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Guides, Training Plans, Tips and Tricks

Training and Technique

Deepwater

How to Overcome the Fear of Deep Water

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5 goal setting tips to maximise your swim performance

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How to Choose Open Water Swimming Goggles

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How to Stop Your Goggles from Steaming Up

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Do I Need a Wetsuit For Outdoor Swimming?

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Back to the open water: how to approach your return to swimming outdoors

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How to become a better swimmer when you can't go swimming

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Yoga to manage stress and anxiety for swimmers that can't swim at the moment

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A quick guide to pool training kit

Nutrition

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Santa snacks

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Mixed bean chilli

Weetabix Cake

Weetabix cake

Nutty Fruit Cake

Nutty fruit cake

Lemon Chia Seed Cake

Lemon chia seed cake

Breakfast Bars

Breakfast bars

Energy Brownie Balls

Energy brownie balls

Fig Balls

Fig and Tahini Energy Bites

Raw Brownies

Hemp protein recipes – 3

Training Sessions

10Km Training Plan

10km open water training plan

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Back to the open water: training session from South West Swim

Training Feb

Keep it simple

Training Speed Sets

Speed sets

Training Catch And Pull

Pull it together

Swimmer With Paddles

Fine tune your catch

Bilateral Breathing

Embrace the medley – session 4

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Embrace the medley – session 3

Backstroke

Embrace the medley – session 2

Coach Cassie

Our resident Olympian Cassandra Patten answers your training questions

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What are your tips for recovering after a marathon swim?

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How do I rectify a thumb-first hand entry?

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How do I structure sessions to build pace?

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Any tips on sighting? Sighting frequency/ navigating in general?

Bilateral Breathing

What are the best drills to practise bi-lateral breathing?

Swimmer On Start

I have just completed my first 1km. How should I work up to 2km?

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How do I draft properly in races and avoid getting kicked?

Breastroke

How can I improve my breaststroke so I can swim faster?

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How do I best structure my training for a 5k swim?