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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In high school, I once did 100x100 yards at 1:10. That crap almost killed me. I started out OK, but by about 100 number 83, I was doing 1:08s... Here's to the mind-numbingly tedious sets of the 80s.
In the late 70's a friend of mine was swimming at Cal...he was a legendary "workout" swimmer who also finaled in the 1500 at Trails. First person i ever heard of who went 100 x 100's om 1:00, he did that during a 2 week Xmas workout period where he was going 3 x 10,000 yard workouts a day.
Having swam at Cal in the early 80s, I can vouch for the "insanity" of some of the workouts when Nort was really into lots of yardage. 30k a day was a lot, but par for the course during Xmas break before we went home for a few days.
I'm glad my 81 year old mother doesn't read this thread (or know how to turn on a computer) as we are mormon--beer and whatever was being puffed would not have gone over well.
That's pretty funny. Yeah, lots of kids tend to put their religious beliefs on hold somewhat during college.
Perhaps I was mistaken, my memory has failed me, and his brother wasn't there after all....
... yeah, that's it! ;)
Thanks for clarifying. Although if he were there, maybe he never inhaled?:bolt:
That's pretty funny. Yeah, lots of kids tend to put their religious beliefs on hold somewhat during college.
Perhaps I was mistaken, my memory has failed me, and his brother wasn't there after all....
... yeah, that's it! ;)
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!
