Each week I will load three Saturday Swim Session options up for you to do. Option A is for swimmers who are after a workout less than 2,000 metres. Option B is for swimmers who are after a workout between 2,000 and 3,000m and Option C will be greater than 3,000m.
The ability to swim at and maintain your threshold pace is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Building Speed With T-Time Sessions
This session is a great tool to determine your current level of fitness and use as a benchmark for planning of future training sessions. This is an alternate method for determining it, really great if you have limited time for this workout. I use the main version every four to six weeks with my athletes and this version for athletes starting out, or recommencing training after a good break.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Alternate T-Times
When you cross the finish line of your triathlon Swim, you will have swum faster than you have in previous events.
Designed for busy triathletes targeting an Olympic distance or ½ IM event who are looking to compete in an Olympic or ½ IM event, the primary goal of this training plan is to prepare you to Swim faster during YOUR event.
The ability to swim at and maintain your threshold pace is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their top end speed.The ability to swim at and maintain your threshold pace is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their top end speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Triathlon Plus’s Threshold Workout
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. Completing a number of consistent, steady reps will help build this endurance. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their top end speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Triathlon Plus’s Endurance Workout
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their top end speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Gale Bernhardt’s Endurance 5 Workout
This session builds the distance of each set and also builds the speed into the session, culminating with your fastest paces at the end of the session. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Strong 200s
Are you a regular fitness swimmer?
Do you struggle to find inspiration for a swim workout?
Due to a request to put together a year long training programme for a group of swimmers, I’m now launching Swim 365 to everyone else.
It might be you take the lead for a group of friends who swim together. Maybe you plan the training for a local masters group. Maybe you swim by yourself and need some inspiration for some workouts each week.
Each session will develop all round swimming fitness by improving aerobic efficiency, Distance Per Stroke (DPS), swim speed, lactate tolerance and/or threshold pace.
Dick Hannula is arguably one of the most successful swim coaches of all time. Under his leadership the Tacoma Swim Club won 24 consecutive state championships, a total of 323 swim meets with no loss!!! He was the US National Swim Coach multiple times between 1973 and 1985, as well as manager for both summer Olympics in 1984 & 1988. He has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and is credited with developing the modern swim paddle with holes in them to facilitate feel for the water. He has authored Coaching Swimming Successfully and edited The Swim Coaching Bible.
View More Periodising Swimming Successfully with Dick Hannula
This is a fun wee session based around everyones favourite (or maybe least favourite) Christmas Carol. With a focus on short reps and inclusion of plenty of drills. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: 12 Days of Christmas 🎄 🎅