Working with the date

A question was posed to me by my niece Franci, "I need a swimming workout because I'm getting bored with swimming a 1/2 hour continuous." I am delighted to hear she has gotten back into the water, she has a little swimming background from her youth.

This is an easy way (may be confusing to you at 1st glance) to make up a workout by using the numbers in the date of today.

example: today is March 22, 2016 or looking at all the numbers 3.22.2016

w/u 400
Swim 3 x 50 (:45)
Paddles 550 (work in drill)
Swim 2 x 50
Pull       550
Swim 2 x 50
Paddles 550
Kick 2 x 25
Pull       550
Swim 150
Paddles 550
Swim 6 x 75 (5 sec. rest)
c/d 400
= 4550 yards

So today, I took all the #'s, added them up, which = 16, so that's 400 yards (I used that for my warm up and cool down distance).
With in that continuous warm up,
1st I did 25 drill/ 50 easy free for the 3... get it 3 lengths = 75 yards    3-22-2016
then       25 drill/ 25 easy free for the 1st 2      3-22-2016
then       25 drill/ 25 easy free for the 2nd 2     3-22-2016
then       25 drill/ 25 free for the 3rd 2              3-22-2016
then       25 kick on back for the 1                    3-22-2016
finish with 25 drill/ 125 free for the 6              3-22-2016
= 400 yards

Now the work out: remember 1 length= a 25, 2 lengths= a 50, 3 lengths = a 75 and so on.

3.22.2016

Take the 1st two numbers 3 and 2, this would be 3 x 50 (pick an interval that you get 3-5 seconds rest), so there is 2x2, 2x2, 2x1, 1x6(that's a 150), and 6 (last # of the date) x 3 (1st # of the date) confused yet; easier than you think.

Paddles and Pulling 550 ( 22 lengths is a 550, so that's where the 550 came from)

So that's how I use a date in my workouts, keeps me interested.

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