Training Sessions
Improve your swimming with outdoor and indoor sessions tailored for all levels. Follow plans to build endurance, speed, and open water skills. Do targeted drills and sets for injury prevention, better technique, and race readiness. Experts share sessions for pool, river, and sea swimming, plus cross-training like yoga and weights.
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How to cut 5% off your mile time
If you're training for the Henley Mile or a 1 mile Great Swim event this year, you may be wondering…
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Endless learning – lesson 2
I am feeling quite smug. I’m back in the endless pool at Tri 'N' Swim Well and I had been…
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Train like a master
Fiona Ford encourages open water swimmers to imitate masters swimmers’ training schedules
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Take your pool training outdoors
Use your local open water venue to improve your fitness and open water skills
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Embrace the medley – session 4
Add other strokes to your training will enhance your strength, fitness and swimming ability.
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Last hurrah – session 1
The first of four end of season training sessions
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DIY 10k training camp
Create your own intensive staycation
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Embrace the medley – session 1
Add other strokes to your training will enhance your strength, fitness and swimming ability.
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Avoid the ‘one-speed’ trap
To swim faster and race well in open water you need to develop pace versatility in training
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Training session – long distance
The last in a series of training sessions tailored to short, medium and long-distance swimmers
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Last hurrah – session 4
The last of four end of season training sessions
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Training session – medium distance
The second of three training sessions tailored to short, medium and long-distance swimmers
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Tune-up time – session 4
Get back to the pool for a refresh, reset and tune-up.
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Couch to 1 mile open water training plan
A training plan for those doing their first mile
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Take your training outside – week 2
Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans
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Last hurrah – session 2
The second of four end of season training sessions
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Take your training outside (part 2) – week 1
Build endurance and improve your open water skills with our weekly training plans
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Putting it back together
Tune up your technique before winter training starts in earnest
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Finish fast and strong
Build your strength and fitness so you can power to the finish line
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Lucky Number 7
Seven repeats and playing with rest will challenge without overwhelming you
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Tune-up time – session 3
Get back to the pool for a refresh, reset and tune-up.
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Season’s Beastings
Add some fun and challenge to your Christmas break
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2.5 hour 8.5km Training Session
To complete this as written you should be capable of swimming 100m freestyle repeats of 90 seconds.
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Three sets for short, medium and long distance swimmers
Whatever your distance, try one of these training sets from Swim Smooth certified coach Fiona Ford
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The Tech Endurance Session
A technical session to help with a return to pool swim fitness