Tuesday, July 22, 2008

IM GLAD Swim Workout from Coach Dave Main Set 1600 yards

Long warm up with drill kicks,

then

4 x 75 IM Order
25 Pull
25 Stroke
25 FREE

300 IM Order Kick

Main Set: Ladder 10" rest per 100 yds

100 IM
200 IM
300 IM
400 IM
300 IM
200 IM
100 IM

Nap time. Try it out.

basta.
T

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Hoff Sees an Olympic Pool Lined With Gold - NYTimes.com


Hoff Sees an Olympic Pool Lined With Gold - NYTimes.com Photo by Don Mirale, Getty Images

Finally getting some national press on fine women swimmers as well as the usual one eye adulation on a "hero motif" -- in this sport Michael Phelps.

There are so many fine athletes in the water-- you can understand the reporter's interest in stuttering Phelps Hoff Phelps Hoff.

But a nuanced niche swim preliminary reporting would look at all the fine swimmers within a few seconds of the media stars.

How did they get there? What kind of work outs do they do?

How are they going to manage the difficult taper and peak in time for the Olympics in China?

And as great as the swimmers are -- how about the Chinese human rights record-- what do these young people have to say about oppression in the Olympic host country or our own?

Exercise pattern, taper, politics would bring these people to life in a way that few people get these days.

best fishes,

Timothy

Monday, June 30, 2008

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

IM Work out

5" warm up

12" 25 butterfly kick 25 front, 25 back each way



2 x :

4 x 75 kick drill swim IM Order

200 Pull

100 IM

Main Set

4 x 25 IM Order

4 x 100 IM Fast

4 x 50 IM Order

3 x 100 IM Fast

4 x 75 IM Order

2 x 100 FAST

4 x 100 IM

1 x 100 IM FAST

Go play.

T Swimmy