Build the endurance, confidence, and open-water skills to conquer your 5 km Ruby Island challenge.
Are you ready to take on the iconic Ruby5 Swim in beautiful Lake Wanaka? 🏊♀️🏊♂️
Whether it’s your first 5 km open-water swim or you’re looking to improve your performance from previous years, the Ruby5 Lake Wanaka Swim Training Plan is designed to get you to the start line feeling confident, prepared, and ready to enjoy every stroke. 🌊
Even if you onyl swim Freestyle (or Front Crawl), there is still immense benefit to incorporating the other strokes into your training. By practising and developing the other strokes you will enhance both your feel for the water and the catch phase of you stroke. These are important skills to enhance as you advance your capabilities. This session is great for open-water swimmers and triathletes of all distances.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Mixing Up The Strokes
In the swim leg of a triathlon (or open water swim) there is often some variation in swim intensity. The start of the race will often start at a hectic pace, as people try and jostle for a good position or to get to the first turn buoy in a good position before settling into a more sustainable pace. the pace then picks up again towards the end of the swim. This set builds on that top-end speed you have to enhance your overall performance. This session is great for open-water swimmers and triathletes of all distances.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Intensity Mix Up
The ability to swim fast and repeat it consistently is important for triathletes and open-water swimmers. This session builds your top end speed with a moderate Rest Interval (RI). This session is great for open-water swimmers and triathletes of all distances.
View More Saturday Swim Session: 100’s for Speed
This session is used to assess your current swimming ability and set a benchmark time for future workouts. There are other methods for setting benchmark times and assessing ability but I use these workouts as an alternative for athletes that haven’t done much swimming lately.
View More Saturday Swim Session: T-Times for Beginners
Winter is the perfect time to build your swim base 🧱—without overloading your schedule or burning out. Whether you’re aiming for a Half Ironman or just want to sharpen your swim endurance, this 12-week swim-focused plan is crafted for busy triathletes who still want time for 🏃♀️🏃♂️ runs, 🚴♀️🚴♂️ rides, work, family, and a bit of downtime too.
View More Tuesday Training Plan: Busy Triathlete Winter Swim Base Training Plan (INTERMEDIATE 12 Week 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 at a fast pace that you can sustain. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Tour de Cure Session 3
This session sees a focus on sustaining your top end intensity over sets of 100m and 50m to develop your maximum aerobic capacity. This workout is of benefit to all swimmers (including triathletes and open water swimmers – especially short course triathletes).
View More Saturday Swim Session: Swim Speed Improver – Session 08
🏋️♀️🏋️♂️ Build Swim Strength with Coach Ray’s 24-Week Strength Training Plan! 🏊♀️🏊♂️
Looking to boost your swimming performance? 🐬 This 24-week gym-based strength plan is tailored for beginner and intermediate swimmers who want to level up their strength and power in the water. 💪
View More Tuesday Training Plan: Swimming Strength Training Plan (BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE 24 week Plan)
The ability to sustain a solid effort for a reasonably duration with shortish reps will build your threshold swimming ability. This workout is of benefit all swimmers (including triathletes and open water swimmers – especially short course triathletes).
View More Saturday Swim Session: Swim Speed Improver – Session 03