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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Jim...you probably guessed...I was talking about Kirk Anderson...sad to say but I think Nort's program was almost a "sprint" program vs. what he had been put through by Sherm at Arden Hills!
I'll never forget coming back from UCSB over Xmas in 1978 and going to "train" with Sherm...Jeff Float was till there at that time (another workout machine) and the set was 10 x 500's swim, 10 x 500's pull...on his sendoff (for Jeff I think it was around 5:15/5:30 range). Needless to say lasted for about 30 minutes!
... the glory days of Peter Szmidt, Graham Smith, Peter Tragitt, Par Arvidsson, etc, etc.
As a freshman, I must have heard at least 100 times: "we used to send our B team to thump Stanford!". :notworthy:
Nothing like going 25,000+ meters a day as a skinny sprint breaststroker... :shakeshead:
Jim...you probably guessed...I was talking about Kirk Anderson...sad to say but I think Nort's program was almost a "sprint" program vs. what he had been put through by Sherm at Arden Hills!
I'll never forget coming back from UCSB over Xmas in 1978 and going to "train" with Sherm...Jeff Float was till there at that time (another workout machine) and the set was 10 x 500's swim, 10 x 500's pull...on his sendoff (for Jeff I think it was around 5:15/5:30 range). Needless to say lasted for about 30 minutes!
... the glory days of Peter Szmidt, Graham Smith, Peter Tragitt, Par Arvidsson, etc, etc.
As a freshman, I must have heard at least 100 times: "we used to send our B team to thump Stanford!". :notworthy:
Nothing like going 25,000+ meters a day as a skinny sprint breaststroker... :shakeshead:
