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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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
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Training session – short distance
The first of three training sessions for short, medium and long-distance swimmers
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Get ready for open-water events with these simple training sessions
Whether you’re doing your first mile this year or stepping up to swimming’s marathon 10k distance, Fiona Ford has got…
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Take your training outside (part 2) – week 4
Build endurance and improve your open water skills with our weekly training plans
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Maximise your indoor training with this simple pool session
This technical session with steady intensity and options has something for everyone
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Testing Times
How to identify your threshold training paces for different distance swim challenges
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Keep it simple
A simple set of 400s to add to your weekly training programme for long term benefits
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Tune-up time – session 2
Get back to the pool for a refresh, reset and tune-up.
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10km Fast Split option
We all know long distance swim sets can be boring and there is a danger you become a plodder just…