Grant Gannon » Swimming http://www.grantgannon.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:48:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Catching up from the weekend http://www.grantgannon.com/catching-up-from-the-weekend/ http://www.grantgannon.com/catching-up-from-the-weekend/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:26:24 +0000 Grant Gannon http://www.grantgannon.com/?p=471 Well, not exactly catching up from the weekend because I didn’t really do anything. Unless you count hours of walking around Michigan Ave. which should count for something.
Yesterday was 34 minutes on the treadmill.

This morning’s swim was:

W/U: 200sw/200pu

6X100 on the 1:50

50 drill

6×100 on the 1:50

C/D: 100 pu

Weights this evening proved to be annoying as people tended to linger on the weight machines making it hard to have any sort of rhythm. I didn’t complete the workout. Annoyed.
But in good news my weight is starting to come down.

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Total I got in:

Three treadmill workouts, three pool workouts and a weight session.

Pool workout this morning was:

W/U – 200sw, 200pull

Set – 12x100y on the 1:50

C/D – 50 pull

I added two more 100s to the set just because I was feeling pretty good. I still have a long way to go, but this is a fantastic start.

]]> http://www.grantgannon.com/seven-workouts-this-week/feed/ 0 Channeling Jason Lezak http://www.grantgannon.com/channeling-jason-lezak/ http://www.grantgannon.com/channeling-jason-lezak/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:10:30 +0000 Grant Gannon http://www.grantgannon.com/?p=464 Jason LezakOne of my favorite swimmers is Jason Lezak. He of the fastest 100 split time ever swam….which just happened to be in the final leg of the 4×100 relay at the 2008 Olympics.  When I decided to start lifting weights a few months ago I went and found a workout used by Lezak for sprint swimmers.

I did the upper body section of that  tonight and managed okay. The weight section of the Galter is nice, albeit a little cramped.

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200y slow W/U

10x100y on the 1:50

50y C/D

My heart rate was fine throughout, my muscles were still a little sore from Sunday’s work however.

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I had set out to work out 14 times during February…I made it to the gym 3 times. Meh…win some lose some.

Today’s work out:

W/U 200 swim/200 pull

5×100 on the 1:50

100 pull, 100 IM

5X100 on the 1:50

C/D 50 backstroke pull

]]> http://www.grantgannon.com/strong-morning-workout/feed/ 0 $80/month to be fat or to get skinny http://www.grantgannon.com/80month-to-be-fat-or-to-get-skinny/ http://www.grantgannon.com/80month-to-be-fat-or-to-get-skinny/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:19:59 +0000 Grant Gannon http://www.grantgannon.com/?p=444 I can come up with 1000 reasons why I haven’t worked out in the last five months. The one about wedding and honeymoon doesn’t fly anymore however. So today I signed on at the Galter Life Center at Swedish Covenant Hospital. It’s four whole blocks from the house. It’s on the way home, parking is great, the facility is wonderful and the classes are what I need. No more excuses.

Workout:

200 swim/200 pull

10X100 with 10 sec rest

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Since leaving Dallas I slowly fell back into some bad habits. I was still generally healthy, not as active, but I kept in shape. But six months ago, my fitness became a total after thought. Wedding, travel, moving, life, other were my main focus. Along the way I gained a considerable amount of weight.  The wedding (both mine and that of friends) occupied so much of me and Millie’s time that we chose to spend what little free time we had doing anything but working out. I had so little time during the week and rarely had a weekend where we weren’t traveling, I made the choice to rest and recuperate rather than work out….and eat pizza.

That changed today with my first swim in nearly seven months. It was hard and equal parts frustrating and exhilarating. Frustrating because I once could knock 1000 yards as a warm up but exhilarating as I was reminded what it’s like to be in the water. I love it. I love the pool so much more than the treadmill. I’ve promised myself I’ll get back in shape.

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