#training schedule

[gymaaholic]

Me explaining my training schedule to my friends

So they can understand why I don’t show up to random events.

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THE 9-5: Blending Career & Fighting

THE 9-5: Blending Career & Fighting

Training With A Full-Time Job Can Be Done  (Featured Image: Credit to Diamond Muay Thai) Credit: Diamond Muay Thai Individuals who train fall into three main categories: hobbyists, infrequent fliers, and fighters. But somewhere in there is a thin slice representing a less well known type: the 9-5er, who at 5 PM walks out the door, transitioning promptly from battling traffic to engaging in…

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[inasoutherlydirection]

When am I going to learn...

…that completing your training schedule is the only way to train. Not half assing. Not, oh well my schedule got mixed up this week from what it was supposed to be and I don’t feel like doing it.

Half-assing things will never get you where you want to go.

2 runs (1 long, 1 short) and a cross training was all that was completed last week.

Here’s hoping for a full week of proper training, in the right schedule and moving forward.

[chlorineandqualms-blog]

Day 19

Again no morning training today. Afternoon was rougher though (as always).

We swam:

1 x 200 freestyle warm up

12 x 50 freestyle 

12 x 50 IM order

4 x 15 underwater kick

2 x 25 specialty kick sprint

2 x 25 specialty fullstroke sprint

8 x 100 freestyle (3 fast, 1 easy)

4 x 50 as pb + 3 on interval of 1:10

1 x 800 warm down.

Total:  3.3k

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Day 11

This afternoon went pretty well. The coach is still easing on us and it’s exponentially increasing how nervous I feel for future trainings.

We swam:

1 x 200 freestyle warm up (At this point what else would we do?)

8 x 50 IM order

4 x 50 specialty kick

4 x 50 specialty drills

8 x 50 specialty full stroke.

4 x 25 kick sprint

4 x 25 full stroke sprint with dives

1 x 50 specialty sprint (like it’s the first 50 of a 100 meter sprint.) This sucked mainly due to the high altitude which meant it took like a year to get my breathing rate down to normal

1 x 600 warm down

1 x 400 IM (extra) warm down

Total: 2650 meters.

Total for the day: 7.05k

The inner optimist in me is praying that coach was only easing for that 50 meter sprint, not some truly evil training yet to come. That would mean that trainings would go back to normal - shitty and nearly unbearable.

The pessimist assumes coach’s giving us easier trainings so he spare his energy because he’s secretly devising a plan for world domination. 

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Day 18

No one told me there was no training this morning so I dragged myself out of bed and scrambled to get to the lobby. I was pleasantly surprised that it was early and the rest of the team hadn’t gotten down yet (a rarity). I was wrong. Nobody came down. :(

In the afternoon we swam:

1 x 200 freestyle warm-up (this is getting hella repetitive.)

9 x 100 freestyle as 100 free, 100 IM, 100 specialty kick

4 x 15 underwater kick

2 x 25 specialty kick sprint

2 x 25 specialty full stroke sprint

16 x 50 freestyle on 40 seconds (This sucked more than last time, the Sichuan team that was sharing the lane was creating a current that was going against us. My arms nearly fell off.)

1 x 200 freestyle easy

20 x 50 specialty kick as 50 sprint, 50 easy

20 x 50 specialty full stroke as 50 sprint, 50 easy

1 X 50 sprint (I got 26.7)

1 x 600 freestyle warm-down

Total: 4.85k 

Ugh I think I’ve finally gotten used to the altitude and gotten back into the whole swimming. Progress. 

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Day 3

Shit finally got real today in morning training. 

1 x 200 freestyle (warm-up)

6 x 150 as 50 free, 50 IM, 50 free

16 x 50 freestyle with paddles and pool buoy

16 x 50 freestyle full stroke (emphasis on kick)

16 x 50 freestyle with paddles and pool buoy (emphasis on stroke length)

4 x 200 kick. IM order.

Total: 4.3k

Today my coach (in his ineffable wisdom) abruptly pulled me aside while I was struggling through the third 16 x 50 set and declared that I was breathing on both sides (I was doing one breath every three strokes.) He then deemed this an archaic practice, denouncing it’s efficacy and deriding it as a misguided stroke technique of the ‘80s. (All of this was about breathing once every three strokes for freestyle.)

He then decreed that I swim breathing on the same side the entire time. (This would mean that I’d breathe on an even number of strokes so one breath every 2, 4, or 6 strokes.) He asserted that the 8 fastest freestyle swimmers in China all did this.

He hesitated, appearing to consider what he’d say next, (The coach always knows what’s next.) then clarified that the 8 fastest freestyle swimmers in China were all highly capable of breathing on both sides but had found single-sided breathing to be far more effective.

So there a tip for you aspiring swimmers/triathletes/iron-men if you guys wanted it.

If any of you guys are confused about this quasi-philosophical discussion on breathing, that’s ok, I am too.