Exercise Week Ending August 15

Wednesday, August 11

Went to LA Fitness but the pool was closed. They were working on the heating problem.

Thursday, August 12

Pool was open again today, thank goodness. I did my standard workout:

Warmup: 1 lap easy breaststroke, 2 laps easy backstroke, rest 1 minute

Set 1: 2 laps sidestroke, rest 1 minute

Set 2: 2 laps backstroke, rest 1 minute

Set 3: 2 laps hard breaststroke, rest 1 minute

Set 4: 2 laps overhand backstroke, rest 1-1/2 minutes

Set 5: Combination crawl (arms) and frog kick legs, rest 1-1/2 minutes

Set 6: 1 lap hard crawl, rest 2 minutes

5 minutes in the hot tub

15 minutes in the sauna

Total time in gym: 50 minutes

Sunday, August 15

This seemed like a pretty normal swim routine for me, except for one thing. I must have worked a lot harder during my third set than I normally do — I needed a full 2-1/4 minutes to recover before starting set 4!

Warmup: 1 lap easy breaststroke, 2 laps easy backstroke, rest 1 minute

Set 1: 2 laps sidestroke, rest 1 minute

Set 2: 2 laps backstroke, rest 1 minute

Set 3: 2 laps hard breaststroke, rest 2-1/4 minutes

Set 4: 2 laps overhand backstroke, rest 1-1/2 minutes

Set 5: Combination crawl (arms) and frog kick legs, rest 1-1/2 minutes

Set 6: 1 lap hard crawl, rest 2 minutes

5 minutes in the hot tub

12 minutes in the sauna