming World as perhaps the greatest workout swimmer of all time. He also did sets like 10x400 IM on 4:20 (he held the American Record in the 400 IM, too).
My college team once did a drop out set of 100s on 1:05. I "only" made 55 but a teammate made 100. We never had a swimmer qualify for NCAAs so I'm quite sure dozens of teams each had a dozen swimmers that could have routinely done sets like that.
Jeff Roddin
