Want to get fitter and stronger for your swimming. This strength and conditioning programme requires standard gym equipment and can be done at almost any gym.
Designed for swimmers who are beginner/intermediate level of experience with strength and conditioning who are looking to develop your strength as you prepare you to COMPLETE YOUR event in 16 weeks time.
The Swim Fitness Builder (SFB) is an eight week training plan to build fitness for a swimmer currently confident swimming about 600-800m to be able to swim 1,600m confidently in a session. This is the second week of the training plan. I am providing the workouts from the training plan for FREE, through my website. If you’d like them as a training plan on TrainingPeaks, there is a link to purchase that towards the end of the article.
View More Saturday Swim Sessions: Week 2 Swim Fitness Builder
The Swim Fitness Builder (SFB) is an eight week training plan to build fitness for a swimmer currently confident swimming about 600-800m to be able to swim 1,600m confidently in a session. I am providing the workouts from the training plan for FREE, through my website. If you’d like them as a training plan on TrainingPeaks, there is a link to purchase that towards the end of the article.
View More Saturday Swim Sessions: Week 1 Swim Fitness Builder
As you improve your swimming during your winter base building, you will have accomplished something very special.
Designed for INTERMEDIATE Triathletes who are looking to improve their swimming during their base building phase and/or have limited time to train, the primary goal of this training plan is to prepare you to further develop your efficiency.
200m is an effective distance to build a combination of both threshold speed and endurance. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: T-Time 200’s
Your ability to sustain a fast pace is effectively determined by your Threshold pace. Make improvement in your threshold swimming pace and find yourself swimming faster for longer (assuming you have the prerequisite stamina). This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Threshold 100’s
Stamina can be built through completing longer reps but also but utilising extended warm ups. This session utilises both to build your endurance and stamina. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Enhance Your Stamina With Extended Warm Ups
You ability to sustain a fast pace is effectively determined by your Threshold pace. Make improvement in your threshold swimming pace and find yourself swimming faster for longer (assuming you have the prerequisite stamina). This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Building Threshold Pace with 100’s
Stamina is a key requirement of any distance swimmer. There are a number of ways to develop your stamina. The most common method is to practise swimming long, steady swims. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Building Your Stamina With Long, Steady Swimming
The ability to swim at and maintain your threshold pace is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. When large numbers of short reps with short rests are strung together your threshold swimming pace is developed, as is the case with this workout. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Building Speed and Threshold Pace