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 top-end speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Triathlon Plus Beginners Session 2
As you follow the programme you will find yourself swimming your 1,500m faster. Now whether that is a PB or not will depend on how fast you have swum in the past, but it will definitely be faster at the end of the 4 weeks than it is now. With this programme people improve on average nearly 2 minutes, with some people improving by over 10%.
View More Tuesday Training Plan: 4 weeks to a Faster 1500m with only two 2km per week (25m/50m Pool)
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that ability by progressing your fitness by completing reps of different distances at different intensities. The session gets tougher, as you work through it. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Olympic Tri Main Set 2iii
Repeated sprints will develop your VO2 max, but with minimal rest the training stimuli from a long set of sprints like this will also give your body a threshold training stimuli. Sessions like this are great for improving lactate tolerance and mental resilience. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Denis Cotterell’s 40x 50
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that ability by progressing the intensity as you work through the workout, but maintaining the Rest Interval (RI). The session gets tougher, as you work through it. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Sprint Tri Main Set 2ii
A common problem for triathletes is doing too much volume in the final lead up to an event. It is important to taper off your training prior to an event so you don’t arrive at the state line carrying residual fatigue. Within this session are aspects that simulate a triathlon or open water swim race with the increased pace at the start, and the over kick towards the end of the session, simulating the final push towards the swim exit. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, particularly Ironman 70.3 and Olympic distance triathletes, as well as other open-water swimmers in the final couple of weeks prior to their event.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Lance Watson’s Ironman 70.3 Taper Swim
As you triumphantly emerge from the waters of your Ironman Swim, the exhilaration of surpassing your previous records will propel you across the finish line.…
View More Thursday Training Plan: SwimStrong Ironman Blueprint – 24 week Ironman Swim PB Training Plan
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that ability by progressing your fitness by completing reps of different distances at different intensities. The session gets tougher, as you work through it. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Olympic Tri Main Set 2ii
Returning to the pool after a period of time off can be daunting, regardless of why you haven’t been swimming. Maybe you’ve been pregnant and have a young child, maybe you’ve been injured and haven’t been able to swim, or maybe your life has got in the way and you haven’t prioritised swimming for a wee while.
This session is perfect for master’s swimmers, although not specifically targeted for triathletes and open water swimmers this session will help sharpen the top-end swim speed.
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