Saturday Swim Session: Broken 400’s
Broken 400’s can help you develop endurance capacity and will help you develop sustained speed whilst swimming.
Friday Fartlek Run: 2,000m/1,600m/1,200m/800m/400m
This session is great at developing your ability to sustain a maximal effort.
Wednesday Wind Trainer Session: 5/4/3/2/1min Hills
This session will enhance your leg strength and climbing ability.
How to Measure Your Training
Technology is evolving at a great pace. Heart Rate (HR) monitors are getting more features and are linking in with other training tools that can pick up GPS signals, foot pods that count the number of foot strikes and a…
Saturday Swim Session: Drills & Technique
This session is focused on enhancing your technique and get that improved prior to doing more fitness orientated sessions later in the season.
Friday Fartlek Run: Ross Creek Intervals
This session I did a number of times when I was living in Dunedin and running the fastest I have ever run (sub 34 minutes for 10km). I used to do this session running in one of my favourite locations…
Exercise Associated Muscle Cramp (EAMC)
There are a number of causes of cramp, but the most likely that we as runners, cyclist and swimmers are going to be dealing with is the phenomenon known as Exercise Associated Muscle Cramp (EAMC). There is often assumed to be…
Wednesday Wind Trainer Session: 4x 8min Threshold Intervals 2min RI
This session will enhance your ability to tolerate and clear lactic acid. This is a really great session to develop your race fitness and allows you to tolerate lactic acid. The short recovery, allows a drop in lactic acid, but not…
Saturday Swim Session: 200’s 100’s 50’s
This weeks Saturday Swim Sessions utilise the T-Time we determined a couple of weeks ago. Read more about T-Times here.
Friday Fartlek Run: Mona Fartlek
This session provides you with a regular and consistent recovery period after each easily attainable effort period. It can be done on the athletics track, the road or even off road.
Fitness Swimming Training Plan (Intermediate 8 week Plan) 3 swims per week
This programme will build your swimming fitness and develop your confidence and speed in the water even more. Designed for Beginner & Intermediate triathletes and swimmers who are looking to improve their swimming fitness.
Being 8 weeks in duration, this plan progresses through phases to build you to your peak performance.
Prior to using these plans, you should be able to complete swim sessions of 1,500m in distance.