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Understanding pool training sessions
Being able to decipher the most commonly used terms and abbreviations in a pool session will take your training to the next level, says Jonathan Cowie.
If you don’t have a swim training background then the terms used in the training sessions on these pages might seem like a foreign language. But there is no need to be intimidated by training sessions.
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