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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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
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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…
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Paddle to perfection
Fine tune your catch using paddles
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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…
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Up the tempo
In a new series of articles, Fiona Ford looks at how to incorporate training tools into your swim sessions
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Keep motivated in the pool
Someone asked us the other day, "how do I keep motivated for pool swimming?"
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Pace it Out
These training sets from Fiona Ford will help you improve your pace judgement, a critical racing skill
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Fine tune your catch
Use paddles to perfect your catch
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Speed sets
Outdoor Swimmer founder Simon Griffiths shares a couple of his own training sessions
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5.9km Swim Training session (~2 hrs)
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs.
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Take your training outside (part 2) – week 3
Build endurance and improve your open water skills with our weekly training plans
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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
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Take your training outside – week 4
Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans
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6.5km Training Session (2+ hrs)
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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6.6km Training Session (2-2.5hrs)
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
