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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Here's a jaw-dropping workout we did yesterday in swim practice called "king of the hill"
Basically, you swim as many 100s as you can, and each 100 gets progressivly faster. The 100s start on 1:50 then you get a second faster on each one.
So the first 3 would be:
1:50
1:49
1:48
etc.
I made it 10 laps before dropping out (you go untill you pysically can't go anymore). Some people on my team made it to 40!
"King of the Hill" definately makes you feel like you are going to vomit!
We also did a 2000 fly one day in practice (with fins, thankfully)! That hurt!
Here's a jaw-dropping workout we did yesterday in swim practice called "king of the hill"
Basically, you swim as many 100s as you can, and each 100 gets progressivly faster. The 100s start on 1:50 then you get a second faster on each one.
So the first 3 would be:
1:50
1:49
1:48
etc.
I made it 10 laps before dropping out (you go untill you pysically can't go anymore). Some people on my team made it to 40!
"King of the Hill" definately makes you feel like you are going to vomit!
We also did a 2000 fly one day in practice (with fins, thankfully)! That hurt!
