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.

Tune-up time – session 4

Get back to the pool for a refresh, reset and tune-up.
Couch to 1 mile open water training plan

A training plan for those doing their first mile
Take your training outside – week 2

Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans
Last hurrah – session 2

The second of four end of season training sessions
Take your training outside (part 2) – week 1

Build endurance and improve your open water skills with our weekly training plans
Putting it back together

Tune up your technique before winter training starts in earnest
Finish fast and strong

Build your strength and fitness so you can power to the finish line
Lucky Number 7

Seven repeats and playing with rest will challenge without overwhelming you
Tune-up time – session 3

Get back to the pool for a refresh, reset and tune-up.
Season’s Beastings

Add some fun and challenge to your Christmas break
2.5 hour 8.5km Training Session

To complete this as written you should be capable of swimming 100m freestyle repeats of 90 seconds.
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
The Tech Endurance Session

A technical session to help with a return to pool swim fitness
Back to the open water: training session from South West Swim

An adaptable session that will focus on some key areas of your swimming technique (breathing, kick, catch and pull) without…
Paddle to perfection

Fine tune your catch using paddles
6km Swim Training Session (1.5-2 hours)

To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs. Times and distances should be…
Up the tempo

In a new series of articles, Fiona Ford looks at how to incorporate training tools into your swim sessions
Keep motivated in the pool

Someone asked us the other day, "how do I keep motivated for pool swimming?"
Pace it Out

These training sets from Fiona Ford will help you improve your pace judgement, a critical racing skill
Fine tune your catch

Use paddles to perfect your catch
Speed sets

Outdoor Swimmer founder Simon Griffiths shares a couple of his own training sessions
5.9km Swim Training session (~2 hrs)

To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs.
Take your training outside (part 2) – week 3

Build endurance and improve your open water skills with our weekly training plans
Push the pace

If you want to cope with tactical surges and changes of pace in a race you need to prepare for it in training
Take your training outside – week 4

Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans