Including a mix of drills and a range of swimming strokes will help you develop your technique and feel for the water. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Margaret Cyphers’ Tapa Workout
Descending sets can provide both stamina and speed as you build your swimming fitness. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Margaret Cyphers’ Casserole Workout
This is based off a session put together by Grant Hackett’s coach as part of his mid-season build up. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Grant Holicky’s Actual Open Water Training Set for Christine Jennings
This is based off a session put together by Grant Holicky who specialised in coaching Open Water swimmers and triathletes. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Grant Holicky’s Open Water Training Set for Christine Jennings
This is based off a session put together by Grant Hackett’s coach as part of his mid-season build up. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Grant Hackett’s Actual Mid-Season Workout
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)
This is a steady endurance building session. This session has been designed for swimmers and triathletes returning to the pool who are wanting to further develop their endurance.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Swim Smooth’s Perfect Pyramid
This is a great session that develops specific endurance for triathletes and open water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: John Wood’s Endurance Workout
Currently here in New Zealand I’m reasonably isolated from the effects of COVID-19 with only 20 reported cases and my local pool is still open and operating. Unfortunately that isn’t the case for athletes all around the world I’m arranging Skype calls with my Northern Hemisphere triathletes and swimmers who I coach to put into place alternative plans for them. Here are my suggestions and recommendations for continuing to work on your swim fitness whilst your local pool is closed.
View More COVID-19: How to Swim Train When The Pools Are Closed
The 4 Weeks to a FASTER 1,500m swim plan is one of my most popular swim plans. It has been designed for the triathlete targeting an Olympic distance triathlon but has very limited time to train. The original version involves two swims per week, and these swims are limited to 2km a session. If you have limited training time available, this is the training plan for you.
View More Thursday Training Plan: 4 Weeks to a FASTER 1,500m