USA's Hardest Workouts... EVER.

From the ASCA 200 Issue Volume 1.  These are unreal. 

·         24 x 400 LCM, 6 of each stroke, descending.  So, 6 x 400 Fly, descending, then 6 x 400 Back, descending and so on.  No interval.  If you can make it, you did it.  Completed by Tom Dolan

·         80 x 200 Free on 2:30 LCM wearing gym shorts.  Completed by Trina Jackson. No one else has done it.  Others tried, but were dragged from the pool barely conscious. 

·         20 x 1500 LCM on 20:00.  Larsen Jensen, made it to #17, then missed his interval.  Stunning.  This give us something to shoot for…

·         4 x 5,000 on 50:00, SCY by Jeff Kostoff.  Did it at Stanford.  That’s 20,000 yards averaging under :60 per 100.  Makes me delirious just thinking about it.

And, the number one toughest workout completed, ever, in the pool:

·         30 x 1,000 on 10:00, completed by Eric Vendt – the gold standard in aquatic masochistic training.  He did this… in HIGH SCHOOL. 

Janet Evans did not make the list - but her intervals on the famous set are here:

4x the following:

1x400 IM (5:15)

2x200 Free (2:00)

4x100 IM (:55)

She would take her heart rate after each round - and the coach (Richard Quick) would often have to shave off interval time to get it to properly elevate. 
As written it is 4800 yards in under 52 mins.  Mostly Non free.
Ready go.