
Protect your winter gains
Make sure your move back to open water in summer doesn’t undermine a winter’s worth of hard training
Make sure your move back to open water in summer doesn’t undermine a winter’s worth of hard training
To swim faster and race well in open water you need to develop pace versatility in training
Fiona Ford encourages open water swimmers to imitate masters swimmers’ training schedules
Whatever your distance, try one of these training sets from Swim Smooth certified coach Fiona Ford
Focusing on kick or pull can help refine your stroke
Someone asked us the other day, "how do I keep motivated for pool swimming?"
Water Slaves | Simon Griffiths | H2Open Editor | Thursday 04 October 2012
This is another set aimed at easing you back into the pool and chlorinated water after the summer outside. This set concentrates mainly on front crawl technique work. Nothing too strenuous whilst we acclimatise to the warm water once again for the winter season
This set includes some medley work (ie when you swim all four strokes in the order butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, frontcrawl) and a big kick set. An efficient kick is really important in swimming for body position and reducing drag
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs. Times and distances should be altered to match your current ability and fitness levels.