Top Tips
Pick up knowledge to improve your outdoor swimming. Learn how to plan routes, train with others, complete events, and overcome obstacles like nerves or fitness level. Get guidance on skills like bodysurfing, underwater swimming, and adapting your stroke for rivers and seas. Experts and seasoned swimmers share their top tips so you can swim safer, stronger, and with more joy.
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Swim to the Beat
A Tempo Trainer can bring focus and rhythm to your stroke, as well as help you swim more mindfully, says…
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Stroke Counting: Why and How
It is time you stopped only measuring time and distance
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How to Choose Open Water Swimming Goggles
What are the differences between pool and open water goggles?
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Tune-up time – session 1
Get back to the pool for a refresh, reset and tune-up.
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Embrace the medley – session 2
Add other strokes to your training will enhance your strength, fitness and swimming ability.
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Mindful practice makes perfect
We need to change the way with think about what we do in the pool, says Total Immersion's Terry Laughlin
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To Eat or Not to Eat
During endurance exercise your body utilises two major fuel sources: carbohydrate and fat
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Back to the pool: How to make the most of your pools sessions
With limited pool time available, Keri-anne Payne explains how to make the most of your sessions
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Pool to open water
A guide to escaping the pool
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How can I speed up without losing my life to training?
Our resident Olympian answers your swimming questions
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5 goal setting tips to maximise your swim performance
Sports psychology consultant and active masters and open water swimmer, Helen Davis, looks at how to use goal setting techniques…
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How do I structure sessions to build pace?
Our resident Olympian answers your swimming questions
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Spring into action – recipe 1
The first of three snacks to fuel your swims
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Keep swimming longer
We don’t yet have an elixir for youth, but we can reduce the effects of ageing through the right dietary…
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Get ready to race – recipe 3
The last of three recipes to help you prepare for race day
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Flexibility matters
Changing your attitude to stretching could help you gain strength and improve swimming performance
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Eating disorders advice
Eating disorders can and do affect swimmers. In our Feb/Mar 2013 issue we look at this subject in detail. The…
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4.8km Training Session (~1.5 hrs)
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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Brighten up your swim training (by Dan Bullock)
Many open water swimmers complain how dull they find training. When you look at some of the training sets they…
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Take your training outside – week 3
Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans
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Nutty fruit cake
The second of three recovery cake recipes by Kathy Findlay
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As a 68-year-old, how can I prepare for a 1 or 2-mile swim?
Our resident Olympian answers your swimming questions
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Master the two-beat kick
The two-beat kick is the most efficient for virtually all distances and fitness levels in open water swimming, says Terry…
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Yoga and pilates – swimming’s secret weapons
Land training, and specifically yoga and pilates, can have a big impact on swim enjoyment and performance
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Tips and tricks for bilateral breathing
In open water swimming being able to breathe either side can help you with sighting (e.g. while swimming parallel to…
