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.
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Saturday Swim Session: Grant Holicky’s 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.
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Saturday Swim Session: Swim Smooth’s Perfect Pyramid
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.
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Saturday Swim Session: John Wood’s Endurance Workout
This is a great session that develops specific endurance for triathletes and open water swimmers.
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COVID-19: How to Swim Train When The Pools Are Closed
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.
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Top 10 Gifts For Swimmers
Christmas is nearly here, if your loved ones are struggling for suggestions for a Christmas present for you pass this list of gifts on to them.
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Saturday Swim Session: The Threshold Set
Holding pace for a large number of reps, is always challenging and this session is no exception. You will reap the benefits of improved swimming threshold though, so the effort will be worth it. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
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Saturday Swim Session: Sprints & Stamina
Within this session I’ve included some longer reps for stamina and some shorter reps to build your sprint speed. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
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Clatters Chatter: First Swim Back
I’m going to go to the pool today, after I have finished my exam to relax myself and have a bit of enjoyment. The first…
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Week In Review – August 5th, 2019
The Week In Review is a collection of both what I’ve put on my websites and what I’ve enjoyed reading from other sites.
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