Today's Workout

Rise and shine at 4:39 AM.

Abs (the usual 390 crunches and 200 regular situps) then off to the gym for upper body weights. When the pool opened at 6 AM, I dove into a 60-minute anaerobic endurance workout of 2400 meters (3oo meters swim warmup, 8 x 75 with the pull buoy breathing every third stroke, 300 meters kick. The main set was 500 meters, followed by 3 x 75 fast, 1 x 75 slow, 2 x 75 fast, 1 x 75 slow, 1 x 75 fast. The cool down was 100 meters).

This is a speed workout so while I can usually squeeze a lot of activity in an hour I can also be seen at the end of the pool between sets gasping for breath. I hate anaerobic endurance workouts in case that is not obvious.