Over the coming 12 weeks, I will post a series of workouts building your swim fitness as you prepare for either Challenge Wanaka (18 Feb) or Ironman NZ (04 Mar).…
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Category: Swim Sessions
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.
Saturday Swim Session: Broken Sets
This session will develop your swimming speed and stamina concurrently by combining both components of fitness within one workout. Use them to swim faster in…
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How Fast Are You Now?
This is the eighth and final session as we have now built your fitness. Now it is time to retest you and compare with your original…
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800 Ways to Enhance Your Endurance
This is the seventh session as we build your fitness to a new 1,500m PB. Start with the first session and then work through doing each session…
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Test Yourself with a set of 15x 100m
This is the sixth session as we build your fitness to a new 1,500m PB. Start with the first session and then work through doing each session…
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Enhance Your Technique with This Drill Sequence
This is the fifth session as we build your fitness to a new 1,500m PB. Start with the first session and then work through doing each session…
View More Enhance Your Technique with This Drill SequenceSwim 300m Reps to Develop Your Stamina
This is the fourth session as we build your fitness to a new 1,500m PB. Start with the first session and then work through the second session and then…
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200’s to Enhance Your Threshold Speed
This is the third session as we build your fitness to a new 1,500m PB. Start with the first session and then work through the next session after three…
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Use Drills to help you Swim Qwiker
This is the second session as we build your fitness to a new 1,500m PB. Start with the previous session and then in three-four days time…
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Saturday Swim Sessions: 4 Weeks to a Faster 1,500m with only 4km per Week – Week 4
This is the final post out of a four-part series to improve your 1,500m swim time over 4 weeks with only 4km of swimming per week. The first one can be found here, the second here and the third can be found here. In each post, you will get two 2,000m to swim workouts. The sessions are best suited to doing on a Saturday and Wednesday or 3-4 days apart.
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