Tag: Swim

I enjoyed the swim workout today, everything was pretty short distance. So even though I’m working hard it is only for a short period of time and then I get to rest 🙂 I was pretty beat after the 75, 50 and 25s though so 200 pull was more of a cool down for me.

500 warmup
500 pull
500 free
750 – 10 x 75 on 1:15
500 – 10 x 50 on 1:00 (fast down easy back)
250 – 10 x 25 on 30 (sprint)
600 – 3 x 200 pull
Total: 3600 yards

Weight: 166

This morning was an easy swim, relatively speaking. Not many people at the pool so we just kind of made it up as we went along. After the long bike ride yesterday I was kind of tired anyway.

500 warmup
500 pull
250 free
500 10×50 on 50
500 free
500 2×150 on 3:45
500 5×100 on 1:30
Total: 3250 yards

Weight: 167

I don’t know where that hour of sleep went, but I could have used it this morning. The alarm went off and I just didn’t want to get up. I look forward to swimming, even though they can be tough workouts, I almost feel like it is a day off. My body seems to recover much better from swimming than it does biking and especially running. The following is the workout from this morning.

600 warmup
400 pull
200 kick
500 10×50 on 55
500 4×125 on 2:00
500 5×100 on 1:45
500 4×125 pull on 2:00
500 5×100 on 1:45,1:30,1:45,1:30,1:45
Total: 3700 yards

Weight: 166

Some days you just need to take it easy. After two hard rides on the CompuTrainer on tuesday and thursday my body was feeling beat up, not to mention running outside again. The road definitely beats your legs up more than a treadmill does. The overall yardage of the swim was still pretty good at 3500 yards, but I paced myself a little different. Usually I swim hard and have longer rest periods but today I decided to swim at an easier pace and just rest less in between sets.

600 warmup
400 pull
300 kick
600 200×1, 100×2, 50×4  1:30 pace
600 200×1, 200×2, 50×4 1:40 pace
600 200×1, 200×2, 50×4 1:45 pace
400 cooldown
Total: 3500 yards

Weight: 167.5

Another good workout in the pool this morning. The over all workout was a little bit shorter than usual in total yardage but we were definitely pushing harder. I was leading in my lane so I didn’t get to draft and that made it a little tougher, but I would rather lead if I am fast enough.

600 warmup
400 pull
200 kick
800 – 4 x 125 free 75 stroke
200 kick
200 pull
400 – 4 x 75 stroke 25 free
400 – 8 x 25 easy 25 fast
Total: 3200 yards

Weight: 168

The good thing about swimming with a group is that they push you. This morning I was ready to just mail in a few thousand yards and call it a day. I woke up feeling tired and sore, yesterday taking a lot out of me for those intervals I could still feel it in my legs. Heading into the pool there wasn’t many people there to start and I was thinking this could be good, nice relaxing swim. That all ended quickly as I saw a blur go by in the water, great, the fast swimmers were here. I used to consider myself a pretty good swimmer until I started swimming with this group. This morning I had trouble keeping up with a guy doing the backstroke, pretty sad. But hey, it motivated me to swim hard and if they weren’t there I would have just relaxed and swam easy.

700 warmup
300 pull
200 kick
800 1×200, 2×100, 4×50, 8×25 free
800 1×200, 2×100, 4×50, 8×25 stroke
800 1×200, 2×100, 4×50, 8×25 free
300 cooldown
Total: 3900 yards

Weight: 166.75

Had a good swim workout this morning. Usually the first time through the main set I do well and then I just fall apart and can never seem to catch my breath. Today, though, was different and I felt stronger at the end. Maybe my swimming is getting better, I hope so. I did do some of the other strokes today where normally I just swim free. I really need to work on those more.

500 warmup
400 pull
200 kick
400 pull
200 free
400 4×100
200 4×50
400 pull
200 free
400 4×100
200 4×50
400 16×25
100 4×25 underwaters

Total: 4000 yards

Weight: 169

Had a good swim workout today. I was in early and got in a few extra yards during the warmup and managed to keep up for the pull. I liked the workout today because the distances were a little shorter than we do some other times so it was kind of like sprinting and I think we had a little more rest in between. As usual the workout is below.

700 – warmup
400 – pull
200 – kick
500 – 4 x 125
400 – 4 x 100
200 – 4 x 50
500 – 4 x 125
400 – 4 x 100
200 – 4 x 50
Total: 3500 yards

Weight: 168.5