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 1
Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans
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Last hurrah – session 3
The third of four end of season training sessions
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Take your training outside (part 2) – week 2
Build endurance and improve your open water skills with our weekly training plans
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Try these straightforward tubing sessions to improve your technique and keep you swim fit
These full body tubing workouts from Paul Fowler and Stefan Lawrence from 100% Tri are designed to keep you swim…
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The Shock To The System
This session will bite as requests to keep swimming slightly faster are countered by the body tiring,
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5km open water training plan
A training plan for those moving up to the 5k distance
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Simple exercises to keep you fit for swimming
Total Immersion swim coach and video analysis specialist James Ewart shares some straightforward exercises to help strengthen your core and…
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Winter training 1 – 1hr 3.5km
This set includes some medley work (ie when you swim all four strokes in the order butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, frontcrawl)…
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Get a Rhythm
How to use a Tempo Trainer to optimise your stroke rate for maximum speed
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Try this full-body stretching workout to keep you swim fit
Undertaking a little exercise each week can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and even help also to build your…
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Pilates for swimming: Increase efficiency, reduce drag and increase speed
Physiotherapist Darren Wigg explains how to use Swimming Specific Pilates (SSP) to swim more efficiently and reduce injury
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6.9km Session – about 2.5 hours
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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Back to Basics – Kick and Pull
Focusing on kick or pull can help refine your stroke
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The 00 Session
An easy to follow session for some good old fashioned distance
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Endless Learning – lesson 1
They say the camera doesn’t lie, but I wish it did.
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Tick tock, can you beat the clock?
This session adds in the excitement of a timer to keep you pushing hard
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Protect your winter gains
Make sure your move back to open water in summer doesn’t undermine a winter’s worth of hard training
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1hr 45m 4.6km Training Session
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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Winter training 2 – 1hr, 3km with torpedo drill
Water Slaves | Simon Griffiths | H2Open Editor | Thursday 04 October 2012This is another set aimed at easing you back…
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Pull it together
Develop your catch and pull using a pull buoy
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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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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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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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Take your training outside – week 3
Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans