A Day Closer

Monday started a new week of training as we race towards Quadrathon. Besides all the training, Jay Unver came by and interviewed me. His interview should show up here in the near future. Back to the training. We hit the weights and we hit them hard. The days are getting longer, and now we are only out there a little while before the eastern sky begins to lighten. Spring is coming and it won't be long now.

We benched. I pressed

  20 X 50

  10 X 71

  6 X 100

  2 X 120

  5 X 140

  5 X 140

  5 X 140

  5 X 140

  5 X 140

  2 X 145

  1 X 150

We also did some log press work, some seated dips, and of course we finished with our swim complex. The swim complex is a circuit of exercises desgned to improve our swimming. It goes like this:

  Swim Pull - 21 X 45

  Skierg - 4:45

  Swim cords - 50

The Swim Pull is done on the lat pull down machine. I have a special bar made my Leflore Steel that lets us mimic the catch and pull of the free style stroke. We then go straight into the Skierg which gives some really good cardio for the swim muscles. The last thing is the swim cords. We do that, bent over and again mimicking the swim stroke but pulling the cords really fast which works the fast twitch muscle fibers. By the end of those, I am breathing so hard that if an EMT were to walk up, he would administer oxygen ASAP. It's working. My times in the pool are getting a little quicker.

After work, I shuffled 2.82 miles. Then I met Tyler and Vicki at the pool. She had heard us talk about doing 100s and wanted in on the fun. When doing hard 100 repeats, it is desirable to have someone in the pool doing it with you. If not, it is always tempting to call the session off early and go home. The 100s are brutal but effective. They will make you fast, yeah. The practice looked like this:

  1,150

  50 breast

  50 back/breast 

  14 X 100 @ 2:17

  150 easy

  total: 2,800 yards

So another day is done. Tomorrow is March 1 which means Quadrathon is a calendar month closer than it was. We are getting there. I am beginning to get excited. Thank you, Jesus.