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Category: Training

January 10, 2013

Chlorine is my perfume (13)

I am neither pro swimmer nor doctor, so you are following my advice on your own risk. For better understanding, read my Quick Reference first.

Yay, this category is still alive! Happy new year, and keep moving – in any weather!

  • Warm-Up: 200K, 100R, 100B, 75K
  • 10×100 endurance: 3x(100K, 100R, 100L), 100B
  • 3x25S-legs (25 on the left side, 25 on the right side, 25 normal)
  • 2x25B-legs, 25B
  • 4x100K (50K breathing every 3rd stroke, 50K breathing every 5th stroke)
  • 50K sprint (or anything else you’d define as your “main stroke”)
  • Cool down: 125K

(Total: 2200m)

October 9, 2012

Sunshine Highway

(Biking) “Pour your misery down on meeee…” Full-scale test of my shoecovers: they work _way_ better when you wear them.

Soundtrack: Garbage – “Only happy when it rains” (and the autosuggestion really worked for almost two hours!)

And now for something instructive, finally: how do we deal with (light) hypothermia? Pro advice: hot beverages with lots of sugar and no alcohol. Have fun testing (and take care not to die from exposure).

June 28, 2012

Chlorine is my perfume (12)

I am neither pro swimmer nor doctor, so you are following my advice on your own risk. For better understanding, read my Quick Reference first.

Summer special: two trainings today! Minimalistic, entertaining and possibly even effective.

Day 1: Frosty outdoor pool

  • Warm-Up: 50K, 50B
  • 4x200K (150K easy, 50K sprint)
  • 4x200K (100K slow, 100K fast)
  • 4x200K (50K easy, 150K fast)
  • 4x200K (increase speed from easy to sprint)
  • Cool down: 100B, 100K

(Total: 3500m)

Day 2: Cozy indoor pool

  • Warm-Up: 200K, 100R, 100B
  • 4×200 (50K-legs, 100K-complete stroke, 50K-legs)
  • 100B easy recovery
  • 6x100L
  • 4×50 (25 diving, 25K-sprint)
  • Cool down: 100B, 100K

(Total: 2300m)